Many people complain about AI slop on legacy social media, but one kind of slop that annoys me greatly is the state slop.

You know the accounts where their entire personality is a never ending feed of how amazing and brilliant their country/government is, how their leaders are apparently operating on some divine plane of wisdom. Every post is written by someone trying way too hard. Oh any hint of criticism, no matter how mild or factual, is treated like a serious personal attack on their identity.

And what's funny is that the moment their state does something obviously stupid or morally questionable, the damage control kicks in like crazy, “sure it’s bad, but at least it’s not as bad as that government over there!" or "you don't understand, it's just Realpolitik!"

What makes it worse is when this is dressed up as “geopolitics”. The analysis is always shallow and predictable (yes this might seem bad but let me show you how this thing that happened is a good thing! (🧵1/38)) and always ends with the same conclusion that their country is playing 4D chess no matter what. Really makes me hate reading anything geopolitics related.

Man it has to be exhausting to keep that up all day, every day, but I guess the paycheck helps. What’s even sadder is when they insist they’re not getting paid at all. Doing PR for the state for free might be the most pathetic flex of all. Cuck behavior.