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"Press with both hands"

...just when you thought this timeline couldn't get much weirder.

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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

The problem with incarcerating corrupt populists is that a sympathetic politician may vary well release them on the future. Korea has charged and imprisoned former leaders only to have subsequent ones free them.