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?
I think you’ll find that the US has been distinctly fascist for it’s entire history. The German fascists studied the American project - the mass murder of American Indians, the reservation system, the concentration camps, the child separation, the boarding schools, the cultural genocide, chattel slavery, black codes, American apartheid and everything the supported the domestic terrorism and policing and prisons that kept it all going. The German fascists extended American fascism to Europe with an intention of dominating Russia and becoming like the American colonists of the region.
And then, when the Soviets defeated the Nazis, the USA entered the war, partnered up with the Vatican, and saved 10k Nazis from justice by bringing them to the USA and distributing them into all territories the USA had influence over. They integrated German Nazis directly into the US government. And then when they built West Germany, Nazi politicians took office immediately. And then when they built NATO, they staffed it top to bottom with former Nazis.
No. American fascism didn’t start in 2010. You were just unaware of the fascist movement until then.