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B1FF_PSUVM on July 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thaddeus Kosciusko

I enjoy that quip a lot, but some spoilsport wrote up that it was actually a translation mishap in the interview, and he was referring to the May 1968 insurrection (just a few years past at the time).

Rats.

chewz on July 12, 2019 [–]

Thanks for the input.

I meant that US Democracy is still younger then Commonwealth political system was when it had started to turn into anarchy and had been abused by plutocracy and foreign powers.

So Americans beware of Russia meddling in your elections... We had been there in XVIII century.. :-)

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