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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Aug 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted David Klion

    You may laugh but a love of Franco & Latin American strongmen made a surprising number of conservatives fluent in Spanish in 1950s and 1960s.https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1424037274661097473 …

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    David KlionVerified account @DavidKlion
    It would really own the libs if conservatives all committed to attaining proficiency in the Magyar language, with its non-Indo-European vocabulary, 18 grammatical cases, vowel harmony, and 4-tiered hierarchy of politeness.
    6:00 AM - 8 Aug 2021
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      2. Sarah Weinman‏Verified account @sarahw 8 Aug 2021
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        WFB was fluent long before then!

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Aug 2021
        Replying to @sarahw

        Because his dad wanted to be feudal lord in (pre-revolutionary) Mexico. So, same thing, really.

        0 replies 1 retweet 23 likes
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      2. Andy JB‏ @andrewbloomberg 8 Aug 2021
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        *15 minutes into Rod’s first Magyar class* “While Orban’s policies provide a path forward for the West, that shouldn’t blind us to the wisdom of Emperor Joseph II’s plan to enforce German as the language of education and governance”

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      3. Bryan Boone  🇺🇦 ☭  👑‏ @BryanBoyceBoone 8 Aug 2021
        Replying to @andrewbloomberg @HeerJeet

        funny thing is, at the time, Hungarians were also the arch-conservatives, making the Austrians look damn near progressive by comparison.

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      1. problematic letterboxd account‏ @MenshevikM 8 Aug 2021
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        yeah but Spanish genuinely isn't that hard, particularly for English speakers, and it's already useful in North America for other reasons

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      2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 8 Aug 2021
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        yeah but for an English speaker learning Spanish is low hanging fruit compared to Magyar. The first is renting the libs, the second is genuinely owning.

        6 replies 0 retweets 54 likes
      3. BJeanyB‏ @BJeanyB 8 Aug 2021
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        I’ll wait.

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      1. Flother‏ @Flother2 8 Aug 2021
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        My mom's cousin married a man from Spain in the '60s and she said at the wedding her boss kept saying "I can't believe it, it's like she's marrying a Puerto Rican!"

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      1. LIBS OF THICCTOK  🇺🇦 SCHOOL BONDS ETF‏ @LeagueTruth 8 Aug 2021
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        I had a far-right great-grandfather who enjoyed travel to Spain quite a bit.

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      1. Ray Suarez‏Verified account @RaySuarezNews 8 Aug 2021
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        To read Ortega y Gasset in the original tongue?

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