• UnequalExchange@lemmy.world
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    The only lesson that this teaches me is

    1. ALWAYS go to war agains the global northerners when they try to squash you Proletarian Uprisings

    2. NEVER.EVER.EVER.EEEEEVER.GIVE.UP.THE.NUKES. Socialism is impossible in the modern world without nukes

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    the rise of north korea will be another thing that glitches libs the fuck out

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      Hey, you try and build the most advanced socialist economy in the modern world while being arguably the most embargoed country in history while having faced a genocide less than a century ago.

      Only reason we don’t call the DPRK a miracle is because US propaganda. Imagine if Palestine today got an umbrella from Iran, but could only trade with Iran while its neighbours remain hostile. Then Iran collapses as well and Palestine is put through the worst economic sanctions. But it still holds on, and has a higher literacy rate and life expectancy than the US, universal healthcare, and an industry that produces damn near everything.

      There’s a reason the DPRK has never recognised Israel as a state. They see it as an even more twisted version of South Korea

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        To be fair, they had to start from scratch after the US leveled the country and killed a quarter of the population.

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    I believe HR news about NK as much as I believe the NY Times about the USA, i.e. not at all.

    It sure would be nice to have a reliable source of information; until then, I will assume that both countries are lying through their teeth, as they have both proven to be very reliably deceptive.

    p.s. this article is full of dead links

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      as they have both proven to be very reliably deceptive.

      How has DPRK proven to be “very reliably deceptive”?

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      Yep, I’m secretly Asian which is scarier to liberals than me being white. I’m sure we both understand the implications of this viewpoint.

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      Everyone but you, yeah. Everyone is an evil scheming FOREIGN agent because people with views that contradict yours doesn’t exist! (and if they do, they are actually suppressed and don’t know FREEDOM like you)

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        …What are you talking about?

        I’m curious about an NK resident’s perspective here, on Lemmy.

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          The DPRK has an intranet, and is cut off from the broader internet. It’s illegal, for example, for an ROK resident to access a DPRK-hosted website. That being said, many travel to Russia and China (including for work), and there are citizens of the DPRK that reside in New York City for UN purposes, as well as those that work at embassies around the world, such as in Cuba.

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          Because these kind of questions are always followed with some form of chauvinism or racism.

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      Yeah, the US is shit. It’s even shittier than Canada and western European countries. Utter shithole.

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      Yeah, the random kidnappings, being killed by officers at random, mass surveillance and censorship, propaganda all the time about its enemies, the crippling homelessness and starvation, lack of healthcare and how aggressive it is towards everyone else makes me NOT want to reside as a citizen in the United States.

      DPRK is just so nice.

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          No but it’s obvious you consider DPRK the worst place to live for any human while ignoring any history or context around the country in favour of a chauvinist worldview that favours Amerika.

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            One of the worst places, yes, not for any human of course, the elite there is fine. The rest i didn’t say, thats what you said

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          The Arduous March ended a quarter of a century ago and you libs are still salty that it didn’t result in regime change.

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          I cannot stress enough that time also progresses and situations also resolve themselves in countries you aren’t thinking about. It’s been almost 30 years since food was a problem in the DPRK

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            You sure about that? It’s a problem again and again. Maybe not to the same extent, still happens

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      You do realize that you’re nakedly repeating myths with no self-awareness, right? For example, the DPRK doesn’t actually believe unicorns existed, just like western countries don’t actually believe dragons existed, despite using the iconography as cultural symbols. Whatever you believe is common sense is in reality whatever the ruling class finds it best for you to believe.

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      You’re literally parroting propaganda without a shred of self-awareness lol. Do you ever bother to fact check anything about the designated enemies of western capitalism?

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          The US believes they can get Vietnam to flip in a color revolution, they understand that’s not an option for the DPRK, just like with Cuba. Even then, you can find plenty of slop online about how the government of Vietnam is secretly evil and so communist and so you should hate them. As for the development of the DPRK, you can’t just destroy a country’s infrastructure, genocide about 20% of their population and then sanction the hell out of them for decades and expect them to be doing awesome just because their government is socialist. Even then, it’s not hell. But I agree you should honor testimonies, especially when the person speaking has no financial or legal incentive to lie one way or the other, so surely you’ll want to watch this.

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      Like a North Korean dinner, there’s fuck all meat here. It’s just parroting a bunch of claims.

      It’s just parroting a bunch of claims.

      Seems like the only parrot here is you.

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      From the same country that says it has a cure for cancer and aids, and that unicorns actually existed at some point.

      Citation needed.

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      Meanwhile, America has a “cure” for cancer every other month

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      Not sure what the fuck I just stumbled into but holy shit the comments here are wild. This is some twilight zone shit assuming everyone here are real people.

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        Just like you don’t consider the citizens of DPRK to be real people, they exist and aren’t in some cartoon logic world you liberals have in your mind.

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        This is Lemmy.ML, as in Marx-Leninism. It is filled with entirely delusional people. I’d give you examples of what they believe, but I can’t think of anything more ridiculous than believing that North Korea is some sort of paradise. It’s best just to point, laugh, and move on.

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          Nobody says the DPRK is a paradise. The DPRK is a resiliant socialist country that has managed to achieve incredible results given that they were subject to mass devastation and genocide, and incredible sanctions. That doesn’t mean it’s heaven on Earth either, but because it’s incredibly hard to deny that the DPRK has done a lot with very little it’s common for opponents to pretend communists believe a hyperbole.

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          This is Lemmy.ML as in Marx-Leninism

          It’s actually .ml as in Mali, but okay.

          I’d give you examples of what they believe,

          You actually don’t know because everything you know about Marxism-Leninism (and communism as a whole) you learnt from Western media.

          It’s best just to point, laugh, and move on.

          i-love-not-thinking

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          “Everyone who disagrees with the extremely propagandized bubble of liberalism I’ve been raised in is mentally defective, ignore how many times they’ve been proven right.”

          When you have to pretend that nobody could actually disagree with you without being insane or paid, you have the most fragile ideology in history.

          Believing North Korea is some sort of paradise

          See? If you didn’t have straw men you’d have no men at all. I can do it too. You think America is a paradise, how insane is that? Get help for your delusions, dude.

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      Based on the articles I’ve seen from HR News linked on Lemmy I’m pretty sure it’s AI generated, although they do it somewhat more competently than other more blatantly generated news content. The links backing up its arguments at least have a vague connection to the claim in the article, but it’s still pretty questionable, for instance they say “free education” and then link to this page which gives a single data point from 2008 that says NK has a “100%” literacy rate, information credited to “World Bank”. There’s a claim that the country has universal free healthcare, and then in the next sentence links a wikipedia article that contradicts that claim in the second paragraph. You don’t even need to say these claims are definitively false to realize this is lazy journalism at best.