The Internet As Govt Self Suicide Device
juan
juan.g71 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 11:25:04 PDT 2016
On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 18:05:56 +0000 (UTC)
jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Gov's don't self suicide.
> Usually, that's true. The most obvious counter-examples today
> include Venezuela and Greece.
Venezuela is controlled by a somewhat more totalitarian
government than in the past. Not only the government of
venezuela hasn't 'commited suicide', it's actually stronger
than it used to be.
I don't know how bad the current greek government is, but I do
know it is alive and kicking and that the 'crisis' it underwent
was caused by all the money they stole.
So at best you can argue that when a government grows too fast
there may be some kind of 'blowback' but that is all.
> There is a difference, albeit small,
> between a government taking an action to deliberately kill itself, as
> opposed to a government taking an action will will eventually cause
> that government to be killed. To a first approximation, both amount
> to "suicide".
> > However they may piss other
> >folks off, who then rise to kill them.
> I include that kind of event as being "suicide". Jim Bell
>
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