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Quick then Zuck, ban radical ideas like Open Source even harder from Facebook if you want to stay on Don's good side.

Who just knocked?

To play devil's advocate, I think that the US is extraordinarily stable. So far, two halves of the population pitted against each other in a defective democracy, what a fantastic situation for any ruler. Plus, people have been mollified enough with, in global comparison, very high wages as to not resort to armed resistance.
If that system collapses, a non-democratic oligarchy might have its day. But doesn't that simply mean replacing an, on its surface, voluntary participation in the reproduction of capital with a completely compulsory one? That, and overt persecution of minorities.
Sure, it will suck for almost everybody, and the new rulers might just close the borders to let no-one escape. And there will be blood, at home and abroad. But the system itself, perverted as it may seem, can survive this way for generations, if not centuries. Indentured servitude, anyone?

For a maybe more optimistic view of the future, though, here's what Thucydides wrote in "The Peloponnesian War":

But this was merely their political cry; most of them being driven by private ambition into the line of conduct so surely fatal to oligarchies that arise out of democracies. For all at once pretend to be not only equals but each the chief and master of his fellows; while under a democracy a disappointed candidate accepts his defeat more easily, because he has not the humiliation of being beaten by his equals. But what most clearly encouraged the malcontents was the power of Alcibiades at Samos, and their own disbelief in the stability of the oligarchy...

The waiting room. I hate when they make you wait in the room. 'Cause it says "Waiting Room." There's no chance of not waiting. 'Cause they call it the waiting room, they're gonna use it. They've got it. It's all set up for you to wait.

• Famous quote from the Fediverse's favorite frenemy entertainer, I guess.

(Yes, that's a real, lit cigarette)

Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

(Herman Melville, Moby Dick)

Bingo. Trump already started playing with his corporate finger puppets, emboldening some, threatening others.
Same reason Zuckerberg, surely the expert on the matter, had this weird rambling about "masculine energy" very recently. What a Trumpian phrase.

Take me on

You can buy puff pastry, ready to be filled, in stores. We used to do that a lot. Just blend all scraps and spices we could find around the kitchen, put them into the pastry, shape it and bake it in the oven. Totally delicious.

Oh look, it's male Anna Kendrick.

Years ago, I read an interview with Leonard Cohen who, as you might remember, became a Buddhist monk. He stated that in the monastery, you're free to do pretty much anything - in your free time. Listen to rock music, take drugs, no-one cares.
It's just that you don't have any free time because every day is 100% structured.