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?
I didn’t say no one can leave the country, I said that it doesn’t allow people to escape. Obviously pre-approved people are going to be allowed to leave (more likely in the upper classes, no doubt). But I guess it’s on brand to change my words to slot into the strawman the US has built.
Lying by omission is still lying. Even if everything to come out of the NK government is 100% true, it can still be dishonest if they cut away all the parts that make them look bad, and it is still propaganda. That is what comes of heavily controlled tours and journalism, not open bald-faced lies.
I doubt any of the unredacted portions of the Epstein files are deliberately falsified, but you don’t see me saying that their release was an honest move.