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To: epicure who wrote (486676)	2/20/2022 12:07:55 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541130

False Equivalency: Your response was exactly the one I was going to make i.e. yes many of our presidents have done outrageous things that killed people, Viet Nam, Chile, Middle East, Central and South America, etc. But having said that, and as bad as they were, still Putin is much worse, and like pornography, hard to explain, but you know it when you see it. <<Message #486676 from epicure at 2/20/2022 12:01:09 AM Look, I don't know what kind of scale you're using- yes, governments tend to do similar things to control other countries, but Putin of the KGB, Mr. Slithery killer and kingpin of graft is very little like our presidents of recent years- although the effete coward Trump would have liked to be Putin, he simply doesn't have the balls- nor could he (probably) get away with the kind of crime Putin commits (one hopes) since this country is (sort of) a democracy while Russia is definitely a oligarchy and a totalitarian state in which the much of the GDP is now black market goods. I realize false equivalencies are all the rage right now, but this is just stupid. Putin isn't insane, like Idi Amin or Pol Pot- but he'd be just as willing to clog a dam with bodies or kill however many people he needed to. This is not the way most US presidents behave- though, again, Trump is certainly one US president who probably had wet dreams about being Putin- but that's just one more thing that makes Trump an aberrant freak themoscowtimes.com