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And america used to make fun of china for its surveillance, but I guess if you can't beat them, join them
I didn't make fun of China for being a surveillance state. I was terrified for the citizens for China being a surveillance state. Same with the UK.
The republicans took every shitty thing they said they hated about other countries like Russia, China and even North Korea and made those things goals.
Issue is, critique of those regimes started to be worded "tactically", to make it seem those problems are unique to those systems, or even silenced completely, and at worst just inventing nonexistent problems of theirs. In Hungary, we no longer hear about arrest quotas of the secret police since 2014, the issue of the Hungarian youth under the communist regime of not being able to wear Levi jeans and Adidas shoes are exaggerated to comical degrees, but now we also have urban legends that the Rákosi and Kádár regimes wanting to implement stuff that are out of current day culture war bullshit.
Colorado is famously liberal
If you lived there you'd know it's optics. They're libertarian (corporate tax haven) in Denver and Boulder and the rest of the state is red. There's even sundown towns. You can smoke pot and marry your bro but you better both have beards and like fishing or else you're getting fitted for the barbwire fence.
Sounds like Ohio with mountains and better PR
Wow. That is an amazing description. Yeah kind of. I never thought of that before. And Ohio DID just import a shit ton of tech companies too so it's almost exactly like the Silicon exodus to Colorado ten years ago.
All those tech companies downsized or all together pulled out for some reason in the last year...
Did they? That's strange considering how prez has let them off the leash with Ai regulation. In that case I'm curious if the data centers that are being built now will be the only ones.
Edit: Oh, you meant in CO. That's news to me too
Is it possible the water rights are too restrictive in Colorado for their liking? I know there's a lot of environmental restrictions and requirements for construction there. My friend's brother makes serious money as a soil inspection engineer (not sure about his actual job title) in the mountains. If he says the ground isn't stable the build doesn't happen.
Deeply wrong
https://www.270towin.com/states/colorado
Perhaps not famously, but Blue in presidential races and overall in the house since 2008.
All the governors but two since 78
2024 is showing signs of slowing or gerrymandering attempts.
So it's a purple state that has been shifting liberal. Which means...not famously liberal.
They'll beat 'em too. Shoot 'em, whatever gets them excited