So, is this a good thing or a bad thing or more of the same?
I would suspect somewhere between the latter two if this reflects croneyism and entrenchment of a movement that is perhaps only freedom facing at face value.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
Putin is well respected in Russia. There are people who, if Putin said that the sun would rise in the North tomorrow, they'd look North for the sun to appear. And then, when it appeared in the East, as usual, they'd assume that they'd gotten their directions mixed up and that what they thought was East was really North.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams