I think if you didn't have enough of a motive to leave Twitter before, Musk leading an advisory department within the US government and purposefully corrupting democracy (as little as was left of it anyway) should be all reason you need to finally make your move.
nobody showed up :(
Big fan of terminal leftist brainrot. When you hate the US so much that it completely blinds you to the corruption of other states. The west has an awful relationship with North Korea, so Surely it is actually quite great and everyone there actually has better conditions than Americans do!
And, well, there are certainly hoards of misinformation and propaganda against NK. A lot of it is fueled by racism too! But that doesn't mean the state isn't oppressive or cruel towards its people. Communist groups online always attract a handful of western NK defenders and it's hilarious. These are people who have generally progressive values and believe victims of abuse (systemic or otherwise), yet they manage to say that every single defector is actually just lying for western clout or a RFA pawn. Even the ones who time and time again refuse interviews and media attention, but still share the same stories, all of them are actually part of psyops.
its an odd choice to frame it as only ever terminal leftist brainrot outsiders who hate the US that defends NK and not you know, people actually from NK but i am sure this says nothing about OP as a person.
definitely not as though we have first hand accounts from visitors and defectors that have positive things to say about the DPRK. i wonder why the popular perception of the state is negative? i wonder if the defectors who get popular by lying about their experiences have some sort of incentive to do so? not like there's any motivation to vilify the state and create justification for the inhumane sanctions that are levied against it.
oh yeah i agree 100%. its the same with china. I actually have a lot of issues with the way the country is ran and i dont think the current government is actually good for the people nor do i agree with people who still act like china is a communist country, nor do i agree with a lot of the people i follow who act like we must support Russia or that a russian victory is a good thing. There will always be people who are going to speak out against any government, but it always bothers me that there is just so much focus on people who say negative things, but people who just either live a normal life or say postive things are disregarded. Like OP focuses so much on NK defectors but then just ignores all the NK people living a normal life.
Hi. What the hell.
"OP focuses so much on NK defectors but then just ignores all NK people living a normal life" I made this post out of frustration, based on my experiences within specific communist forums and communities. Specifically because time and time again I've seen people write off every single defector's story as pure fiction.
"i am sure this says nothing about OP as a person" yeah, actually, it doesn't. Actually, you don't know anything about me or my beliefs. Actually, a post someone makes in a vacuum expecting nobody but their followers to see isn't a great indicator of their personal views. You may notice the only tag under my original post was "politics," and the tag was there purely so people who have politics blacklisted wouldn't have to deal with a random disorganized rant.
You may also notice I made sure to say that there is a lot of misinformation and western propaganda against NK. Shocker, I am capable of understanding North Korea isn't the absolute hellhole media outlets would like you to believe it is. What else, I am also more than aware that the sanctions against NK are the source of many of its current issues, terrible sanctions which are often imposed on countries that refuse to submit to Capitalist rule, Cuba being another obvious victim of such schemes. And more! I actively enjoy watching videos from tourists who visit NK, it's been something I've been doing for years and I have considered visiting one day! Wow! Isn't it awesome how people have multifaceted opinions? What I strongly dislike is the borderline worship I've seen from some people in very specific parts of the internet. That's what this post is about. Why then do I not provide specific examples of this behavior? Because it wasn't meant to be a discussion. It wasn't meant to be an argument. It's a short ramble, on my blog, because that's where I often post about random subjects that cross my mind. If I wanted to start a proper conversation this post would have a dozen or so tags. You know what else I post on this blog? Sexy muscled superheroes. Clearly this isn't an account dedicated to doing in-depth analysis of geopolitics.
Like, you mention you have criticisms of China, and you say you don't agree with people who still consider China communist. So then, please imagine you make an unstructured rant around those criticisms, don't intend for anyone but your friends to see, and suddenly strangers begin commenting about how you're being unfair because you did not acknowledge every nuance in the book. Let's maybe not make assumptions based on a two-paragraph post.
But I'm admittedly still thinking about how you said I "focused so much" on defectors. I'm baffled by this, I didn't focus on anything. I only brought them up at the end of the post... And it was in the context of how it bothers me that I've seen people in MLM communist communities immediately accuse every single defector of being a bullshitter, sometimes using outright insults, despite being people who hold progressive views. Y'know, views which contradict the immediate dismissal of victims' stories.
Big fan of terminal leftist brainrot. When you hate the US so much that it completely blinds you to the corruption of other states. The west has an awful relationship with North Korea, so Surely it is actually quite great and everyone there actually has better conditions than Americans do!
And, well, there are certainly hoards of misinformation and propaganda against NK. A lot of it is fueled by racism too! But that doesn't mean the state isn't oppressive or cruel towards its people. Communist groups online always attract a handful of western NK defenders and it's hilarious. These are people who have generally progressive values and believe victims of abuse (systemic or otherwise), yet they manage to say that every single defector is actually just lying for western clout or a RFA pawn. Even the ones who time and time again refuse interviews and media attention, but still share the same stories, all of them are actually part of psyops.
Just a reminder that Frederick Banting, discoverer of the process to synthesise insulin, sold the patent for $1 because it was so important to him that it be widely available and easily mass produced. Yes, you should be angry.
