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?

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    72·
    9 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?