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?
because they believe to make society better you must punish and control the people through fear.
And they fantasize about being the people who get to do this. Because they ‘know’ better than everyone else how they should live and you need to be ‘educated’ like they are if you are to be a member of this better society.
Authoritarians are always the same no matter what holy book they wave around. Ultimately, all they care about is their own power. Now, our dear friends from .ml certainly don’t have any power, but they like to fantasize about it.
people like internet echo chambers because it makes them feel big.
… but you’ll notice, they always have a holy book to worship.
Even the ones that call themselves ‘Atheist’. Those are the worst. Because instead of purporting to speak on behalf of the fluffy undefinable divine, they simply replace it with themselves. Hence the miraculous double rainbows, new star in the sky, and season changing instantly from winter to spring on the day Kim Jong Il was born.
No, you are the worst. The gall of choosing between religious authoritarians vs non-religious authoritarians and picking based on you’re innate hatred of atheism is stunning.
Every authoritarian system makes the head of it into god-king. It was so with the pope, Stalin, every emperor that ever walked the Earth. And you literally do not know anything about history if you claim that atheist are the worst.
By “holy book” I also mean titles like “Das Kapital”, “Mein Kampf” or “The Art of the Deal”.
Are you really putting one of the most cited economic texts of all time next to the ravings of two genocidal fascists?
yes exactly what I was thinking as well
Pure projection