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 cringe so hard when I see shit like this. “Many people” is barely a handful. Most .ml users are just regular folks, stop trying to build tribes off the url at the end of names, weirdo.
The most pro-russian user I know of is actually a .world user.
Funny enough, OP has 9 comments and most of them are correcting people on “who actually started the genocide”. I’m guessing it’s not the pro russian stance that bothers you but the anti-israel one.
Whenever I come across a post like OP describes, and I check the instance, it’s ml (with a bit of hex in the mix). It seems fair to me to ask this question.
But then I guess the discrepancy is: “90% of a specific kind of users are on this instance”, which is absolutely not the same as “90% of this instances users are of this kind”
That handful includes the admins though.