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orwell

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7. Make no mistake...

Reply to AlexSFCA (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 28, 2022, 01:21 PM

Feb 2022

...ordinary Russians supported this monster, just as ordinary Americans support Orange Shitler. There are some Russians that see him as a monster, but many see him as the protector of the Russian culture. In their eyes, he "Made Russia Great Again".

Much of this is due to relentless state propaganda, but some is due to the human desire to be dominant and to respect patriarchal alpha male characteristics.

It is a sickness borne of 10's of thousands of years of patriarchal dominance...

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