• FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    In the DPRK, they put political dissidents in prison camps.

    In the rest of the world, agitators and terrorists are put in prisons that aren’t camps.

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      From a recent funny thread:

      I usually don’t get bothered by people on the Internet, but holy fucking shit how I was absolutely going crazy over the fact that people unironically shill North Korea.

      I’m Korean. We are under constant threat of shit balloons and missiles. They punish people and their family members for trying to leave the country. How can one possibly look at that and say, “Yep, that’s fine”?

      Meanwhile the actual, very scary NK apologist rhetoric on lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, and Hexbear: the DPRK is just another country and doesn’t deserve to be an outcast and pariah for doing things every country does, like have prisons, a military, and emigration controls.

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        We are under constant threat of shit balloons and missiles.

        Just yesterday we have article posted here saying that in 2024, there were 275 days of US war exercises on the Peninsula, and that record is expected to be broken again this year. One side is under relentless threat by a world hegemon with military costing more than 7 next ones combined, and has been for over 70 years. And it’s not the South.

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        .world makes me wonder how much is intentional propaganda and how much is actually genuine every day

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    somehow, north korea is a FANTASTIC litmus test to find out if the person you’re speaking with is heavily propagandized or not.

    that shit is literally public record now thanks to the freedom of information act and that the fact that an overwhelming majority of americans still believe in the american propaganda nonetheless is astounding; it’s like they WANT to be misinformed.