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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by vkou on Sunday February 06, 2022 @02:23AM (#30230252)
> Remember who won the elections after the overthrows of Mubarak, the Shah, and the Tsar.

A mostly liberal-democratic provisional government that was violently overthrown eight months later by a Bolshevik coup because it refused to deal with the same problems (war and famine) that caused the Tsar to be overthrown?

Have we all forgotten the February revolution..?

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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by vkazanov on Sunday February 06, 2022 @03:26AM (#30230503)
That's a very interesting definition of "liberal"! They were about as liberal as the british parliament at the time, and that I cannot call liberal in any sense of the word.

And they did lose it in no time, yes

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