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Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by mtberatwork on Sunday November 20, 2016 @05:02PM (#13001522)
This is the playbook of virtually every Eastern European nation. Achieve power through demagoguery, enrich self and loyalists once in power. Rinse and repeat.
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Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by masklinn on Monday November 21, 2016 @03:50AM (#13004047)
> This is the playbook of virtually every Eastern European nation.

Or pretty much every "business strongman"[0] third-world regime really, Trevor Noah had a bit comparing Trump to South Africa's Jacob Zuma, it was less funny and more uncanny to see the parallels.

And then things get dreadful when you realise a "graft and cronyism" Trump presidency is starting to look like a best-case scenario given his campaign statements and cabinet appointments.

[0] as opposed to "military strongman"

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