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?

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Now please, explain to me how the propaganda apparatus of a decrepit post-soviet nation with an economy the size of Italy has a bigger, more powerful and more pervasive propaganda apparatus than the US empire and the EU together.

    Easy.

    Propaganda is cheap. Especially in the age of the internet.

    Why build bombs and wage physical war for astronomical amounts of money when you can put some incels in front of a few computers and sow incredible division between the people’s of another nation you don’t like? In that scenario a weaker/poorer nation can absolutely outplay a stronger/wealthier nation.