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adamiscool8 • today at 4:19 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Democratically elected officials acting in the interest of domestic labor <> tech CEOs burned by a dictator


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russdill • today at 4:50 PM

Fixing the visa program is a thing that can be done to improve things across the board. Punishing individual companies that the executive "arbitrarily" chooses is dictator shit.

Isamu • today at 4:44 PM

You can be a democratically elected dictator. A dictator is defined by the powers they possess, not by the process by which they obtained power.

There is an ongoing argument in the US that a person was elected, therefore everything they do after that has the blessing of the electorate. Funny thing though, the people don’t really have a crystal ball to see into the future how their elected official will decide betray the country in the name of a “mandate”.

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freejazz • today at 4:23 PM

It's genuinely crazy to think that anything Trump does is for any interest but his own

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throwaway894345 • today at 4:28 PM

Maybe you think Trump (34 counts of felony fraud for the purpose of concealing another crime, attempted election fraud, rampant insider trading, using the powers of his office to persecute political enemies, creating a secret police force to provoke riots, deploying the military against US cities, aggressive attempts to consolidate power in the executive, etc) is just a man of the people but clearly the CEOs didn’t think so or they wouldn’t have done all that embarrassing groveling at the whitehouse.

gchamonlive • today at 4:22 PM

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