Comment on North Korean youth risk arrest for speaking like South Koreans

• AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yeah, kind of crazy seeing as only upper class and government officials are even allowed to leave NK. that’s their team, huh?

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• bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why won’t someone defend the NK when they’re literally fighting for their freedom? They’re literally blockaded by the US and threatened with invasion drills every single year, not to mention that the US literally occupies the south with military bases.

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  • shani66@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because NK is a despotic hellhole. The rational stance on the Korean war is to stay the hell out of it, both sides are horrible examples of states failing their only purpose. Whatever magical utopia you think NK will become without the intervention of capital and capitalism is just a fantasy that will not happen, not in North Korea.

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    • bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The rational stance on the Korean war is to stay the hell out of it.

      Which is why you should be advocating for american troops to leave Korea and lift the economic blockade, not demonize the DPRK.

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      • shani66@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s straight up not true. Yes, being attacked by America will cause some terrible consequences, they don’t need to devolve into a totalitarian shithole. And you are the weird one for not being and to hold multiple opinions at once. I can acknowledge that America is bad without glorifying regimes at least as bad as America.

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• Horse@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it’s more wild how eager libs are to insist that a small, relatively poor country that has no real relevance to most people’s lives is some kind of wacky hermit kingdom where you can be executed by artillery strike for having the wrong haircut, every city is made of cardboard for propaganda purposes, and people have to push the trains along the tracks

  especially when all of this is presented with no evidence, is often directly contradictory, and makes absolutely no sense if you think about it for more than five minutes

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  • redchert@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Radlibs like Hasan the Streamer indulge in that aspect themselves. Blaming tankies for having “bad optics” by supporting NK without slandering it. Once they said they same thing about supporting Palestinians and opposing Zionism. Wrong they were and wrong they shall remain. True solidarity screams into the turned faces.

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  • shani66@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you think NK is anything but a shithole you are an idiot. If you think it’s normal for you people to be complete recluses but then to come out in force when someone mentions a shithole like NK you are also an idiot.

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    • Horse@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you think NK is anything but a shithole you are an idiot.

      why? i have been shown no credible evidence that it’s a “shithole”

      If you think it’s normal for you people to be complete recluses but then to come out in force when someone mentions a shithole like NK you are also an idiot.

      says someone from a weeb instance no-one has ever heard of

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      • shani66@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You know damn well you’ve seen credible news from NK. You’re just obsessed with the second world and have anything that goes against your special interest

        And my instance doesn’t seclude itself until it needs to brigade random posts taking about authoritarian hellholes.

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