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Comment Re:nice to live in a dictatorship (Score 0, Flamebait) 282

That straw will be broken the next time a republican loses an election and decides they're unhappy with the result.
It'll need to be a less feckless, more organised one than the current crop of halfwits running that giant shitshow though.
In the meantime, mandating pollution limits is an entirely uncontroversial thing that governments do all over the world without people going on about "freedom" like a bunch of children.

Comment Re:Exemption after exemption... (Score 4, Insightful) 66

Those laws are not there for your benefit.
Copyright laws are for the benefit of the vast corporations that pay for them.

What I remember about Obama's healthcare laws was how he tried to make healthcare better and cheaper for Americans and the republicans hated it, so he decided to negotiate something they could live with, which is how you wound up with the mess you have now.

Comment Re:too little too late (Score 1) 106

In 1949 the Chinese decided that the brutal dictator who had run bits of their country with help from America was not what they wanted to continue with, and they forced the corrupt Kuomintang out.
Eventually the people of Taiwan managed to get themselves free of the brutal dictatorship too, but not before several tens of thousands of them have been murdered.
Taiwan is not taking over in mainland China any time soon.

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