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.

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?

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?

Let me guess, you don’t support Korea, do you?

The trio in the 3rd panel are definitely some reference. The two in the foreground kinda give Team Rocket vibes, but I can’t find anything easily where either meowth is behind Jessie & James or where someone else like Giovanni is.

That’s making me think it’s actually something else that’s not jumping to mind, or maybe I’m just failing to find the right image

Go ahead, make some emojis. Good look finding something unique, though

It’s still better than nothing

C’mon, this was the perfect time to clarify some of those names

translation: The stupid bot doesn’t do what you want it to do most of the time

It’s the perfect comparison I never knew I was missing. Hit the button, 99.999% of the time you’ll get shit.

Not sure if this is the best name for the emoji or the worst name for the emoji

I think this leaves me caught up on things I intended to upload.

So cute

Haha, thanks, that does clarify some questions that I didn’t bother to actually dig into

It doesn’t exactly sound like this is coming from a gold bug based on the description - paper money still only has value as a social construct. I probably need to understand Assignats/Assignations from the listed years to fully make sense of what the author is trying to actually convey with this one

Nice catch! Unfortunately I think that one isn’t going to cut out particularly well.

Plus pushing them along those cobblestones - gotta be quite the workout

A bunch of Cecile I haven’t gotten around to uploading

Tried to get a 6th one of someone else uploaded, but hexbear is a bit unhappy right now…

No wonder the chief is buff, wheeling around coins like that.

I’ve never watched this so for all I know I’m about to start an anime struggle session about bamboo muzzles that eclipses the frieren ones that I also don’t manage to follow, probably for the same reason.

Now’s your chance to drop all sorts of references I won’t get.