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spooky3

(34,452 posts)
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 12:35 AM Mar 2022

A good question from Ayman Moyheldin (MSNBC):

“At some point when this war is over, we will have to do a serious academic-level research analysis into why and how American reality tv gave us an anti-democratic misogynistic leader while Ukraine's reality tv gave it Volodymyr Zelenskyy.“


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Maraya1969

(22,480 posts)
1. Zelensky was on Dancing with the Stars. TFG - The Apprentice where the most famous words were
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 12:43 AM
Mar 2022

You're fired"

One is hostile and cutthroat and the other is fun

raging moderate

(4,305 posts)
3. Zelenskyy also has a law degree and started his own film production company.
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 02:01 AM
Mar 2022

He won these achievements on his own, without the constant funding and maneuvering of a rich father.

ancianita

(36,055 posts)
4. The answers wouldn't lie with the shows but with the audiences. Ours never lived near a dictatorship
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 02:07 AM
Mar 2022

But that's what different locations and histories produce -- different people's ideas of freedom, democracy, future generations, and what's worth fighting for. When a dictatorship won't let a neighbor live and let live, the dictatorship is a danger to everyone else, too. (Which is why China's totalitarian dictatorship is so much more a danger to the world -- it lives and lets live, but instead, cuts deals and controls markets first, dictates terms later.)

Cha

(297,211 posts)
6. Rt TY & our so called "leader"
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 03:24 AM
Mar 2022

was "leading" our Country into teh abyss while sitting on Vlad Putin's lap.

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