China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit

Re:China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit by yorwba on Sunday February 25, 2018 @08:11AM (#16458754)

The problem with dictators is not that they are all bad for their countries, it's that replacing a bad dictator is too difficult.

If Linus were bad at his job, you'd only have to find someone better and start pulling your kernel source from them. No civil war necessary.

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Re:China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit by barrkel on Sunday February 25, 2018 @08:15AM (#16458776)

It's not so simple - there are implicit institutions in the network of who knows who, and who makes decisions that get executed, vs just having opinions. The revolution would be in the form of a fork that would need to fight for attention, money, allies, etc. - not wholly unlike a real revolution.

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Re:China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit by devgrammy on Sunday February 25, 2018 @09:41AM (#16459145)

that's a matter of 'forking' resource usage... For a nation-state level, it's going to be a lot dirtier (defaming, violence, and possible civil war)...

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