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?
But they exclusively criticise said countries, no praise for their achievements. Assuming you’re from the EU/US/Canada/Australia, your “socialist” party offers no alternative to Capitalism, just milquetoast reforming at best and continuation of austerity policy (as for the past 20 years) at worst. If they don’t want off capitalism, they can hardly call themselves socialists.
No, that’s entirely untrue. They (Die Linke in Germany FYI) have frequently praised China’s economic system and social progress, while still criticizing its authoritarianism and aggressive foreign policy.
Die Linke? Die “Israel’s right to exist is non-negotiable” Linke? If “socialists” are Zionist they’re not socialists.
Also, Germany saying that a country’s foreign policy is aggressive is laughable. At least Chinese men below 45 can leave their country without notifying their army lmfao
So instead of staying on-topic (the claim that Western socialist parties never praise China’s achievements), you’re somehow trying to deflect the topic to Israel when disproven. Then instead of judging China’s foreign policy on its own merit, you go all “what about” and with false, outdated information as well. And that’s supposed to be the “honest conversation” you were talking about? Yeah no. It’s exactly what I described in my initial post. My blocklist grows by 1 today.
Keep supporting “socialist” pro-Israel parties, you keep proving us how much German “leftists” care about non-germans. Bunch of fucking Nazis supporting genocide.
Criticise China, support Israel, what a fucking great socialist party!