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 You guys in Spain are generally very nice and kind people but you have a problem:
You do not understand that everything you are and everything you have is thanks to one man by the name of Francisco Franco, who also made two grave mistakes. It is not thanks to your hippie, artist, progressive, engineer parents and grandparents. And definitelly not thanks to the West who "saved" you from Franco, and not thanks to USSR and russians and Masha And The Bear cartoon whom your parents and even you loved so much even just a few years ago. Most definitely not thanks to women. 
Franco provided safety, wisdom, morality and as a result prosperity to spanish people, who, as most spoiled children do, just played naughty and did not appreciate it. Franco's mistakes were two:
1. Treated the naughty children like still his children. He became soft. He must have sent the freedom loving hippies to their dreamland USA to live in "black and spanish communities" or another dreamland USSR to live in any place they desire.
2. Centralized too much of everything into himself, rewarded the undeserving spaniards with his own achievements, and failed to leave a leader stronger, smarter, better after he left.
And so, spaniards during his rule lived like Hunter Biden in his youth, and the ones in their teens and 20s now, like Hunter now - a laughed at messed up shadow of his good looks from his spoiled youth. 
 Just ignore all my recent overchallenging posts delivered without loving kindness. This is the only one that matters: nostr:nevent1qqsps9h2s2yt3qemll0qsz0xfc3hfh5m5vjhrx5uzn8ftm9p0q307vspz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcpzqdrsakhr3uyapj327w6g8gp39hwh82sswhyfutnewaew85lcgq5kqvzqqqqqqygnzg3l