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It's really hard to fight a tyrant when half of your people cheer for him. Institutions can only go so far. I guess we're at the mercy of all those naive happ
by yongjik 2y ago
It's really hard to fight a tyrant when half of your people cheer for him. Institutions can only go so far.
I guess we're at the mercy of all those naive happy people who allegedly voted D out due to the price of eggs. Sooner or later they'll get angry over the price of eggs ... or maybe they'll never do, and eggs were just a convenient excuse. We'll see.
- rich_sasha 2y agoCommunism in Poland fell, ultimately, over meat price increases. None of that freedom of speech nonsense. And it was overthrown by the "proletariat", who was not only the social group keeping them in power all along, but also the social group whose standard of living was catapulted into the 20th century by the very Communists they ousted. Up from, dunno, 17th century serfdom...