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?

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      “Gommunism bad!!” cites the NATOpedia article they just looked up and haven’t read

      Maybe try a source not entirely comprised of cold-war brainworms? Oh wait, you can’t!

      Extremely unserious that the article includes things like the Cossacks joining the tsarists in the civil war and getting their asses kicked, but makes no mention of the Brits in India.

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        22 hours ago

        Lmao I literally lived through this so maybe fuck off back to your Spanish tankie larping basement. What an absolute moron - sorry I even gave you a chance. Enjoy the blocklist.

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            1 day ago

            Tell me who you define as the west, because unlike you chances are I’ve already criticized it very vocally

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              18 hours ago

              Fuck you. You say “I hope the very worst happens to you”, get a reply being “well, I hope not that for you”, to which you reply “ha, I think I have a gotcha!”

              You are fucking GROSS for this.

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              24 hours ago

              You think I don’t criticise Russia? I have loved ones suffering under the Russian right wing regime. That doesn’t imply the USSR carried out genocides.

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                17 hours ago

                Lol, lmao

                You will just redefine willful harm against millions like starvation to not be genocide by your terms. And if you do believe Putin and his gang is right wing, why are you still shielding them?