Lexicus
Deity
Have you ever heard of the United States of America?
Yes
Have you ever heard of the United States of America?
No, but look, there is no such thing as a perfectly impartial source of information in this world. The idea of North Korea as this unimaginably horrible place to live elides the fact that this notion was heavily supplied by a steady dose of propaganda, issued in the 70 years since that war that killed one third of the peninsula, about intractable enemies of "democracy." And all of this started because a low-ranking American prole was so proud to relate that he doesn't live in communist China, Russia, or North Korea. As if he frickin' knows.Nobody was linking to pieces about defectors from the US as an implicit defense of the US as a state, though.
As if he frickin' knows.
I'm afraid I don't get this one.And some of the crew speak Portuguese.
You really shouldn't be. You should be interested in what people from outside the west think. Expand your horizons.I'm interested in what you know about what living in North Korea is like.
This was not a funny joke in Berlin in 1945!*rumble rumble rumble*
I think the tanks are getting closer.
They’re easy to ask because they try to keep coming here.You should be interested in what people from outside the west think.
Let me guess, CIA propaganda ? Just for the record, Communist North Korea struck first and attacked South Korea. I don’t know how in the world you can dispute testimonies from North Korean defectors, undercover investigations of the horrid conditions of North Korea as “propaganda”.No, but look, there is no such thing as a perfectly impartial source of information in this world. The idea of North Korea as this unimaginably horrible place to live elides the fact that this notion was heavily supplied by a steady dose of propaganda, issued in the 70 years since that war that killed one third of the peninsula, about intractable enemies of "democracy."
Nice to know how the nomenklatura would think of me and my fellow co-workers . I'm proud enough to know that I'm not living in an authoritarian communist hellscape. "As if he frickin' knows..." My brother in christ, I have read history books on the topic, watch The Cold War YouTube series, actually interacted with people who were from these authoritarian regimes. I had a chinese co-worker when I was working at the casino telling me about the horrible treatment China is giving to Tibet. "As if he frickin' knows", give me a frickin' break.And all of this started because a low-ranking American prole was so proud to relate that he doesn't live in communist China, Russia, or North Korea. As if he frickin' knows.
It’s one thing to have criticisms of the United States, it’s quite another to just poo poo all over the United States. Right now, you’re just taking a big steaming dump on the US cause “Muh United States is an evil empire”. Be lucky that you live in a country where you can freely spew your crap all over the place without the government cracking down on you (Assuming you still live in the US).Would *I* want to live in North Korea? I was raised in America, man. I think that's an incredibly stupid question to ask an American because the baby formula they raised us on is cooked by slaves. You might as well ask an abolitionist if they would rather work the plantations. Of frickin course not.
How about we ask the defectors who fled Cuba, North Korea, China, and all the other Eastern Block nations? Oh wait, It's just CIA Propaganda .You really shouldn't be. You should be interested in what people from outside the west think. Expand your horizons.
Neither was the Holodomor, the red terror after the communist took over Russia, the Soviet response to the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, The Chinese Cultural Revolution, Tienanmen Square protest and massacre in 1989, and many more.This was not a funny joke in Berlin in 1945!
I think the tang ping (lying down flat) phenomenon speaks to a break down of the social contract over there. Yeah, you can "do what you want" to a significant extent, but having a good life seems increasingly difficult in such places today. It's not clear that the lack of political liberties and the 'resulting' stability is giving people the economic security they seem to expect in return.Had a few friends from here live in China. Similar to my time living in a country with an officially authoritarian regime, there's a lot of "do what you want" freedom over there, at least in the 2010s. I am all for democracy. I am not for dictatorships. But we imagine daily life under authoritarian regimes differently than it is.
I’m not saying authoritarianism or dictatorships afford you freedom, let alone stability. Just that what the governments impede and touch at any given moment might be a lot freer than people in USA imagine, in the ways Americans specifically imagine people are not.I think the tang ping (lying down flat) phenomenon speaks to a break down of the social contract over there. Yeah, you can "do what you want" to a significant extent, but having a good life seems increasingly difficult in such places today. It's not clear that the lack of political liberties and the 'resulting' stability is giving people the economic security they seem to expect in return.
I don't live in China, but I understand a little how that feels.
Hey, you and I were there back in the day when it might take only three pages to go from "Do you like pastrami?" to "Is Israel a Racist State?". Seven pages to get to this is a pretty poor showing all things considered.I only read the first page and last page of this thread and wondered how the hecc it went from there to here
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