I enjoyed your piece. You rightly put it that Meless has no match for blatant lies and distortion of the truth. But we are all accustomed to such lies that most of us remain nonchalant to react to periodic TPLF destructive propaganda.

Having said that I appreciate your efforts to enrich our language by creating equivalent Amharic word and phrases.

Brainwash...........................Aemro mateb
hypnotize...........................sine libona mesleb
rubber-stump parliament.......plastic parliama[mikir bet]

I find it encouraging.