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 :)
A few comments before in this thread you criticized “tankies” for being creepos that speak using animated gifs once they’ve run out of arguments. Do you think that responding to someone asking you why you never read the stuff you reply to with crude generalizations to justify never reading is better than a gif reaction?
Yes.
You’re losing
Urinate over yourself in celebration.
Keep your fetish content to yourself please this is a political forum
Try it… it can only be an improvement in your case.
Weird and gross and sad
Could be worse… I could be a tankie.
Being ideologically consistent and usually correct vs being soaked in piss, wow tough pick