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?
I don’t know. I’ve seen way too many times how ‘both-sidesing’ ends up benefiting the main villain. I think that you don’t realize that your consent is being manufactured. What good does it do for a US citizen to criticize the government of Iran, at a time when our government is waging an illegal war on them? It only furthers the propaganda narrative that our military actions are justified in some way. Whatever crimes they have committed there pale in comparison to the crimes committed by the US-- one of a very short list of countries that Westerners have any business criticizing.