“Yes don’t vote at all to get rid of fascism”

  • deaf_fish@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Lately, they have been trying to tell me that North Korea is a democracy.

    • arrow74@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      I mean it is in the name. The DEMOCRATIC People’s Republic of Korea.

      Dumb libs can’t even read

        • CMonster@discuss.online
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          3 days ago

          I lived in SK. It’s a racist shit hole. I’ve also been to NK for work and it’s absolutely and even bigger, darker, shit hole.

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            2 days ago

            Wow, a country that experienced harsh Japanese colonial rule from 1910 until being forcibly divided by the US after the second world war, creating a war-torn pariah state facing crushing international economic sanctions, is a shit hole? Color me surprised!

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              16 hours ago

              You act like I don’t know that. I also don’t see how that excuses the insane levels of racism towards anyone not from the peninsula they exhibit.

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                4 hours ago

                Huh??? Did I say anything about that? Does this racism excuse anything we’ve done to them? Seriously, project much?

                What the hell should we do about it, fucking invade them again? Continue blockades that don’t even achieve their stated purpose and just make things worse for their people? Cause that’s gone over so well… the only real interaction with most foreign nations being that of sanctions, acts of war and colonization, arbitrarily imposing their own values, and constantly talking down on them both as a nation and as a people, definitely is going to make them love foreigners.

                It’s not an “excuse” brother it’s just material reality, why do I have to be “excusing” anything? Is it too much to treat them like humans worthy of a basic level of respect??

                Let’s talk excuses though. It’d really be no fucking wonder if they hate us like you say they do. You would hate foreigners too if they talked about you like that and preyed on your downfall the way western nations do to the DPRK. In fact you’ve shown very clearly that you have the exact same hate which you’re trying to condemn here. Calling their home a “shithole”, your only response to a very brief overview of their history not being one of understanding or empathy but simply to lash out and call them racist, which I can only assume is to imply they deserved it. What’s your excuse??

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                  2 hours ago

                  Your reading into it too much bro. Your putting like an entire dictionary full of words in my mouth.

                  How much interaction have you had with anyone native to the area? It’s the same kind of racism you would experience being different in the rural US. You can virtue signal all you want but it doesn’t change that the breed of racism they exhibit is built from ignorance and cultural failures. There is a reason they have an insane suicide rate in SK.

                  • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
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                    2 hours ago

                    Cool. What does that have to do with their history and the way they are treated by the west? You know so much, can you tell me that? What do you suggest should be done about it? Just to clear things up, so I’m not “putting words in your mouth” by literally repeating what you said verbatim and responding to it.

                    Also its “virtue signalling” now to insist people be treated with respect and that their material reality shouldn’t be dismissed? wtf??? As you said, we have the same “ignorance and cultural failures” in our society. Do we deserve to be bombed and occupied?

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            3 days ago

            If you’re willing to share, I would very much appreciate a new post about this.