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?
Because they don’t live under them.
The US isn’t authoritarian? Largest prison population on earth, still got slave labor written into the constitution specifically for prisoners, constantly surveilling and imprisoning and killing innocent people, not authoritarian enough for you?
That hits the point right there, they don’t really know the reality of things that people living in those regime. Since we only see the romantic versions of stories.
The romanticised versions are still horrified most people. You have to be seriously deluded to admire these regimes, that said there are plenty that are