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In reply to the discussion: face it. There is a contingent on DU who love a shirtless Putin and are swooning [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)This place does get super-shitty at times, and sometimes it can get mean and ugly, too.
I stepped back for a little bit when people were getting so damn nasty about Hillary Clinton--it just got too vicious and mean. I voted for HRC in the primary and POTUS in the general, and I thought the vitriol here was stupid, childish and nasty. It looked like Free Republic through the looking glass--dumbass assholes carping at each other like stupid buffoons.
I figure you can't force people to have insight. If they want to be jerks, let them. At the end of the day, they've gotta live with their views, and explain them when it's revealed, as it will be, in time, that Pootie ain't an altruist--he's a KGB operative and the best at what he does. If Pootie had his way, we'd all be speaking Russian and he wouldn't have to endure the sham of elections every few years, where he trades off with his little puppet and pretends he has less power.
One thing Pootie can't control, and that's the march of time. He's getting older, like we all are.