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?

  • ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip
    31·
    5 hours ago

    The lead lemmy developer has some u n usual political ideologies which are incompatible with my own

    Ooh, interesting. Do you also leave buildings whenever someone plays Michael Jackson?

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      12·
      4 hours ago

      What a silly thing to say.

      Firstly, it’s classic, textbook whataboutery.

      Secondly, I’m struggling to remember the last time I would have been anywhere that would have played Michael Jackson.

      Finally, you don’t seem to understand the basic concepts of approval, support, and patronage. The existence of alternatives is critical

      • I may not like my government, but I can’t just flip to another one so I’ll vote accordingly but pretty much go about my life
      • I don’t particularly like a lot of mozilla’s decisions in the last several years, but chrome & friends is worse. All I can do is use a soft fork. Still using a soft fork but at least not supporting firefox directly.
      • I don’t align well with desalines, and given the ready availability of alternatives, I can switch away without issue.