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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Citizens doing the pillorying, remember, not the state.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just ignore the fact that social credit score will go down and disappearances will occur if you don't loudly do this shit to prove that you are a good, loyal citizen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

China has plenty of earnest nationalists who are as stupid and easily roused by nonsense as nationalists here in the US. The party doesn't need to stoke this. Also, that's not how social credit or disappearances work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, the state itself doesn't care about this. This is human beings looking for people to outgroup and then force the state into action. I'm not implying that the state isn't captured by crazed jingonists that border on fascism. I just think it's important to understand just how much popular outrage is what drives what the Chinese state does.