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USA and brutal dictatorships, name a more iconic duo!
Russia and brutal dictatorships? They're both up there
Lets just say “superpowers and brutal dictatorships”.
Whoevers dominating in a period in history generally didn’t get there by advocating for peace and self determination.
North Korea and brutal dictatorship
The Kims never killed 30 thousand people in a few days
The Kims did starve to death a magnitude more over a handful of years.
People always say this to but I don't think it's even true, or misrepresents greatly the situation.
North Korea was the better place to live until the collapse of the USSR and mid-90s famine. That's not up for debate. Their living standard and quality of life were overall much higher than ROK thanks to Russian subsidies.
North Korea has far less farmland than the ROK, which has many more river valleys and warmer latitudes. North Korea also lacks trading partners due to sanctions, while ROK currently imports around 80 percent of its food.
The US and ROK time their military drills specifically to fuck with DPRK's planting and harvesting seasons, forcing them to divert manpower to defense positions when they need able-bodied men to be on farms.
Given these three points, I think North Korean hunger is almost entirely due to the US and its policies. But nobody likes to hear that the Kims might not be horrible monsters
imagine simping for NK like this lol.
Why don't you directly address my points instead?
Why it's NK. Enough said
OK so you will just rely on thought-terminating cliché to go through life. Nice
Don't you have Nazis to be giving standing ovations to right now?
You mean the Nazi that was invited by the house speaker without any background checks and then stepped down after he found out? Yes I'm aware of that. What's the point your trying to make.
Brain in a box likes to make red herring arguments
I see I've picked up another stalker
Haha you wish
Brain likes to say that without realizing that the feddiverse really isn't that big and that they post a lot.
How did I make a red herring argument? You just did that saying I'm giving standing ovations to Nazis when I'm not doing that at all. also my great uncle was in a working camp during WW2 so thanks for spitting on my family saying I'm giving standing ovations to Nazis.
I didn't say you made a red herring, I said brain in a box did.
Yeah sure, they just brought a random person into the house to give an ovation to for "fighting Russia in world war two", and nobody bothered to do even cursery research on who he was or if he was even telling the truth. Very plausible.
Why are you telling me this I'm not the liberal government? Again what does this have to do with North Korea?
Why it’s Canada. Enough said
So you think Canadians across the country stood up in front of their TV and clapped like seals when someone said they were a Ukrainian war vet that fought Russia. Ok buddy I don't know what else to tell you, but you have some crazy ideas.
Imagine simping for Canada like this, lol.
How the fuck is that "simping"?
How many regimes did NK install themselves?
Democracy has been a relatively recent form of government in the grand scheme of things.
The way the US has been acting, they never seemed to think that democracy is a good form of government, either.