Community, like democracy, is messy, slow, and complicated. Dictatorships are far easier, the trains always run on time, but... unsustainable in every way. You have to be willing to do the hard work.
@codinghorror This anecdote is always funny to me in light of the fact that the German occupation of Norway in World War II almost immediately kicked off a rail strike. ;)

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Also: the trains don't actually run on time.

@codinghorror you're reminding me of the Bird site.
@codinghorror One correction: the trains only run on time if the dictator desires. 😉

@codinghorror the trains do not, in fact, run on time.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/loco-motive/

Mussolini and On-Time Trains

Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?

Snopes