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Sounds to me like the best criminals become nations.

• toss1 4y ago
  Yup, Russia, China, North Korea, all authoritarian states
  • Earw0rm 4y ago
    Winners write the history books. Real winners write the law books. Whether that's European colonial settlers, or William of Normandy. (Not known as "William the Negotiator", or "William the all-around nice guy"). Descendants of the local warlords he installed still own huge (well, by British standards, the entire country isn't much bigger than New York State) tracts of land, a thousand years later.
    • toss1 4y ago
      Are you trying to somehow claim that the well-established fact that the Russian govt is indistinguishable from the Russian Mob, or that North Korea is not counterfeiting currency, running drugs, and hacking networks for currency, all indistinguishable from a criminal gang, and definitely not the purview of legitimate governments?
• JPLeRouzic 4y ago
  In linguistics they say that the difference between a dialect and a language is that a language is a dialect with an army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...