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?
So it boils down to “at least the trains run on time”?
No it boils down to “we kicked the Japanese fascists out and have a pretty decent standard of living now compared to the rest of the world”
Not OP but I think they are sold on the “consequences for billionaires” part
They are also ignoring that the USA had those things when it was the most repressive to the populace in the 1950-1970’s .
Foreign investment money is a powerful steroid for governments ability to make life better and control the population at the same time.
Wumao shills are everywhere now.
“Everyone who disagrees with me is corrupt and lying” lol cope