• emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    :kim-jong-il: oh shit, this thread is on fire
    :dumpster-fire:

  • ella [any]MA
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    4 years ago

    Y'all act like kids sometimes. Thread locked.

  • Ryan_Holman [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    North Korean military officer (thinking internally): "This is what I serve for."

  • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    everybody else looks pretty fed up and skinny.

    i'm pretty fed up with pretending that north korea isn't a horrible place to live. i hate that attitude here. i defend china, because guess what, china has it's shit together and takes care of it's people.

    i am a huge fan of north korean foreign policy. fuck imperialism, and don't fuck with me because fuck you, but as far as their domestic situation is concerned i am completely against it. i've seen people who look like they're hungry and scared, even when watching videos of pro-north korea shit, where i'm looking for a reason to defend them. it just wasn't there. i've seen some people who look like they're reasonably comfortable, and even little old ladies slamming cops with purses and saying get the fuck outa here, but i've seen a lot more other shit where it really makes me question the material conditions of the people who live there, people who look like they're fucking starving.

    a lot of that can be attributed to the west completely embargoing them and sanctioning them, but they also have a lot of support from china, and their people should have better conditions. i have no love for kim jong un.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      everybody else looks pretty fed up and skinny.

      yea, this one's American

      nothing more American than fake smiles and being fat

          • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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            4 years ago

            yeah, who doesn't in that picture? find me a picture outside of kim ill sung square where anyone looks even comparable.

            • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              oh I thought you were saying the military officers look fed up and skinny. my bad

              anyway yea the malnourished people are mostly attributable to being undeveloped and embargo'd/sanction'd on top of that. I'm not sure why that means I should hate DPRK. You can find similar looking people in literally any 3rd world "free" country

              • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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                4 years ago

                i am saying the military officers look fed up and skinny.

                absolutely the west treating them in such a way is a contributing cause to them being malnourished, but let's not pretend they don't have fucking allies. let's not pretend there is a fucking difference in health between their fucking upper elite class and the fucking people who inhabit their country. i am not telling you to hate the DPRK. i am telling you that they are not infallible, this picture is not funny, and kim jong un is not a good person.

                • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  let’s not pretend there is a fucking difference in health between their fucking upper elite class and the fucking people who inhabit their country

                  ...That's true of every country, even 1st world ones

                  in India/SEA, the rich upper classes are taller and healthier from drinking cleaner water and getting adequate protein
                  in the US, the differences are subtler bc everyone has more baseline food, but the rich still have better immunity and less heavy metal poisoning, etc

        • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          I just don't quite understand going full unhinged liberal "communism no food" rant on a silly post about Kim Jong-un kneeling next to Gary from Spongebob. Your comment is completely out of place and, even if it weren't out of its appropriate context, incoherent. Everyone else looks "fed up and skinny?" You mean these, presumably high ranking, military officers? You think they're victims of the oppressive tyranny of communism no food? Dude, if they're starving, there is no food at all. But they don't look "fed up and skinny" to me. They look like average sized human people caught in a still image making faces which could be misinterpreted as "fed up" if you're looking to make a Fox News segment.

          • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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            4 years ago

            are you fucking kidding me? this is the bullshit i'm fucking sick of. there's even a relatively healthy person in the fucking picture to compare them to. fuck off with your bullshit.

              • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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                4 years ago

                because you think a fucking hammer and sickle means communism and equality. anyone can fly a fucking flag with no actual meaning.

                i've already defended what i think is righteous about north korea. if you can just ignore the suffering of the people who live there, then you're not really a fucking comrade.

            • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              uhh, why do you keep pretending that everyone else in the photo look malnourished?

              Kim is a little chubby, everyone else is normal. Are you okay?

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      You know, I always thought there should be a book written that's in support of socialism, but that also lays out why it's not going to be utopian, and what delineates stuff like Marxism from those utopian visions of socialism

          • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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            4 years ago

            they've never been taken care of. for several fucking years. of course this has an effect, but to pretend that they were doing just fine for years is fucking complete bullshit. look up fucking north korea videos from like 2016. this isn't fucking new. it's just even worse now.