• iByteABit [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Please don’t start defending North Korea, it’s going too far

    I can accept today’s China, today’s Russia takes quite the mental gymnastics but sure, North Korea though is plain too far

    • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      The DPRK has literally done nothing wrong lmao

      Russia is an evil capitalist hellscape oligarchy, no one should defend Russia. But the DPRK’s entire history has been one of oppression by the US. They haven’t even had the chance to do anything evil if they wanted to lol

    • Goadstool [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      You’re not allowed to talk about North Korea, at all, in any context or capacity, until you go read this book.

      Like, you - specifically you - are forbidden from ever talking about the DPRK again, until you go read about what happened during the Korean war in this book. Every time you decide you want to say something about North Korea, I want you to ignore all those smirking news anchors and smug headlines telling you stories about unicorns, haircuts, and concentration camps and remember that you have to go read the book.

      It’s not a super long book. The link I provided is free. Go read it. Until you do, anything you say here about Korea is going to be laughed at, by all of us.

      • whatnots [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        10 months ago

        i have a grasp on the history already but i wanted to check it out cause it looked like it would go more in depth. i just finished chapter one and wanted to say that this is a very good book so far. the writing is so easy to digest.

        thanks for sharing, i hope more people read it.

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      10 months ago

      Damn, you seem to take a strong authoritarian line, you want to tell people which countries they can “defend”, defend from what exactly? So any and all anti-Korean propaganda must go unchallenged according to you, because questioning any of it is “too far?” Just because you’ve internalized and enforce the thought control of your authoritarian society on yourself, doesn’t give you a right to thought police others.