Would be okay, if it wasn't required to be subsidized by california via the state- and the result of the failed experiments be parked at other peoples doorsteps (as greyhound homeless or superfund sites) all the time.
Was there really ever any trust, except for the - we can get away with bribing people and steal stuff as fast as we can carry and can get away with it? A dishonest merchant will only meet dishonest people.
You make two entrances - one is "backstage and delivery guys" - thats where the people you want get in- the other is for insta-noodles and hipster-replacement folk, who want to wait all night and then get rejected in some viral video..
The percentages of democratic citizens assimilated into china would reach quiet a interesting percentage with taiwan assmiliated into the mainland. You can censor and propagandize all you want, but people who travelled or know better, just wont blieve a word of it happily ever after. One wonders what the internal "knowing" citizen rate is by now in china.
The party relies on divide and conquer of uniformed fools. But the fools are in the minority by now - and the divide and conquer is one sneaky trustfall decentralized communication platform away from never working again.
There is also a deeply worrying trend to "milk" creators, in "controversial" topics, by banning them and taking the income for the company.
It allows for unholy alliances of company revenue, controversial topics, and state driven brigading.
There were also significantly counter-culture movements against anti-imperialism similar to the russian anti-woke-culture war (after all it discredits imperialism) and thus dissolves the russian empire if looked at through this lense. They were just discredited after hitler dialed imperialism up to eleven.
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