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 :)
Award for least self-aware lib of 2025 goes toooo… It was a hotly contested category folks but TropicalDingdong was able to snatch it with seconds to spare
You really are pathetic.
It’s like some one asked the question “why don’t people hire clowns at birthdays any more?” And then an entire troup of clowns showed up to act out all the examples of why no one hires clowns anymore.
Thanks for making it easy.
Say stupid shit and people will call you out.
What you imagine to be happening here is not what is happening here
You’re getting dunked on and can’t handle it. Lil guy.
Even onlookers are shitting on you. I almost never get voted up, and here we are. You must really suck.
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Replyguy over here can’t help himself.
Bruh you are litterally mm delusional if you genuinely think that. Tankies came into a space like the termites we all expect them to be, and then did the thing we all expected them to do. And we laughed at you for it.
Y’all couldn’t have handled this thread when it was live so you wait 24 hours and pretend that any one gives two whiffs of stinky piss about you a day later.
Like a pigeon on a chessboard, tankies just go around knocking over pieces, shitting all over the place, and then declaring victory.
No one takes you seriously because nothing about “tankies” is serious enough to bother caring about.
It’s a cosplay. Y’all are just terminally online larpers playing dress up. It’s a joke and you ain’t in on it.
No matter how hard you try and flip the narrative no one cares because nothing about you or your ideology is serious enough to even warrant consideration. Y’all are flat earther tier. The kind of people who see a “birds aren’t real sticker” and take it litterally. It’s just teenage edge lording, that is only ever possible in liberal western democracies. And yes, you absolutely have the right to be a terminally insufferable online edgelord. But we also retain the right to mock you and not take you seriously. And we will.
You want your echo chamber? Stay the fuck out of anarchist subs and go back to .ml
Damn, you’re a redneck on top of it all? Amazing.
I’m not going anywhere. Deal with it, little guy. Making you write essays is easy, not reading them is even easier.