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 :)
You sounding like every other tankie out there is not a me problem. It’s a you problem.
How do you know that without reading the responses?
Well, this is just a wild guess… but perhaps it’s got something to do with the fact that I haven’t encountered one of you in the last decade that doesn’t sound just like every other tankie?
But you didn’t read the responses, so are you just skimming through them and responding based on vibes? It seems wrong to land at any concrete conclusions based on that level of investigation.
Any and all conclusions regarding tankie ideology’s political emptiness has already “landed.”
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.
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?
“People who have similar political ideas say similar things to me and I think that’s problem” lol
Really? I have similar ideas to an anti-socialist?
Proof?
Lol learn to read
You first.
Seriously though, you’re not helping your credibility by responding in ways that clearly indicate you’ve misread the comments you’re responding to
Sure you don’t want to try urinating on yourself?
If nothing else, it might convince some in the working class that you’re actually human.
The inclusion of your piss kink isn’t helping your credibility either
I’m not the one brigading an anarchist instance to try and prove my (alleged) “credibility.”