I believe that the danger presented by China is precisely that they _don’t_ apply the official Groupthink censorship and don’t tweak your feed to ensure that you are being properly manipulated for the benefit of the predatory oligarchs.
Too much freedom (!?!) on Chinese-owned TikTok.

I think he meant to say, “Only _losers_ joined during Biden’s term.”

China actually _does_ have a very aggressive DEI policy, with Tibetans, Uighurs, Dai, and other ethnic minorities getting preferential treatment in education and employment (and even child-bearing, as they were exempted from the one-child policy).

For now this kind of manipulation is fairly obvious, though the MAGAthugs will deny it any the MAGAdolts will believe them.
In short order, they will be much more subtle and indistinguishable from reality.
Things will soon be bad.

I hope the statute of limitations has passed (I’m referencing the early 1970’s here), but as an undergraduate I once had a gig writing term papers. I charged extra if I had never taken the class, but I guaranteed a B and never let a client down.
I guess I couldn’t compete with LLMs now.

It IS an emergency!
There is the imminent danger that democracy might break out.

Why don’t they just declare him a god and skip the middleman?
It worked for the Romans.