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Open original source ↗@yishan Counterargument: a future China-backed California may be like the current China-backed Venezuela.
They’ll give enough support to keep the lights on and people down in a kleptocratic socialist state. But it’s not going to be very functional. More likely to be anarcho-tyrannical.
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Of course, China itself practices capitalist communism. But it's perfectly happy to support kleptocratic socialism in places like Venezuela...and California. And Democrats in California are happy to have their support: https://t.co/xiBQJM1qhT https://t.co/gx8Wblx09t
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