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sjwpv
8y ago
>Politicians, super rich people, and companies that disregard/disrespect the law rarely end up with long prison sentences (or any meaningful punishment). That's something we've got to fix. But just because that happens, it
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8y ago
By "bad law" I meant laws with absolutely no public support, not laws which are "objectively bad" (such thing made doesn't make sense)
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8y ago
That's because there's a big amount of people, myself included, who feel like drug prohibition is good, all things considered. Not because "editing" the law is hard. (I am not American).
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8y ago
>Austria and Switzerland for instance push for this. This is the kind of law that's only pushed by wealthy countries like Germany or the UK. I live in a shithole which would never get a law like this. Getting rubbish like this, net
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8y ago
>They only have to win once, you have to be vigilant and win every single time The law is not a blockchain ledger. If bad law gets in, it can also get removed later.
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8y ago
Have you read it? It would mean, for example, the end of OpenWrt. What about the rest of recent terrible regulations and laws?
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8y ago
The EU becomes a worse and worse idea every year. It was good while it lasted. This will be the first year I vote for an anti-EU party locally. It pains me, but it's been enough already :/
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8y ago
>Sovereign countries are free to set their tax rate to 0 in order to attract companies there. Then those companies should only sell products and services in those countries. Otherwise, something should be done about it. I'm not sayi
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8y ago
I think you're taking it too literally. What I mean is that, as an example, if they say $POLITICAL_FIGURE has said this or that, I will suspect they're taking the words out of context, but I am not going to find and watch the enti
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8y ago
To tell you the truth I don't have time, energy or knowledge to find the sources of all news and research I see and investigate and assess the credibility of them, so I simply don't believe anything. This problem has existed since
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8y ago
>The mainstream media misled me about Iraq, therefore I'm going to get my information from Facebook articles posted by Russian intelligence! There's the middle ground of simply not believing anything coming from either the mass
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8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension