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Pete Schult's avatar

> (What emoji would Putin use in the “What’s this for?” box for “Russian plant”? Maybe just a plant. He’s probably literal that way.)

Tumbleweeds are Russian thistles, so a tumbleweed emoji would fit a Russian plant that everyone would've sworn was American.

On convergence of opinion & Dr King's supposedly having Hanoi-generated opinions: I'm told that in the '70s, the FBI wanted to get librarians to let the Bureau know whenever anyone with an "Eastern European" sounding name asked for certain types of material. Every librarian they approached refused to participate, so naturally the FBI investigated to try to find their links to the USSR. No luck. The only link common to the librarians was membership in the American Library Association: the librarians were united by a core value of protecting patron privacy.

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Kay-El's avatar

I find the Pelosi comment to be a weird take. Anyone in the US protesting the war in Gaza is well within their right to do so without being labeled a Putin stooge (we know how protestors are treated in Russia).

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