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Originally Posted by roachboy
putin is not good. not good at all. he is obviously using the bush model in exploiting fears about security conceens, but is going much much further in the centralization of power. as far as the dynamic authoritarianism/"terrorist" as pretext is concerned, so far he is about the worst scenario.
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Dude, you are giving Bush WAYYYY too much credit. People have been using the "give me all the power and I will protect you" line before America was settled - the first time. Bush and Putin are just some of the new member to the club who's members exploits tragedies and security concerns to grab power.
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Originally Posted by Norseman on another forum:
"Yeah, the problem with the world is the stupid people are all cocksure of themselves and the intellectuals are full of doubt."
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