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?

  • lil_baka@ani.social
    76·
    3 days ago

    Watching anime is a crime.

    UK, EU, & US are getting closer to this every year.

      • lil_baka@ani.social
        11·
        2 days ago

        I’m not collecting this, so links are not of best quality, it’s just something I could quickly find. But if you pay attention, you will find stuff like this happening almost every week.

        • acido@feddit.it
          1·
          2 days ago
          • a lot of manga/anime DO have despicable stereotypes in them, but so do many other things which are still completely legal.
          • corporations being fascists isn’t anything new and they are also US corporations, so you are still generalizing a bit too much. also manga/anime move tons of money and corporations love money, so not gonna happen.
          • lmao I knew we would get to lolis here and, brace yourself, while I don’t think people should be jailed because there is no harm caused to minors, I still consider it pedophilia and it should require some kind of action, like for example requiring the person to have psychological treatment or something like that. that being said manga/anime isn’t just lolis (luckily) so, again, you are generalizing quite a lot.
          • lil_baka@ani.social
            11·
            2 days ago

            it should require some kind of action, like for example requiring the person to have psychological treatment or something like that

            Do you also think lgbtq people and furries need psychological treatment?

            • acido@feddit.it
              1·
              2 days ago

              oh and furries are zoophiles, clearly, so it wouldn’t hurt some therapy.

              • lil_baka@ani.social
                11·
                2 days ago

                I see you haven’t tried thinking about it critically even for a second. Seach “Piper Perry” and think who is closer to resembling a real underage person: an average “petite” pornstar, or an average anime “loli”. Yet somehow “underage looking” anime characters are always claimed to be “pdf” taste while “underage looking” petite pornstars are only claimed to be “pdf” taste in Australia, famous for calling even smaller than size 3 breasts a “pdf” taste.

                • acido@feddit.it
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  first, I don’t care about what you think is worse.

                  second, being attracted to little girls, even if drawn, is LITERALLY pedophilia.

                  the fact that there is pedo bait in porn makes another valid point for my thesis that manga/anime will never be illegal since that kind of porn is decades old and I also linked you an article about that guy arrested (and discharged) for lolis pics that further proves my point.

                  I also notice you avoided my question, but I take it as you regretting the comparison between lgbtq+ and lolis/furries.

                  • lil_baka@ani.social
                    11·
                    2 days ago

                    If you consider attraction to petite / compact / small body types as pdf, then my answer to your question is yes, and moreover I consider this kind of taste way more common and less questionable compared to lgbtq stuff (even though I’m totally fine with that as well). Moreover, it’s only in west people look like 40 when they’re like 16, in east people often look compact and petite for most if not all of their lives, so that your western mind bugs are seen as even more hypocritical there.