In many western countries, especially the US, propaganda is so strong that it’s no longer perceived as propaganda anymore, but just becomes “facts”. This means that people are so confident in US State Department narrative they cannot even conceive of anything outside of it, the idea that people can think something else is not only something they haven’t considered, but they have a mental block preventing them from even considering it.

This is where the Russiagate and “wumao” stuff originates. They are so convinced of the US State Department narrative that they think anyone who disagrees can’t actually disagree, because it’s just “facts” that “everyone knows is true”. So if you do disagree, then you must be lying about your beliefs, you must be a paid actor of some kind.

This also gets into why they’re so ready to support US interventions and wars. They genuinely believe the US State Department narrative is universal, that it’s something everyone agrees with. So they think that people in foreign countries all agree with the US narrative too. If you have video of them saying they don’t? Well, “there must be a hidden sniper forcing them to say that!”

So, in their minds, all Chinese people agree with the US State Department narrative. They all hate the Chinese government and want to see it overthrown. They’re all secretly begging for their white saviors to come save them, but you just don’t see that happening because they are forced to pretend they don’t.

So these people feel like they’re being “heroes” by constantly spamming stuff in support of what they view as prisoners in a nation-sized prison begging to be released. They think that they are “good people” by constantly bringing it up, that it makes them virtuous and that it’s a form of activism to constantly mention it.

You have to remember that liberals are, well, liberal, they’re very individualistic. They’re convinced change is not brought about by collective action but through virtuous and heroic individuals. They thus have a tendency to strongly overestimate what their own actions are doing, and to actually view what they’re doing as real activism.

In their mind, by “speaking up for the Chinese”, they think they’re actually doing something good and virtuous that is making a difference. They like to imagine that maybe a Chinese person with a VPN sees all the heroic Americans saying “west Taiwan” and reddit and gets a smile on their face knowing the good redditors are fighting for his freedom.

That’s actually how they think. Legitimately.