Many people on lemmy.ml deeply respect and admire authoritarian governments and organizations.
Iran, China, North Korea, Soviet Union…
The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.
Iran hangs homosexuals. Iran shot 30,000 people in less than than 2 weeks. The Soviet Union had to build a fucking Iron wall to prevent people from escaping. The Soviets lied about the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. China censors the internet. China wants to eliminate Islam. North Korea is a totalitarian hellscape. Watching anime is a crime.
Why is lemmy.ml so fascinated with authoritarians?
like israel/palestine being a terrorist is a totally fine resistance against 100 years of apartheid and colonialism
but they don’t support terrorism
authoritarian mass murderers are the logical class struggle government of resistance against the war mongering, CIA backed coup colonials
but they don’t like stalin some of the time
having cake and eating it - no accounting for the intellectually diverse/broken