lol new creative authenticity signal is to get canceled by China... I should put out the south park appreciation I've half drafted
this move towards memetic boat-burning makes me significantly down-grade the idea of the Chinese Way as a genuine alternative to liberal democracy
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Sure, but it also means that China is not as important as the CCP thinks it is, if a lot of people are able to do such low-cost signaling.
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yeah, and taken in aggregate it is an effective signal to china that they don't in fact have as much leverage on the rest of the world as they think they do. I agree with you, I'm just pointing out a different implication.
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Sure. The point is, China's leverage relies on the idea that there are a lot more such people than there actually are.
