After seeing a megathread praising Mao Zedong, an actual mass killer, and a post about a guy saying “99% of westerners are 100000000000% sure they know what happened in ‘Tiny Man Square’ […] the reasons for this are complex and involve propaganda […],” I am genuinely curious what leads people to this belief system. Even if propaganda is involved when it comes to Tiananmen Square, it doesn’t change the atrocities that were/are committed everywhere else in China.
I am all for letting people believe what they want but I am lost on why one would deliberately praise any authoritarian system this hard.
Can someone please help me understand why this is such a large and prominent community? How have these ideals garnered such a following outside of China?
EDIT: Thank you to everyone who has responded! This thread has been very insightful :)
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Cope
With? Are you okay?
With the reality that the tankies are right as usual
I’m clearly too dumb to understand, please explain.
Why would I bother if I already know you’re too dumb to understand?
Okay, so you’re arguing pigeon style for a position with no basis in material reality. Love that for you.
“Other capitalist hegemonies” lol you’re too chickenshit to actually say what you mean so I can’t say with 100% certainty that what you’re arguing for is entirely baseless, but I’m feeling confident enough to say it anyway