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> another revolution will occur

So the playbook of the CCP in cities seems to be push and push and push until the people revolt and then you cull the activists that are willing to fight by running the army through the streets and shooting everyone that's revolting. This has been a thing since Maos purges and it's the same thing they did in Hong Kong by slowly adding stupid rules until the people willing to revolt had enough.

Zero covid seems so stupid that I am inclined to think someone is just taking advantage of this to identify and purge citizens that are willing to violate government mandates.

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IMO it's all about Xi and the other folks at the top trying to "save face" [1]. Looking it from that lens it all makes perfect sense.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)

no, it doesnt make any sense, because he is going to get himself assassinated or there is going to be a revolution if they keep this up.

there is no way, unless the government bureaucracy is orders of magnitude more deranged than we've thought, that destroying the country and the global economy is worth less than saving face.

Among prominent world leaders, both Putin and Xi Jinping were able to handily remove term limits for presidents (Trump also floated the idea plenty of times on Twitter, of course you have to win 2 terms first before you seek a 3rd.)

I am no expert on Chinese politics and the inner workings of the Communist party, but I thought this viewpoint from a Chinese dissident was interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/21/china-cai-xia-...

If I was going to be extremely cynical, I would say that the transgender cultural revolution is the beginner version of this in the United States. Make something so absurd that people with common sense instead of blind obedience to authority self-identity themselves when they complain about men competing in women's sports for example and are removed from positions of power so only the truly obedient remain for whatever they're going to do next, like when the food shortages hit.

If you guys flag this post, that proves my point exactly. :)

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