Reposted by Real Mel Valentin
The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.
Real Mel Valentin
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I'm here, I'm there, I'm everywhere. Writer-for-hire. SF-based film critic (Cinapse, Screen Anarchy, That Shelf). Pragmatic progressive.
![See, e.g., Tr. 82:1-4 (Aug. 17) ("Honestly, my heart kind of dropped a little bit. I was really just in -initially I was just kind of shocked that it was even posted and then I was just kind of in disbelief that my name was attached to something like that."); id. at 83:3-11 ("it was honestly kind of embarrassing," "humiliating," "sad,' "life was cruel" and Spears "felt a little helpless"); id. at 88:11-14 (being called names and heckled made Spears feel "really just hurt" and it was "not a good feeling to have"); id., 87:20-24 (Spears was "heckled" and told that he was "killer" and a "murderer" who "should be in jail"); id. at 89:16-19 (at the second game after the Article was published, Spears encountered "the same thing [he] experienced the first game," which was "a lot of heckling; people saying the same mean things to you; derogatory remarks"); id. at 89:21 (he felt "the same way" at the second game as he did the first game, "[it sucked" and was 'not feeling"); id. 90:16-23 ("fraternity dudes" recognized him and were "screaming at [him] that [he was] a killer in public on The Strip"); id. at 91:15-16 (at the third game after the Article was published, "people [were] just heckling, saying mean remarks"); id. at 93:15-21 (Spears testifying that "after everything that happened[, he] was just really unfocused and... was struggling a little bit in school which is normally unusual for [him] and [he] ended up dropping out of [one] class" after a "tough" semester); id. at 100:8-10 (Spears felt like there was a "spotlight on [him] and it wasn't a good one at the time" and that "it never goes away").
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