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?

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    154·
    17 hours ago

    They can’t see that any government is going to create corruption so they picked the government they have the least experience with to side with. Of course at the heart of the tankies is a huge amount of fud being generated by russia and the ccp.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      3 hours ago

      They can’t see that any government is going to create corruption

      Uh no. We have no illusions of a utopia free of all forms of corruption. Where did you even get that idea?

      Of course at the heart of the tankies is a huge amount of fud being generated by russia and the ccp.

      Of course, of course: the massive amount. We’re brainwashed Soyboy and you’re free-thinking Chad. See also.

      I swear to god is this c/wrong_answers_only?

    • Breezy@lemmy.world
      17·
      16 hours ago

      Ah FUD. Its a tuerky based meat i think in the us. Its right along other lunch meat but its called FUD. It so rarely bought.