FeatherTrap 
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Yup. Because none of y'all fought where it really mattered. You thought you could just "vote" all of it away...and you would get it.
[bq]
> There is an old song which asserts that "the best things in life are free". Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted… and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears."[/
They've had over forty years to set up the systems of the state, the academia, the media. You think one rude asshole was going to topple it alone in eight years? He needed help where it mattered, and everyone was too fucking scared of bq]eing called "-ists" and "-phobes" to fight back.
"But muh family n' kids!!"
Yup, now you'll be raising them under President Xi Ching Ping. Was it worth it?
Knight of Boops
Yup. Because none of y'all fought where it really mattered. You thought you could just "vote" all of it away...and you would get it.
[bq]
> There is an old song which asserts that "the best things in life are free". Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted… and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears."
They've had over forty years to set up the systems of the state, the academia, the media. You think one rude asshole was going to topple it alone in eight years? He needed help where it mattered, and everyone was too fucking scared of b
"But muh family n' kids!!"
Yup, now you'll be raising them under President Xi Ching Ping. Was it worth it?