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I eat it whether people are watching or not. Also, I always eat the garnishes meant to be decorative. And shrimp tails. I eat them. — PolitiTweet.org

Food you're eating falls on the floor. No one is watching. Do you pick it up and eat it?

Posted April 1, 2022

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Russian Embassy in USA @benjaminwittes

@ArmUkraineNow Yes the context makes it worse. Think of Kim Philby congratulating himself that while many people of his acquaintance abandoned the Soviet cause because of Stalin’s excesses, he never lost faith. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 1, 2022

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Russian Embassy in USA @benjaminwittes

@wvcbxl @eve_gaumond informs me that the phrase is almost certainly not in French an echo of an embarrassed euphemism for Stalin’s greatest crimes. So I think the issue here is that @reuters translated it in a fashion that maps GP’s words onto this historical echo. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 1, 2022