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Re:Wikipedia blocked in Turkey by sremani on Saturday April 29, 2017 @11:45AM (#14227070)
Every strongman is not a hitler, mao or stalin. Especially, when they come through with largely "free" elections.

Abuse of power as President is different from putting 6 million people in gas chambers and marching around and being responsible for deaths to 10s of millions of people.

Lets have some perspective here, Please!

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Re:Wikipedia blocked in Turkey by PythonicAlpha on Saturday April 29, 2017 @11:53AM (#14227112)
Hitler came out of largely "free" elections.

I don't think, that every despot is similar to Hitler, but still it is a despot.

BTW: How do you recognize a despot: He behaves like one. Just open your eyes!

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Re:Wikipedia blocked in Turkey by nickpeterson on Saturday April 29, 2017 @01:15PM (#14227567)
To be fair, the issue here is that he seemed to be an undesirable despot. A good despot is actually better than a democracy, but they are just terribly risky every regime change. And a bad despot is.. well, terrible.
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