I think it’s shitty to accept something so obviously objectionable. If we had a dictator that was executing or torturing people for thought crimes and only spared those that worshiped him, I’d admire people that, even though they knew this tyrant could destroy them, chose to not bow before him. So, to me, even if this is the truth it’s still shitty to accept it as anything other than repugnant.
Dictators are only bad if you can prove they exist.