for one entity to minimize incentive for a hostile entities to take over (from a military strategy of destroying anything of one's own assets the enemy could use during an occupation, popularized by China during World War 2)
The scorched earth campaign to stop them from nationalizing their business would surely backfire when customers complained.
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The quality users are trying to express is: genuine, real.
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The act of sitting on a females chest and farting so hard that poop exits the rectum and squishes out all over the females chest.
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