I legitimately am very curious about what's going on there. There's no way to know obviously, but I really wish I could understand the psychology and the understanding of the world that leads them to it.

I sort of suspect that it's similar to flat earth, sort of a "feeling superior because everyone else is wrong, combined with no interest in fine details or patience to look at facts, combined with strong groupthink and wanting to be part of a club to have allegiance to", combined with self-selection over time that anyone that isn't out of their damn minds as far as geopolitics tends to get driven away pretty quickly, leaving only the residue.

But I have no idea, that's just a guess, and I am curious.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You probably already said it better than i could. Lot of them are just edgy american youths too.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah. I am curious. I might try to breathe some life into !debatebro@ponder.cat by inviting some of them to talk about it there and learn more, but I feel like they probably will not be interested. There's some kind of "ask a tankie" community somewhere, but I feel like that is just going to be a gateway to getting screamed at without learning much. !asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml? I feel like I'm probably banned / defederated from there already.

I have heard that at least one of them is known to be a Russian expat-thanks-to-his-family who grew up in a Western country, and so I guess he is reacting out of wanting to still have pride for his homeland without the direct present day experience to calibrate what he says about it. Kind of makes sense to me. I mean, not completely, but it is the explanation I was looking for at least.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

It's a paradise for the Kim family, the rest of the population not so much.