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 :)
That’s called ideological consistency, the fact that a bunch of people who ostensibly agree on politics and society say similar things is in fact normal, if your cohort doesn’t do that it’s a fairly strong indication that you’re all fucking clueless
Then admit you’re an anti-socialist and prove your (alleged) “ideological consistency.”
Anything’s possible when you make shit up kiddo
No “ideological consistency” from you today, then?
Cope
None whatsoever?
Cope
So your “ideological consistency” is about as worthless as your ideas on socialism?
No u