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?
The overwhelming evidence points to the west systematically undermining Ukrainian autonomy, empowering Neo-Nazi elements as a deterrent against Russians (who the Nazis still hate for their communist past), and the populations in Donetsk, Luhansk, etc siding with the President they elected (as I showed you earlier). Either way, evidence behind the western-backed coup: