• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I love that y’all use that as an insult. It only carries any weight in your own echo chamber, you know that right? No where else on the planet (be it a forum or a physical space) does that mean anything. Well, maybe within north korea

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      maybe within north korea

      Don’t worry, absolutely no one there is thinking about internet liberals, the DPRK lives rent-free in your head though xi pointing at the screen

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        Lol yeah they’re thinking about the coming winter, or the reality that they aren’t even allowed to leave their country (for all but the most privileged) unfortunately

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          they aren’t even allowed to leave their country

          This is true, do you know who keeps them inside though? The United Nations’ Security Council.

          Security Council Tightens Sanctions on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2397 (2017)

          […] the Security Council today further tightened sanctions on the country, severely restricting fuel imports and other trade, as well as the ability of its citizens to work abroad.

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            So when they cross the dmz are they loaded in a catapult and sent back?

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              Hilarious joke, almost as funny as supporting sanctions that kill people because the sanctioned country has a scary ideology you know nothing about.

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                Uh huh. Keep defending them, very impressive. I wonder how the government of nk earned those sanctions?

                Indeed their people suffer in more.ways than one.

                I’m sure folks worried about food are the ones not finding work abroad 🙄

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                  I wonder how the government of nk earned those sanctions?

                  Acquiring nuclear warheads and weapons that can be used with said warheads, the same thing Israel did and wasn’t punished for, I wonder why that is…

                  (hint: one of these states is an American puppet!)

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                  I wonder how the government of nk earned those sanctions?

                  “We do horrible things to them, but we’re the good guys so they must deserve it”

                • Quick, tell me about the taean work system, which is used in all medium and large workplaces, without googling it. Since you’re so informed about the dprk

                  (The point of this is to make you reconsider how much you actually know about the country that isnt just straight up propaganda)

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                    I’ll meet you: without googling I believe that is a work transfer system with China. I think it’s rail based, and I think they stay for some time.

                    But they aren’t free to go where they please, or leave the region entirely without ramifications.

                    Edit cause I was honest: I was wrong.

                    But are you purporting this agricultural system as effective?

                    Further I assume you bring that no fact up as argument that collectivist style policy is effective and happening, I would argue it is ineffective and still only a farce under authoritarianism. Else why would nk receive aid, and experience famine?

                    Lastly, I don’t need to know the economic history of the country to know where they are now. It’s not propaganda that got me here, it’s their own words and reports.

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                    Cuba and north Korea are not the same country fyi

                    America bad, if it helps you clock out

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                  I wonder how the government of nk earned those sanctions?

                  Please enlighten me on why you think that is?

                  Also do you think the DPRK is a real sovreign nation?

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              Very few people fleeing the country do it via the dmz. They go through China (and get on a boat) because it’s actually pretty easy for them to go to China. Trying to cross the DMZ is liable to get them shot at by troops on both sides because you really aren’t supposed to cross without authorization, including southerners going north.

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      If “on the planet” you mean primarily the U.S and secondarily the rest of the “west” while excluding the majority of humanity on the planet, then sure.

      You’re so brainwashed and conditioned into believing you have more in common with some ghoul billionaire that values your life insofar as much as they can extract wealth out of you than your own fellow worker.

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        Obligatory comment that brainwashing is a myth rooted in orientalism and later pseudoscience, propagated by the US in order to make excuses for US soldiers defecting during the Korean War (et al).

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        I mean everywhere that isn’t China or Russia or one of their satellites/annexes yeah.

        Not sure where you got the billionaire thing, I’ve never defended them, in word or action. (Living in a capitalist country and needing a job for resources doesn’t make me a billionaire apologist)

        Liberalism and billionaire worship are not the same thing, same as communism and xi are not the same thing.

        To be clear: just because xi figuratively leads a communist country doesn’t mean this policy is perfectly communist.

        Same thing goes for billionaires existing in a liberal society.

        Lastly, the existence of either doesn’t invalidate the tenets of either ideology

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        This is a message board, where we reply to each other.

        By your approach: why did you feel the need to defend him? See? Silly.

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        This is a message board, where we reply to each other.

        By your approach: why did you feel the need to defend him? See? Silly.

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                1. A handle does not imply gender, I’ve been around since early IRC and it’s never been true.

                2. I referred to you as “y’all” when I replied directly. When I replied later I didn’t even look at your name again, or remember who you were. I replied to “shimmering koi”. Is that a fish person? Obviously not.

                3. I fucking hate tankies but I have zero issue with any gender, pronoun, sexuality, race, ethnicity, etc. If I ever had to talk to you again, I’d be fine to refer to you as whatever you want. But I wouldn’t remember you because this is a anonymous social media platform and identify is meaningless.

                4. I forgot to block you in the first place lol

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      I am pretty sure “classist” is seen as a valid insult even among radlibs, and many other people believe in equivalent terms (“elitist” is not too far off)