• @jackeroni@lemmy.mlOP
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    -84 days ago

    “Megalomaniac dictator” running the “most oppressive regimes” that also just happen to have good housing, a strong and healthy workforce with strong worker protections and universal healthcare. Righttttt

    • @TheBeege@lemmy.world
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      34 days ago

      You wanna cite your sources for that? Every time I see nice images from NK, there’s no people. Contrast that with Seoul, where I can’t get away from people 😅

    • @Denjin@lemmings.world
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      02 days ago

      Don’t engage with this person, they’re either a teenage pro-putin edge lord or some sort of professional troll.

      • @jackeroni@lemmy.mlOP
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        02 days ago

        Yessir, it’s so inconceivable that someone would be fighting against the dominant western narratives so I MUST be either a troll or teenager 🙄

    • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      -14 days ago

      I’m willing to bet a shitload of money that you’ve never actually even been to South Korea (and definitely not North Korea) and have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.

      • @pinkapple@lemmy.ml
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        -14 days ago

        But you went to both and got the grand tour and somehow everyone spoke earnestly to your western ears and said “we hate it here, all day I wish for some McDonalds and Starbucks democracy but the Kims are blocking progress”? Are you openly advertising that you’re a spook?

        It’s painfully easy to figure out that the wildest stories about NK are circulated by SK as propaganda based on “anonymous sources”, stuff like NK executing their football team for embarrassing the nation etc. There’s never external corroboration for these tales that only fools believe without evidence but western media rush to circulate.

        Also little reminder for context, SK immigrants to the US after the Korean War were primarily such far right extremist scum that they’re the only group that got holed up in their exploitative little liquor shops in ghettos during the LA riots and shot back at the protesters with rifles. And low key helped start the riots when one of those extremely racist Korean shop owners shot a 13 year old black girl in the head over a (false) accusation that she had stolen a soda.