uprisings in Czechoslovakia, Hungary etc? Yes very much.

I’m thinking of it more as the decline of the Roman Republic.

don’t worry, there’s still a lot of way to go for the American empire.

If you help the regime come into existence, you are rewarded

well don’t count on that. totalitarian regimes have a tendency to be paranoid and to enact rather unpleasant purges at every level of the organisation.

huh. showerthought:

broke: gofundme woke: sell shares/stocks bespoke: have your company subsidized by the state