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“The bastards, they do know and not only do they know, they don’t see anything wrong with it.”
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The speaker condemns unnamed people for knowing about something and still seeing no problem with it. The repeated “they do know” stresses that this is not ignorance. The contrast between their awareness and their lack of concern expresses strong moral disapproval.
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