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As much a tough guy as Trump likes to portray, he’s actually quite agreeable to a fault, when it comes to pleasing his [[friend]]s, partners, and even critics. The latest performance gives a deliberately schlocky ‘bow out’ to stage left while leaving his duped audience beaming effusively with dull-eyed stares of counterfeit triumph.}}

As much a tough guy as Trump likes to portray, he’s actually quite agreeable to a fault, when it comes to pleasing his [[friend]]s, partners, and even critics. The latest performance gives a deliberately schlocky ‘bow out’ to stage left while leaving his duped audience beaming effusively with dull-eyed stares of counterfeit triumph.}}

:::There are people who think that having an authoritarian, corrupt, and imperialistic country which kills its political opponents is worth the price if it makes homosexuality somewhat less prevalent in society (Russia has gay clubs/saunas in Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc.).  And they are willing to look the other way when it comes to war crimes in such an imperialistic power. In my view and in the view of most Westerners, that is too high a price to have a somewhat lower rate of homosexuality in a society.  

:::There are people who think that having an authoritarian, corrupt, and imperialistic country which kills its political opponents is worth the price if it makes homosexuality somewhat less prevalent in society (Russia has gay clubs/saunas in Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc.).  And they are willing to look the other way when it comes to war crimes in such an imperialistic power. In my view and in the view of most Westerners, that is too high a price to have a somewhat lower rate of homosexuality in a society.