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DiscourseFan 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford T...

>They only respond to force

In the wise words of Chairman Mao:

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

Jensson 5 months ago [–]

At least he practiced what he preached there, but in democracies the pen controls the sword, not the other way around.

DiscourseFan 5 months ago | [–]

>but in democracies the pen controls the sword

Pens are fairly sharp

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