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?
Keep it nice people!
Locking. Too many people breaking rule 1.
Because they don’t live under them.
Man I just made an account and happened to pick the most controversial one apparently

Your post is deeply unserious to the point of seeming like bait, homie
The topic is this thread alone is bound to get someone to ask, “Why hasn’t Lemmy.World defederated from Lemmy.ML yet?”
You probably don’t speak any of the languages from the countries you listed. Almost everything that you know about them you’ve learned from “western” sources. You, like many others come to the fediverse and are exposed to counter narratives for the first time in your life. This comes as a shock, and you think that such people must be crazy, paid shills or bots. I encourage you to stick around, and actually read what people are saying.
Also, don’t mistake nuance for unqualified support. Do I like Iran’s government? No, but that doesn’t really matter. Right now my government (who does far greater harm to the world than any others you mentioned), is killing people there. I know from my experience and knowledge of history, that the US “intervening” is not going to end up improving the lives of the people there.
Why do countries under the US/NATO/the West siege adopt strong tactics to survive?
It must be nice to live in the luxury of West propaganda.
But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.
Gaza, Nam, Korea, Iraq and many more…
These people are called “tankies”. It’s communists who like militarism and imperialism, as long as it’s of their own flavor. The internet has many such “bunkers” where these people congregate. They unironically support the countries you mention, and they do not represent the entire left-wing community.
I’d argue that they aren’t the result of capitalist policies being shitty. Such communities have existed on the internet since the early 00s. It’s just their ideology.
Why are they on lemmy? My guess is that Reddit banned some of their communities for posting violent content (threats of violence etc.) so they moved to lemmy, which does not censor people to the degree Reddit does.
The .ml for lemmy.ml supposedly stands for “marxism leninism”.
China wants to eliminate Islam
No it doesn’t, buddy. The zionist terrorist state that you keep supporting in your comments wants to eliminate Islam.
Here are the Muslim populations in China, the majority of which you’ve probably never even heard of in your CIA approved state propaganda:

our flaws are nothing
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.
It’s not lemmy.ml as a source, but rather a symptom.
I see two things going on:
- A general fall in trust in democratic institutions, as those institutions fail to represent people adequately;
- A clear realization of global injustice perpetuated by democratc countries against the will of people.
There aren’t many that that think that Iran’s goverment is good for Iranian people, but they do see that they are defending their civilization. This umderstanding requires that the observer is able to maintain two observations at the same time, instead of requoring complete black & white intepretations.
The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.
Spoken like a true western chauvinist, your crimes are far far bigger than crimes of all of those combined, they arent even a fraction of your evil, you are just brainwashed
Short answer: the Kremlin.
Long answer: Kremlin paid propaganda leaking everywhere.







