Sometimes pretending to be too socially stupid to be deceptive has advantages. This seems naive.

This is why the US lacks credibility.

When I hear about Tienanmen Square and all the protestors killed, I want to believe the US… and not believe China… and yet, I can’t be sure that anything coming from the US isn’t just made up garbage. It’s probably not… but I can’t really know!

It’s a horrible policy decision too allow things like this and creates major distrust of all US government narratives, when almost all of them could be true.