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Beartracks

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6. knr

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Sun May 7, 2023, 03:35 PM

May 2023

"We treat political corruption as unequivocally bad, as we do murder and other violent crimes. We don’t waste time quoting experts telling us that bribery and homicide are wrong. We proceed from the premise that they are. Yet when it comes to Trump, we impose the 'neutral observer' standard to an actual attempt to end our democracy?"

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