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?
Tankies and ancaps both want to be unrestricted in their capacity to dominate others. The only difference is their proposed mechanism of domination.
Sure, that’s why the absolute greatest poverty alleviation programs have come from Tankies
Yeah, it’s so easy to solve poverty when you just kill all the poor people, take their grain, and distribute it to everyone who passes your purity test as a True Believer (which is everyone you didn’t kill)