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Dmitry Grozoubinski
@explaintrade.com

I don't love it either, but I'm not sure how you tell a man that he should let his only surviving son rot in prison to respect norms, institutions, and the rule of law, when the country you devoted your life to serving just pretty comprehensively voted they don't give a shit about any of that.

Sylvia de Mars
@sylviademars.me

You're right - so I guess I'm just stuck on "if we were going to stop playing by idiotic rules the other side hasn't followed in years, couldn't we have done it sooner and on more meaningful subjects?"

Dmitry Grozoubinski
@explaintrade.com

I mean, I think it's reasonable to ask him not to do this before the election in which the Democrats are running on "do not elect the openly corrupt oligarchs". Once America has said, "no, we love that actually..."

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Sylvia de Mars
@sylviademars.me

Like I said, I get where you're coming from, but the whole thing just leaves me despondent about the feckless state of the Dems, which I think is compatible with "sure, whatever". They're gonna struggle with a moral superiority line forever and have nothing to show for it.