Hello, world: this is WikiTribune

Re:Hello, world: this is WikiTribune by Izkata on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:56AM (#15814114)

> And he also consolidated his base by showing that the other side will oppose what Trump's side considers fighting terrorism by any means, including legal tactics that look very questionable to a common person, like arguments "if other person did it, it is legal, but if Trump does it, it's illegal".

He did it even better than you're saying, there's a missing piece that's almost never mentioned: The list of countries in the travel ban were identified in 2015 and early 2016 during the Obama administration, and already had restrictions due to being the most likely sources of terrorism.

Inconvenient truths like that are something I'd be concerned about being kept off of something like WikiTribune by squatters.

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Re:Hello, world: this is WikiTribune by snowwrestler on Thursday November 30, 2017 @12:53PM (#15817810)

Everybody already knows that, so it's hardly inconvenient.

If you're going to go back and rest your argument on what the Obama administration did, then you still have to explain why Trump needed to do what he tried to do.

Calling back to the Obama adminstration's actions makes it harder, not easier to justify Trump's EO. You have to explain why the Obama administration's actions were insufficient--which Trump staff did not even try to do. They just asserted that he had the authority to do it, regardless of any proof it was necessary.

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