Post by @cole

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@Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net on hexbear.net Open parent

Cool ableism now get in the pit asshole

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@cole@lemdro.id on lemdro.id Open parent

how the fuck is that ableism

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@Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net on hexbear.net Open parent

Telling me I am “insane” for saying I would rather live somewhere that has housing and health care mandated by the state.

Go fuck yourself. You are falling for racist propaganda against a state designated enemy and need to fucking educate yourself.

Here in “enlightened America” I have the privalege of giving most of my income to a landlord and don’t even get a fucking kitchen.

Fuck you and every other racist capitalist apologist like you. Literally I would not shed a tear over your death if you did not first repent and admit you have been lied to and are perpetuating racist imperialist propaganda because you can’t be fucking bothered to the bare minimum of investigation on the matters on which you speak.

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@cole@lemdro.id on lemdro.id Open parent

I think if you can’t admit the obvious problems with the DPRK then there is no conversation to be had here.

China, I understand. North Korea? I do not.

I certainly do not think that calling me racist out of the blue is helping your case, either.

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@Awoo@hexbear.net on hexbear.net Open parent

if you can’t admit the obvious problems with the DPRK

The problems you’ve only ever absorbed through the lens of extremely dubious western media reporting whose sources for reporting come from either the CIA or NIS(formerly KCIA but renamed to make it less obvious the south is an occupied state) ?

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@cole@lemdro.id on lemdro.id Open parent

EVERYWHERE has its problems.

And yes, that is the DPRK too.

I want to establish that it’s even worth talking by making sure that y’all could budge on anything. otherwise this is a waste of time.

I’m deeply open to new perspectives, and I love to hear them - they widen my world. But I have some experiences already that generally conflict with the messaging here.

I’ve dated a Korean and been to Korea which has influenced me quite a lot.

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@Awoo@hexbear.net on hexbear.net Open parent

EVERYWHERE has its problems.

And yes, that is the DPRK too.

Sure, I don’t deny that. The issue here is what are they? You don’t know. I’ve actually visited and I could talk about some, but they’d be quite different to what you would talk about I suspect.

I’ve dated a Korean and been to Korea which has influenced me quite a lot.

Koreans in the south typically react with surprise whenever anyone on the left refers to what the US did in Korea as a genocide. Most of them have barely any knowledge of the five “republics” before the existing one, the sixth. Unless your partner was a trade unionist within the ROK I generally wouldn’t trust them to know what they’re talking about, much like I don’t trust the average liberal or magat to know what they’re talking about when it comes to the US, its history of barbarism or how it interacts with the world today.

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@Awoo@hexbear.net on hexbear.net Open parent

Hello @cole@lemdro.id you seem to have conveniently ignored my response?

Does every american have equally valid input on america and its politics?

When the next person says “I know someone from Britain and they said London is a no go zone” should I take them automatically seriously?

You dated a Korean, so what? Why should anyone take this one person’s take over serious investigation of the matter?

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cole in !privacy

@cole@lemdro.id · Mar 08

It’s not an intentional snub, I just answered this question in a different reply.

I don’t know with enough certainty to list out all the issues, but the biggest one that sticks out to me is information control.

The government restricts citizens access to the Internet (among other things). I have talked to people from Russia, people from China, etc online. But I have never talked to someone from North Korea and that is a pretty big red flag for me.

I pretty strongly believe that anybody who tries to control the flow of information amongst supposedly free people is not a “good guy”. Yes, this includes the United States, UK, China, etc. Many do so to some extent and I am against all of them for that.

But, none so draconian seeming as the DPRK.

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