>parroting of mindless rambling Propaganda is strong and useful idiots are numerous on both sides of the wall. Sitong being amplified hard by western PRC watc

>parroting of mindless rambling Propaganda is strong and useful idiots are numerous on both sides of the wall. Sitong being amplified hard by western PRC watchers and media, booted out of mainland with nothing better to do but fill column inches to wishcast crack in Xi's power leading up to Party Congress. The expected hopium before Xi did a full sweep stack of the PSC with loyalist. In reality a small group (~10,000 last I checked) mostly of HK activists + dissident diaspora + few mainlanders coordinating by voiceofcn, a shitposting cope haven, where memes get more eyeballs than protest. Also see Xi getting disappeared/couped fake news, "courtly" drama over Hu Jintao in the last 30 days. CCP internal dynamics being opaque + western media/experts being booted out of country + 100s of millions funding to antiPRC propaganda + too much game of thrones and house of cards (mildly serious) is making the entire ecosystem of manufacturing consent around PRC increasingly irrational, which gets filtered down to online spaces, including HN. "Once you hate someone, everything they do is offensive."