• -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.ml
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      Because it has every right to be that way?

      "The number of Korean dead, injured or missing by war’s end approached three million, ten percent of the overall population. The majority of those killed were in the North, which had half of the population of the South; although the DPRK does not have official figures, possibly twelve to fifteen percent of the population was killed in the war, a figure close to or surpassing the proportion of Soviet citizens killed in World War II…

      Russian accusations of indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets did not register with the Americans at all. But for the North Koreans, living in fear of B-29 attacks for nearly three years, including the possibility of atomic bombs, the American air war left a deep and lasting impression. The DPRK government never forgot the lesson of North Korea’s vulnerability to American air attack, and for half a century after the Armistice continued to strengthen anti-aircraft defenses, build underground installations, and eventually develop nuclear weapons to ensure that North Korea would not find itself in such a position again… The war against the United States, more than any other single factor, gave North Koreans a collective sense of anxiety and fear of outside threats that would continue long after the war’s end."

      • Charles Armstrong, The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea
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    It’s insane. Israel struck first, blatantly and obviously, and it was reported as such initially. But it feels like by now the mainstream narrative has become “well who’s to say who really struck first?”

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      Of course they are. They’re working to manufacture our consent to regime change in Iran, which they’ve wanted since 1978 when their puppet regime was overthrown. It’s 2003 all over again.

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    And how could anyone seriously disagree? It’s so blatantly obviously the truth. The sheer amount of propaganda in Western media is just ridiculous in comparison.

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    "The international community is strictly watching the US and Western forces fanning up the flames of war

    Ooh burn!

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        Side note: It never occurred me that the Family Guy card meme has the top section full-on #FFFFFF white.

        That’s not a person, that’s a ghost.

        I have a hunch that racist people would be hard to haunt because they’d just see you as a white person.

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    waking up to tucker and n.korea being voice of reason while democrats are campaigning for pouring napalm on fire started by extreme right wingers of a genocider cult nation.

    man everyday seems like world has become an absurdist drama. the obama years seems like they never happened

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          While there is something understandable about partially wishing for it, I don’t think anyone is going to lead a genocidal strategic bombing campaign against the United States to level every manmade structure taller than knee height before promptly having 95% of the planet embargo them for 75 years, so I doubt the US can emulate the DPRK’s economic situation too well.

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              Even the harshest critics of the DPRK acknowledge that it has universal healthcare, housing, pretty much no unemployment (if any), and at this point, food. The Arduous March is over. That doesn’t mean the DPRK is a magical paradise or anything, but that’s in a state that was bombed into oblivion and was the target of genocide. If the US adopted more DPRK economic policies, then it would indeed see the improvements Yogthos listed.

              I don’t really think you’re owning anyone here, it’s just coming across as you jumping to insults when you’ve been confronted with an alternate viewpoint instead of trying to do any research or understanding. You just jump to “Marxism bad, Marxists unintelligent.”

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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              I’d consider that an insult if I respected the political analysis of anyone who uses ‘tankie’ as a substitute for thought.