Because they’ve learned from their Chinese masters that petty complicated BS is a more effective suppression strategy than outright banning.
You don’t outright ban your opponents, at least not at first, because that turns off moderates. The main thing is that each individual step you take needs to be petty and as complex as possible so that your opponents can’t even explain to limited-attention-span moderates what’s happening.
It’s like in China, they didn’t just ship all the Uyghurs off to concentration camps one day; they just imposed a super-complicated set of rules about who goes to the camps and who doesn’t, which none of us outside Xinjiang can actually get any legibility into.
i just noticed that. At this point why are they even bothering with all the petty BS?
Because they’ve learned from their Chinese masters that petty complicated BS is a more effective suppression strategy than outright banning.
You don’t outright ban your opponents, at least not at first, because that turns off moderates. The main thing is that each individual step you take needs to be petty and as complex as possible so that your opponents can’t even explain to limited-attention-span moderates what’s happening.
It’s like in China, they didn’t just ship all the Uyghurs off to concentration camps one day; they just imposed a super-complicated set of rules about who goes to the camps and who doesn’t, which none of us outside Xinjiang can actually get any legibility into.
Hey it’s not National Socialism, it’s Socialism With Chinese Characteristics. That’s a totally different thing, because, uh, no moustaches.