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?
So as it turns out, when countries like Iran tried out the liberal democracy thing, they got infiltrated fast and hard by the West and their whole system was dismantled and replaced with a despotic puppet. So it’s not that their current system is fragile, it’s that gentler systems are fragile in the face of a psychotic belligerent enemy.