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Re:How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong... by walshemj on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:49PM (#21010020)
That's pretty common in dictatorships, if you read Alex Kershaw's two volume Bio of Hitler he gives some examples.

The response to corruption by local Nazi party members, was along the line of "if only the Fuhrer knew"

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Re:How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong... by UnFleshedOne on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @05:48PM (#21010611)
This goes much further back, Russian peasants often expressed similar sentiments towards their tsars. Even Robin Hood stories feature benevolent king who would come in and fix everything, if only he knew.
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