Jiang says social media has amplified widespread discontent over the past several years.
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Discontent
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...past couple of years, social media has amplified a lot of discontent. Right. So I think one reason that I'm so popular online is..."
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Jiang says Chinese authorities could use renewed virus fears as a pretext for more lockdowns because confining discontented people to their apartments worked spectacularly well for the state before.
Dave's model says a shrinking elite generation backing the regime against discontented supermajorities is a historically dangerous configuration.
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"...past couple of years, social media has amplified a lot of discontent. Right. So I think one reason that I'm so popular online is..."
"...them. Right. I mean, like like if you feel people are discontent, we'll lock them up in their apartments"
"and say there's a virus going around and people are going to like, you know, stay at home. So that's something that's trying to..."
"...and then super majorities of people suffering from a lot of discontent. And if you look at that model, most nations that have that..."
"...who's speaking out about the luxury resort and who's articulating the discontent, it's usually young people who study abroad. And George Soros and the..."
"...in order to strangle the economy, but also to foment civil discontent in order to basically arm and finance ethnic groups. So that's the..."
"...do is you do surgical strikes in order to foment Political discontent so imagine a color revolution, right?"
"...using spies, of using saboteurs, provocateurs, in order to stir up discontent among the population and in order to better control the emotions of..."
"...afghanistan and iraq the reason why we abandoned those was public discontent at the fact that you know young boys are dying and there's..."
"...Indians coming to Canada. And this was causing a lot of discontent. And so you would think that, you know, after a few years..."
"...humanistic tradition, which is the cause of so much misery and discontent in the world. So, people just assume that the Enlightenment, the Sonic..."
"...this war is pointless, it's unwinnable, and just so apathy and discontent in the American mind. So, I mean, I don't know if this..."
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