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?
In 2 days.
Go look up how many people Israel has killed in Gaza, and try to find the day with the highest death toll.
Then compare the lethality of fighter jets, bombers, artillery, and fully armed and armored military battalions against densley populated refugee camps with small arms fire from riot police in a protest at night.