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    From asfddgfs@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 6 03:27:44 2025
    Tear down the Great Wall and build a new one.

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  • From A. Filip@21:1/5 to asfddgfs on Thu Feb 6 10:57:09 2025
    asfddgfs <sdf@dfgg.dfgdfg> wrote:
    Tear down the Great Wall and build a new one.

    Trump builds Great USA Fence, doesn't he?
    Isn't it a cheaper version?

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    A. Filip
    | Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are
    | any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. (Howard Aiken)

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 7 15:32:18 2025
    Trump certainly has the right idea to minimize immigration, legal and
    illegal.
    Whether the US has the resource to build an effective border wall, great
    or not, is another issue.

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to ltlee1@hotmail.com on Fri Feb 7 17:40:46 2025
    In article <384266ebbea8f9434ebb3bced16ce2f3@www.novabbs.com>,
    ltlee1 <ltlee1@hotmail.com> wrote:
    Trump certainly has the right idea to minimize immigration, legal and >illegal.

    He has to work with Congress though. He should not be allowed to be a dictator.

    Whether the US has the resource to build an effective border wall, great
    or not, is another issue.

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 8 14:57:06 2025
    When is a dictator a bad dictator is a matter of opinion. As for
    division of power, China has division of power since Sui.

    Hilter's dictatorship was welcomed by the Germans. Not many at that time considered a bad dictator. Concerning the US, Barbara W Tuchman had
    suggested long ago that US presidency should be removed.

    Of course, Hilter and his Germany did not last and the US is still the
    world power. So the issue is not how a leader exercise his power but the
    policy push forward and results achieved by his power.

    Anyway, democracy is about the people, not how top leaders exercising
    their power.
    America's problem is that people are mostly out of the loop except
    ritualistic voting.

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  • From A. Filip@21:1/5 to ltlee1@hotmail.com on Sat Feb 8 16:29:08 2025
    ltlee1@hotmail.com (ltlee1) wrote:
    When is a dictator a bad dictator is a matter of opinion. As for
    division of power, China has division of power since Sui.

    Hilter's dictatorship was welcomed by the Germans. Not many at that time considered a bad dictator. Concerning the US, Barbara W Tuchman had
    suggested long ago that US presidency should be removed.

    Of course, Hilter and his Germany did not last and the US is still the
    world power. So the issue is not how a leader exercise his power but the policy push forward and results achieved by his power.

    Anyway, democracy is about the people, not how top leaders exercising
    their power.
    America's problem is that people are mostly out of the loop except ritualistic voting.

    Is it usually ritualistic? IMHO yes in big part.
    IMHO "Divide (voters) and rule" is a high art working *usually* .
    Be afraid of voters enraged enough to (widely) unite.
    <irony> Opinions are as farts. Only your own smell good. </irony>

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tuck
    In 1966, […] Tuck made the now notorious (election) statement,
    "The people have spoken, the bastards."[13]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule

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    A. Filip
    | Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else --
    | unless it is an enemy. (Albert Einstein)

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