If North Korea is so great, then why aren't people allowed to leave?
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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Motherfucker brings up people suffering in my country that was caused by the country supported by China and DPRK. And pretends it's actually an argument in favour of them. Makes me unreasonably angry.
But don’t you know that Ukraine is a nazi state and the Russians are doing us a favour?
This is very much sarcasm before anyone has a meltdown.
Some of the people in those bombed-out Ukrainian border towns are also "NKians". I feel like those guys are definitely not doing better than the Ukrainians.
How utterly unsurprising. Always the ones you most suspect and all.
Don't worry, like so many other totally-genuine-posters on here, he's never seen a tankie on Lemmy in his life, it's all a shitlib delusion. And Russia isn't that bad! Whatabout the West???
Just like Ensign_Crab, who came here to downvote this to show solidarity with a fellow bootlicker. :)
Yep. Well, if it wasn't for double standards. They wouldn't have any. I suppose I have the basic advantage if you want to call it that. Of my family having suffered genocide and at the hands of Western capitalists on one side. Nazis and Bolsheviks on the other side. But it's just fucking basic consistency to understand the both of them are bad.
Even the Nazis did a few good things for narrowly defined groups. Sane people don't try to justify them as good because of that.
What a surprise! The well off Texan working in the tech industry is a piece of shit. Whoever would have thought?
Why does the tech industry affect people in such a bizarre way?
It's not that tech creates weirdos, it's that weirdos are attracted to tech.
Source: Am weirdo (but the harmless good kind).
I think it's moreso that money has an effect on anyone, regardless of vocation. It's very easy to say whatever you want from a place of privilege.
Least insane tankie take of the day.
I, for one, am trembling in awe of the cutting edge reel-to-reel video technology of these countries.