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?
They do it for the same reasons you vehemently defend Israel and their genocide of the Palestinians.
Whataboutism
Eh that’s relevant to the discussion since OPs argument is that they’re worse.
My arguing point is that at least the US has a free enough press to keep track of most of their bullshit.
Idk, I personally have never met Ism but I heard they were a pretty cool cat