Most empires were like that. As a system gets bigger, it's possible set of outputs (and ways to solve issues) actually decreases.
Angkor civilization: climate crisis? Build more temples to please the gods!
Assyrian empire: unsafe borders? Vanguish our enemies!
USA: wealth inequality? Blame the immigrants!
Russia: fading relevance? Expand our borders!
I think a good starter might be a YouTube channel called Esoterica.
It totally sounds like nevar, because it is
"Nevar manis izpostīt" - "can't destroy me" is a phrase they repeat several times.
When the best and brightest get sent to gulags it sets one's culture back by generations.
It really used to be a art.
I had a colleague like that, he was an electric engineer who was convinced that the Earth is flat and that vaccines are bad.
Back in my day, trolls would say something that pisses off both sides of the argument and makes people more aggressive towards each other.
They don't want to live in your oppresive regime. They want to live in my oppressive regime.
Protestant Prayer book in Lithuanian, printed in 1912 in Tilsiter, now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad. My grandparents had many more books like this one, but ended up burning most of them when they were moving to another house and Soviet repressions were getting scary.
I wear my helmet. Comes in real handy when I hit my head against the ceiling of my basement.
Americans do this to avoid paying for a procedure I paid less than one day's pay for and then dare call my country a shithole.
Great. Now do one with bees attacking a CBP agent.