I don’t agree with a good chunk of the politics, but I fucking love y’all. No one memes better than you and the .ml folks.
Edit by popular demand: The Chunk
I like government. We are stronger, smarter, and more capable than ever because of it. That being said; There are basically no good governments right now. Yes, some are worse than others, but they all fuck the “little people” over in favor of the ruling class. We are treated as an expendable resource. East vs West just keeps us fractured and weak even though we share a lot of core values.
At any rate: Here’s to a new world order, brought to you by the hubris of an Empire. Hopefully this one’s better.
Honestly, North Korea seems like an indefensible shit hole. That’s the take I’ve been fed my whole life, and it’s the one I struggle the most with because I know I don’t have the whole picture.
I’m doing my best to keep an open mind, though. I just wish I could visit in person.
Thanks for the link! Always up for challenging my perceptions.
North Korea is a besieged post-apocalyptic society whose justified paranoia of the west has been proven 100% true
The politics of North Korea are the exact same politics the United States would possess in an alternative universe where Hitler succeeded in invading North America, destroyed every city, killed 20% of the population, and then was pushed out after enormous sacrifice and struggle. Now imagine that version of the United States had been besieged by victorious Nazis for 75 years, while the whole world supported an embargo against the US, which had to literally rebuild from scratch
I view North Korean policies the same way I view the wartime domestic policies of WW2 Great Britain: a necessary evil
I ask this from a place of genuine curiosity:
Why, after all this time, is the evil still necessary?
Look at what the US is doing to Iran or what it’s done to countless countries over the last 75 years, no North Korean children are being bombed by American jets in the year 2026 and that’s thanks to a strong military, nukes and no tolerance for imperialist-friendly treason, again no different than the allies during WW2
If the threat of the American empire disappeared, North Korea would be transformed overnight, similar to the massive booms that swept the Western world after WW2
We may get to see what a post US dominated world looks like soon, which is fucking wild to think about.
Odds are you have somewhere between 0 and a negative understanding of the whole picture. Pretty much all English speaking news about the DPRK originates from 2 places. ROK tabloids spreading gossip spread as real news by English speaking media and the ROK defector industrial complex. Neither of which are reliable sources of information. Look at “juche necromancy” or the whole you are both forced to and banned from having the same haircut as Kin Jong Un. Also you should probably watch “Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul”.
Cool, thanks!
And yeah, I saw the haircut propaganda… smh
Why do you think you’ve been fed that take your entire life?
Who bombed practically every visible building in the country and decimated the population? Who isolated them from the world and sought at every turn to prevent them from rebuilding, something they’ve managed incredibly well despite that?
Who prevents you from visiting in person?
I’ve been fed that take by western media.Misread the question…Why? I guess I’ve never asked why speficially with N Korea…
Fair point.
And I can’t visit because I’m broke as shit. I’ve only been out of the country once and it was because someone else paid for my ticket.
Ah, well if funds is the only barrier then presumably there’s no government mandated travel ban in place in your case.
Why is western media feeding you takes about Korea being a scary run-down place?
I had to edit my reply. Why is a question I’d never considered before, to be honest.
There’s a lot of good stuff in the post I linked, but the short of it is that communism must be wiped off the face of the earth for capitalism to continue imploding, by military force if not economic force. Korea was brutally destroyed in the “forgotten” war and economically sanctioned to prevent them from rebuilding because they are communist.
Oh, that old nut.
Try to consider the why for every single piece you read, every single tweet and smarmy Reddit debate and dumb Facebook take and yes, Hexbear shitpost. It’s a chore at first but after a while it just becomes second nature, like an intellectual muscle memory. Only then will you see what’s behind the curtain
Solid advice. I do try to do this already, but I could clearly use more practice