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regarding historical personages and events, it's not like I'm not used to having eyes opened, but this is more of that. I recall how this dude was presented to us as a clean cut smarty - not that I believed/liked - but he turns out to be whiny and put-upon with everybody against him.
And yet sounds like now - "detained without trials" and Condo being testy giving KRASNOV now ammunition for getting her fired from her current position.
As for the wider scope of YouTubes - and NOT talking about AI here! - few if any historical figures are left unturned, not only the ones from our pathetic academic versions who used to be my heroes. Things from my memory of how some were portrayed in the news: The DULLES brothers who were said to be upper crust rulers, now known to be purveyors of imperialistic ruthlessness and involved in assassinations and for sure in the cover-up. How the FDR entire crew worked against TRUMAN to tell him to do things how FDR would until he fired all of them. On and on, scarcely anybody from ancient times to now comes across as barely decent, not to mention dastardly. And as for Hollywood, all the biggest stars dirty and false.
Just saying that my whole adulthood was a growing exercise in discovery of my lack of street smarts, and now extrapolating to the Real World as opposed to how we grew up to Stay Stupid.
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