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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset? (anarchist.nexus)

submitted 9 months ago by stinky@anarchist.nexus to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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?

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[–] robotElder2@hexbear.net 0 points 9 months ago (26 children)

What is meant by "tankie" if not ML communist? And what other ideology would OP, who posted this from anarchist nexus to an anarchism community, propose i hold instead if not anarchism?

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago (23 children)

The topic isn't a comparison between the two and the fact you needed to bring it up is pretty funny.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 0 points 9 months ago (7 children)

It's an anarchist complaining about "tankies" and parroting NATO propaganda, it is absolutely a comparison between the two.

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And what does your side parrot?

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seek employment

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's what capitalists parrot as well, weird.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

Broken clocks lol, get busy

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

you really think you did something there, huh?

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have an antiburn cream if you need it.

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 0 points 9 months ago

yeah, you gotta carry that around huh?

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