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Re:US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anony... by tpoacher on Saturday January 02, 2021 @07:42AM (#25612437)
Exactly! This kind of legislature is pointless. Either fix everything at once, or don't. There's zero point in making small incremental changes that do not benefit everyone, and still allow a proportion of thugs to get away with it. It is obviously a political stunt by a government desperate to score some 'wins' on its way out.
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Re:US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anony... by namdnay on Saturday January 02, 2021 @08:25AM (#25612685)
> Either fix everything at once, or don't. There's zero point in making small incremental changes that do not benefit everyone

?! That’s an interesting perspective, especially on a software development forum :)

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Re:US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anony... by js8 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @07:53AM (#25612511)
Most (new) laws have loopholes. The solution is to close the loopholes, not abandon laws.
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Re:US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anony... by cerebellum42 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @09:30AM (#25613030)
> Either fix everything at once, or don't. There's zero point in making small incremental changes that do not benefit everyone

Have you ever had any look at how laws actually get passed in the US and pretty much any country with some sort of democratically legitimized government?

Your demand in any of these systems would simply lead to no laws getting passed at all, most of the time, total legislative gridlock. Legislature is an incremental process by nature, and especially so in systems of government where the interests of more than one side are represented, so compromises have to be made at every step of the way.

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Re:US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anony... by tpoacher on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:50PM (#25616392)
For what it's worth, this was supposed to be an "agreement onto absurdity" satirical response, to point out the flaw of following parent's reasoning to its natural conclusion.

Though, given people didn't pick up on the sarcasm, at the very least I'm glad it's at least being downvoted instead of upvoted!

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Re:US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anony... by cerebellum42 on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:23PM (#25639114)
Huh, never would have guessed, I suppose sarcasm really doesn't translate well in text form. There are just too many actual crazy viewpoints around to be sure which ones are actually just satirical/sarcastic.
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