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 think it’s debatable who is worse. The country who killed hundreds of thousands of civilians with nuclear weapons and millions more in world domination efforts including soft power and manipulation, or the country who killed hundreds of thousands in a single communist purge, millions more in Holodomor and would probably have nuked cities if they had invented nukes first. Several other countries are/were similarly bad and many others would be if they had sufficient power.
total killed in communist purges were around 700k, the holodomor was a famine and wasnt intentional, “would” is not an argument.