>>42833remember mid last year when every single company posted images to social media that had white text on black backgrounds, saying "We, your trusted child louse poisoner and glue trap manufacturer, SUPER LOVE BLACK PEOPLE. BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE BEST."
because anyone who didn't make such a post would be attacked and suspected of having the opposite thoughts?
China's like that all the time. As soon as the pettiest imaginable non-event yab with Taiwan showed up, HoloCN had to act like wolf warriors regardless of their true feelings or their kayfabe.
This how it works: heresy is evil, so you ban heresy. But once heresy is banned, you can no longer tell heretics from non-heretics. Therefore you become paranoid, start probing people for secret heresy, start hiring spies to go around saying "hey, heresy is great innit?" your presence and an insufficiently horrified reaction is taken as implicit agreement, and so on.
