I love living in a country where I have a high chance of being killed by a chud because they were denied service at the local Cheesecake Factory for not masking up and so shoot up a mall in protest...
Honestly don't think there's any solidarity to be found from consoomers. When a revolution happens they will likely be the brownshirts that need to be shot as they defend their god capitalism. Some people are just so mentally broken by our treat saturated country that it's kind of hard to think of them as properly socially functions people and instead just hungry rage fueled animals.
Honestly don't consider those people part of consoomer groups, it's more that you have a specific group of individuals within the country in which their consumption habits are so ingrained as their identity they see issues in service as personal attacks against them. Everyone else that reacts normally during those situations are just that, normal people. I'm not advocating a people's war against everyone that shops at Kohl's or Sears haha... yet.
Is the flooding there constant? I was only aware of the bad flood they had in 1993 following the fall of the Soviet Union. Since then I had thought that they altered their food strategy in lieu of new conditions, but getting solid information about the DPRK is difficult.
Libs believe that the reason the people of not just DPRK, but also every other AES states like China, Vietnam, Cuba, etc didn't revolt against their government is because they're culturally servile to authority. They just lacks the skull shape to recognize ideals like "freedom" or "individualism" which is why they're content with being under the boot.
It’s because the government there is so violent against protesters. That makes it so people won’t riot over a lack of food. Even though literally modern doctrine says the exact opposite. For anyone who isn’t familiar, the reason the US government does the whole “have soldiers dance the Macarena with local teenagers” schtick is because they tried brutal suppression of rebellions and it always just creates martyrs and emboldens the resistance.
There’s no finagling your way out of food rebellions once your people have gone a couple days without food. We get real desperate real quick when we realize the alternative is starvation. The idea that this is the norm in North Korea is laughable
It's an outgrowth of Americans' complete lack of historical knowledge. NK obviously had really bad famines after we dropped more bombs on them during the Korean War than were dropped during the entirety of World War 2, and then they had another pretty bad famine in the 90s after their main food source the Soviet Union collapsed. These events have morphed into the pop history belief that NK has been having a nonstop famine for its entire existence.
There are anecdotal accounts I've read about young people who were kids during the famine being more pessimistic than their parents. It seems to me (again, based totally on anecdotes, and through the interpretation of a cracker that lives thousands of miles away) that perhaps the adults living through the famine were deeply loyal to the state during the famine, said loyalty may have appeared to be without warrant to their children who experienced hunger and hardship. I haven't heard of any further unrest beyond that, myself.
Americans are also so desperate to believe that, that when they go to Pyongyang and have no problems getting food, they actually believe they only got what little food they have out to the Americans so that they can pretend they're not starving.
Somehow, folks there are not fed, yet simultaneously, there isn't also mass unrest. Libs can't explain that
once my dad was like "north korea, now thats one you wonder how it hasn't just collapsed by now" and I was just like "hmm"
Wonder indeed. But not too hard though, you might arrive at some dangerous conclusions
no no it's definitely brainwashing something something kill ten generations of your family something cult of the god-king kim
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I love living in a country where I have a high chance of being killed by a chud because they were denied service at the local Cheesecake Factory for not masking up and so shoot up a mall in protest...
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Honestly don't think there's any solidarity to be found from consoomers. When a revolution happens they will likely be the brownshirts that need to be shot as they defend their god capitalism. Some people are just so mentally broken by our treat saturated country that it's kind of hard to think of them as properly socially functions people and instead just hungry rage fueled animals.
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Honestly don't consider those people part of consoomer groups, it's more that you have a specific group of individuals within the country in which their consumption habits are so ingrained as their identity they see issues in service as personal attacks against them. Everyone else that reacts normally during those situations are just that, normal people. I'm not advocating a people's war against everyone that shops at Kohl's or Sears haha... yet.
Is the flooding there constant? I was only aware of the bad flood they had in 1993 following the fall of the Soviet Union. Since then I had thought that they altered their food strategy in lieu of new conditions, but getting solid information about the DPRK is difficult.
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food security was only an issue after the ussr collapsed
Racism
Libs believe that the reason the people of not just DPRK, but also every other AES states like China, Vietnam, Cuba, etc didn't revolt against their government is because they're culturally servile to authority. They just lacks the skull shape to recognize ideals like "freedom" or "individualism" which is why they're content with being under the boot.
In other words, they use idealism to fill in the glaring holes of their ideology, as have they always.
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Homo sovieticus
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It’s because the government there is so violent against protesters. That makes it so people won’t riot over a lack of food. Even though literally modern doctrine says the exact opposite. For anyone who isn’t familiar, the reason the US government does the whole “have soldiers dance the Macarena with local teenagers” schtick is because they tried brutal suppression of rebellions and it always just creates martyrs and emboldens the resistance.
There’s no finagling your way out of food rebellions once your people have gone a couple days without food. We get real desperate real quick when we realize the alternative is starvation. The idea that this is the norm in North Korea is laughable
It's an outgrowth of Americans' complete lack of historical knowledge. NK obviously had really bad famines after we dropped more bombs on them during the Korean War than were dropped during the entirety of World War 2, and then they had another pretty bad famine in the 90s after their main food source the Soviet Union collapsed. These events have morphed into the pop history belief that NK has been having a nonstop famine for its entire existence.
Was there unrest after those famines?
There are anecdotal accounts I've read about young people who were kids during the famine being more pessimistic than their parents. It seems to me (again, based totally on anecdotes, and through the interpretation of a cracker that lives thousands of miles away) that perhaps the adults living through the famine were deeply loyal to the state during the famine, said loyalty may have appeared to be without warrant to their children who experienced hunger and hardship. I haven't heard of any further unrest beyond that, myself.
Americans are also so desperate to believe that, that when they go to Pyongyang and have no problems getting food, they actually believe they only got what little food they have out to the Americans so that they can pretend they're not starving.