It could certainly be done. I don't even think it would be a bad investment long term. It's certainly a shorter flight than shipping off criminals to GITMO, the current "Abandon all hope" prison the US has. It just would be more than flipping on the light switch and dusting off the jail cells. Lots of capital would be required to make it happen. Trump would need to sell it hard.
It’s foreign production of movies, not foreign movies themselves. The goal is to make Hollywood film their movies in the US again instead of in poor countries like Canada and Eastern Europe.
They were never going to have one. This is the weirdest western prescription..
And they really can't survive without doing the selling of shit overseas. They're fatally dependent on energy imports, if they kill their export market by raising up their domestic market, then the 'Chinese economic miracle' will collapse. In the long term, they have domestic reserves they could develop, and could theoretically do the same coal to gas conversions that much of the western world undertook. Problem is, you can't really develop energy resources very fast when you're in a massive energy crisis, and you don't have much of a chance for 'long term' planning when your under massive unrest from what would be a return to third world status for even the first tier cities.
I loathe hollywood, but Medias under the same corrupting pressures as most other industry. Huge swathes of the work outside the writing room gets exported these days. Huge portions of VFX works makes its way up here to Canada, Animation work gets exported to South Korea or even Best Korea, most of what's left in the US is writing, principle filming, and piecing together the imported slop at the end. That exported main labor is where normal people tend to find their work in the industry.
I'm still a Republican lol. I'm sure he could find the Billions from the Doge savings. It still is a tall order.
Can you find another island surrounded by freezing water in US control? It's still cheaper to modernize than start fresh
If a new facility can be built, then great, but how long will that take to build?
Basically china was already living a dystopia long before us.
The greed of the CCP to keep all of their country’s wealth for themselves will prove to be their undoing.
You forgot to mention that those tiny poorly built apartments cost more to lease than a house in San Francisco costs to own.
Its not really hard to rebuild. Have you been there? They just half abandoned it. You could have it back up and running in his presidency. Its cool because its incredibly hard to escape from. The idea is that it is an imposing, punishing place to be.
Don't forget to eat some tacos today to celebrate Hispanics (then call ICE on the taco stand just to be sure)
That's completely irrelevant. I don't understand what this has to do with anything other than some weird noir prison vibe fetish from the 1950's. Prisons are hot / cold and terrible regardless of where they are in the US.
New prefab concrete prisons are stupidly simple to construct by comparison. And there's no shortage of useless desert less than 60km to the east near Altamont which is equally inhospitable if putting a prison in an inhospitable place is the goal.
Analogies that reference western models don’t make sense. China is essentially a fascist economy on war footing.
Which he shouldn't. I'm glad he won over Harris but he better not fuck up and hand them a win in four years because they're going to go ape shit with their own executive orders next time.
You either get the flawed orange man who actually cares, but puts out mean tweets and shower thoughts or the radical leftist who wants to chop your son's dick off and put you in jail when you say no.
Because you toss them in there and they can't get out. They try to escape, they die in the ocean. It's the point of a prison island. We already have too few prisons for our prisoners. Recomissioning one is faster than building new
They would do that no matter what he did.