I wonder if people realize they've been conditioned into nationalists or if the technology facilitating propaganda is so effective that they don't recognize the rewards and punishments to the amplified talking points they encounter online for what they are.

How often does anyone say, "I support censoring China to protect big tech interests and out of fear of what they will learn using methods of data collection that we pioneered and use, but here is why I think that's necessary..." in any discourse on TikTok? And why would they verbalize that when they can just do what worked on them - downvoting until you learn to adopt the right patterns or go away?