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?

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[–] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The term authoritarianism is often used to denote any form of government that is not democratic, but studies have demonstrated that there is a great deal of variation in authoritarian rule.

I wonder why there is such a variation? Could it be because the concept is flawed? No! It must be because us-foreign-policy

@FlakesBongler@hexbear.net May I please beg thee for a skinner meme?
could it be authoritarianism is dogshit and reductive?"
"No! The enemies of the US state are just evil!' (but more funny, you know you only produce bangers)

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