• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Yeah let me go to the same Olympics that allows the Zionist Entity Isn’treal, the USA, Saudi Arabia, and various other genocidal states so I can mock…the DPRK, a country not doing genocide. Ok.

    Also doing this while comfortable enough to go to Paris and get tickets to the Olympics

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      TBF, they believe something similar to a genocide has been ongoing in the DPRK since the 50s. Not sure how they reconcile this with their beliefs about the mindless Korean hordes doing the Kim’s bidding. You’d think if they killed everyone for such small infractions as they claim, there would be no labor force left by now.

      Their beliefs about the DPRK are wholly rooted in fantasy. Look at their blind trust for everything Park Yeon-mi has claimed.

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    Reddit is inaufferable about this. Saying the athletes get murdered if they don’t react disgusted. Also saying they are reacting disgusted because they are brainwashed people who can’t think for themselves.

    Some even goed as far as to say they aren’t allowed to go anywhere and have to stay inside the olympics village. How they explain several DPRK athletes standing next to the marathon parcours Yesterday, just chilling, I don’t know.

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        I get westerners are like this, what makes me angry is that I come from a global south country and people there are like we are turning into North Korea. I just have to think to myself, you wish dude. Pakistan is just an American run basket case. At least DPRK kids never get droned with permission. They have a spine.

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          Holy shit I cannot imagine being in Pakistan and losing it over Korea lol…As you say, they don’t get their kids blown up by drone strikes. How Pakistanis aren’t filled with hatred over the USA’s illegal bombing campaigns against them is beyond me.

          Like there’s a reason Pyongyang doesn’t have to deal with that shit.

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            It’s because ya a certain point the colonialism infects you if you aren’t careful. Fanon was a genius at explaining this shit. Pakistan’s army literally put their elected PM in prison with American blessing and the people there are stealing appealing to American liberalism. Oh notice us please, we are being oppressed. Like, come on man, they are the ones that did it.

            Edit: the phenomenon of appealing to western human rights is more prevalent the higher up the economic class you go. As I always say the bottom of the global south has a better understanding of politics than ivy league phds

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        Both Koreas (DPRK and Occupied) have played as combined teams at the Olympics and other sports events. That’s just absurd to say they can’t be near one another

      • Meanwhile no one is talking about the real tragedy that Occupied Korean athletes are to be executed because the French referred to them as North Koreans on TV, their entire families are being held prisoner and tortured until they return to make sure they come back. Please save them, Xi!

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    What goes through someone’s brain to make fun of, what they assume to be, oppressed people? Like, these are people you supposedly care about and yet you seek out to make them feel unwelcome and uncomfortable. And then you wonder why North Koreans hate the west? When you treat them like this?

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      Because they don’t really view North Koreans as oppressed, they view them as mindless brainwashed mooks of an evil villain. They don’t view them as people, they view them as props to make their worldview where the west is the good guy make sense.

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        The movie with title of “Animal Farm” also accuses the oppressed Eastern Europeans for sabotaging of democracy in service of the American redefinition of ‘dictators’ that provides justification of dictatorship by Western European colonizers who use democracy slogan to impose the racist white brutal authoritarianism.

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    I thought Winnie the Pooh was banned in china, not DPRK? They are not even good at being racist. They get their lores mixed up and when western racism is on the decline, boy are they doomed.

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      I think the context was a match that DPRK was competing against China, so he was trying to simultaneously (and ineffectively) offend both countries.

      Not that it makes it any better, he just manages to be an asshole to multiple people at the same time, so he can get a pat on the head from people who won’t ever accept him. I imagine most people were just confused by what this random asshole was doing.

      I think he was kicked out and banned though, so that’s something.

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        time, so he can get a pat on the head from people who won’t ever accept him

        Yeah, just learned he is Asian. It’s almost like they hate that you are successful and Asian, not because Winnie the Pooh is banned in China or totalitarianism. You can literally search Shanghai Disney Winnie the Pooh, they have an exhibit. But yeah, the only way they will accept him is if he is under their boots and if that’s his math, that’s sad AF.

        He got no reaction from the DPRK/ Korean crowd at all, they probably just thought he was stupid as fuck.

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      As i always say, the fascist brain can’t held multiple ideas for long, they are unifying after a time, here we seen the various asiatic horde brainwashed human hive tropes melding into one.

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        You are right, it’s all just melting into one thing. It’s only going to get more incoherent as the economic gap erodes. Dudes who are on reddit all day everyday are going to lose their minds that simply being a certain nationality or race isn’t going to cut it anymore.

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    I was in a reddit thread about something similar to this and all the comments were very insistent that the North Koreans who didn’t react “appropriately” would be sent to a work camp when they got home. They’re fucking insane that they believe these things

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      And they claim that pictures of smiling girls of abducted Indigenous children in fake school death camps in the countries of British expats during the Cold War “proved” that the widespread reports of child abuses, unethical human experimentations, and crimes against humanity did not existed despite the claim by fake school genocide deniers that the people who have childhood upbringing of custom of European Christian diaspora are unrealiable untrustworthy liers. The fake school deniers do not explain why they support child abduction, custody of children under dangerous white criminals, absolute authority, lack of transparency for the Indigenous parents that funded the fake schools, isolation of the fake schools in remote areas from even the European immigrant communities, the scapegoating of Native American parents for the savage indoctrination from the fake schools where their children are imprisoned despite the common knowledge that their children were raised under the absolute authority of European immigrants, or the fact that the reports of rampart savagery in fake schools does not existed in real residential schools before the 1850s that lack support from the government or Catholic churches.