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?
Completely true if you don’t consider Palestinians as equals. Or Vietnamese. Or Koreans. Or Black people. Or Ukrainians. Or women. Or the entire continent of Africa. Or the entire continent of South America. Or the entire continent of Asia.
Literally unbelievable you’d be saying this during genocide in Palestine and western invasion of Iran.
Or Sudanese, Kashmiri, or Rohingya people, all of whom are experiencing ongoing genocides sponsored by the same capitalist interests that are murdering Gaza.
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Absurdly dumb take.
“Our flaws are nothing compared”, that’s what op actually said.
What’s genocide of Gaza nothing compared to? What could possibly be worse than that? What worse than threatening an entire country with “the elimination of a civilization”?
Don’t you know that building schools and infrastructure is LiTerAlLy gEnOciDe?
OP didn’t say there weren’t problems in other countries. Also, Israel \ US isn’t “the west”, everyone I know hates that shit and Europe just gets the terrorism end of this bullshit.
But maybe I can still find equivalents to the Palestinian genocide, in the death famine of all north Koreans, in the genocide of the Uighurs, in the killing of 40k Iranians by it’s own regime.
Two things can be true.
Sorry, I think you mean 40 million Iranians, murdered and eaten raw by Ayatollah Khomeini himself.
Deeply unserious propagandized individual. The reeducation facilities (that’s what they were) in Xinjiang have been closed for 6 years, there was not and there is not any genocide. As for North Korea, they did endure food deficit, you can thank the international sanctions banning food exports to NK for that.