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Edwcraig

(291 posts) Sat May 9, 2020, 02:07 PM May 2020

10 Easy Steps to Become a Dictator

Step 1. Destroy the free press.
Step 2. The rest is easy.

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10 Easy Steps to Become a Dictator (Original Post) Edwcraig May 2020 OP

A guy that the right would label a communist snowflake said: SCantiGOP May 2020 #1

Not THAT easy Shermann May 2020 #2

SCantiGOP

(13,871 posts)

1. A guy that the right would label a communist snowflake said:

Reply to Edwcraig (Original post)

Sat May 9, 2020, 02:12 PM

May 2020

(paraphrase): If given a choice between a functioning government with no free press, or a free press without a government, I would in all cases choose the free press.

--Thomas Jefferson

There is a reason despots have to destroy their free press, since the first thing they have to do is convince the masses that their opponents are lying. Only a free press can call them out on that.

Shermann

(7,423 posts)

2. Not THAT easy

Reply to Edwcraig (Original post)

Sat May 9, 2020, 04:42 PM

May 2020

You have to outmaneuver all the other dictator wannabes.

So I do give Trump credit for that.

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