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Re:Germany to ban anonymous SIM cards[German] by rfrey on Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:06AM (#11541382)
Societies pass from peaceable to terrifying all the time, and it generally happens pretty quickly. Nobody ever seems to see it coming, although it's always obvious in hindsight to armchair analysts.

It hasn't happened in one of the big powers in awhile, but 71 years isn't that long. It wouldn't be paradise the day before an election and hell the day after, but you never know what event will be pivotal. Until armchair time.

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Re:Germany to ban anonymous SIM cards[German] by chillingeffect on Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:42AM (#11541605)
Yup. Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur. Four genocides since WWII.

People look up to Germany. Germany setting themselves up for disaster will make other people think they're somehow safe.

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Re:Germany to ban anonymous SIM cards[German] by rwmj on Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:31AM (#11541532)
Russia being a good example.
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Re:Germany to ban anonymous SIM cards[German] by icebraining on Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:37AM (#11541574)
When was the transition? I don't remember Russia ever being a peaceable society.
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Re:Germany to ban anonymous SIM cards[German] by creshal on Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:51AM (#11541663)
1989. Most of the west expected communism to fall eventually, but nobody expected it to end as it did, when it did.
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