How would you answer this, and how would you expect Chinese netizens on Xiaohongshu to answer?

I will link to the thread in the comments because I want you to take a moment and think about it first.

  • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    So when you said “that kinda thing never works for long” you were referencing to any state? I think history has proven you wrong on that one, champ.

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      12 hours ago

      just look at rome, or any other empire for that matter, didn’t last for ever, I was talking about the history of humanity, not a few lifetimes

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        11 hours ago

        Rome wasn’t a state, and it lasted for many centuries. Don’t try to pretend by “doesn’t work for long” you were talking about geological time or something