The leader of North Korea is the son of the previous leader
how much political authority does he actually have and how much is symbolic and resulting from him being the son of the son of the literal unifier George Washington type hero figure? How much political authority does the King of England have? Oh, actually the King of England could technically do whatever the fuck he wants, politically, the laws are on the books. It’s fine though, he just sits in lavish luxury supported by the British state and definitely doesn’t influence politics through any means whatsoever, not like those DASTARDLY asiatics
just a cursory glance at the DPRK legislature page on wikipedia shows more ideological diversity than any western legislature, they have a whole squadron of fucking social democrat capitalist shitheads, the West wouldn’t even allow a single Bernie Sanders as president and has been shitting its bricks over a SocDem being mayor of NY
Oh wait, does North Korea have a parliamentary system? In that case I can understand keeping someone from the Kim family as a ceremonial President. Wikipedia says they have a Premier, who is the Head of Government. Is that like their Prime Minister?
I think the aggression is warranted considering their original comment was under a post congratulating the DPRK’s womens soccer team. The tone of which was smug and accusatory.
The international dehumanization of DPR Korea has been one of the most severe, nearly incomparable to any other nation today.
But I’ll stop, since I’m sure they got the message.
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The leader of North Korea is the son of the previous leader. And the people are very poor. Overall they are behaving more like a kingdom than a democratic country.
Also sorry but this is the shit liberals IRL around me say with zero shame or excuse and I have to be civil to them or else they’ll ostracize me.
No, they were asking sincere questions and took new information into consideration. You shouldn’t just be heaping the sins of the western world in general on them if you are hoping to communicate something other than your own superiority.
They were not asking sincere questions and certainly did not start off with one, they came fully formed with a anti-DPRK liberal position and had to backtrack on it because it wasn’t based on anything material other than their own assertions.
When they say things like “Don’t they have people dying in famines?” strikes me with the same feeling as “doesn’t hamas hate gay people?” It’s the things you say when you are blindly repeating what you’ve heard and expecting others to pick up the slack for you.
This site will always be aggressive to uneducated liberals who make shitty remarks on posts like these, this will never change.
There’s really not enough in their original comment to assign it any sort of tone especially seeing as english is apparently not their first language. After that initial comment they have been engaging in good faith, conceding when they’re wrong, and doing their own research when prompted.
Liberal or not we could all stand to follow their lead there.
![[CW: Transphobia] Congrats to North Korea for winning the U-17 Woman's World Cup!](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/e0f95f39-e410-42a1-8130-454ce954a438.png){kind=link}
how much political authority does he actually have and how much is symbolic and resulting from him being the son of the son of the literal unifier George Washington type hero figure? How much political authority does the King of England have? Oh, actually the King of England could technically do whatever the fuck he wants, politically, the laws are on the books. It’s fine though, he just sits in lavish luxury supported by the British state and definitely doesn’t influence politics through any means whatsoever, not like those DASTARDLY asiatics
just a cursory glance at the DPRK legislature page on wikipedia shows more ideological diversity than any western legislature, they have a whole squadron of fucking social democrat capitalist shitheads, the West wouldn’t even allow a single Bernie Sanders as president and has been shitting its bricks over a SocDem being mayor of NY
Oh wait, does North Korea have a parliamentary system? In that case I can understand keeping someone from the Kim family as a ceremonial President. Wikipedia says they have a Premier, who is the Head of Government. Is that like their Prime Minister?
https://kfausa.org/dprk-constitution/
You could also read it directly from Koreans themselves, but umm, I guess not.
Chill out, they are clearly just trying to understand. This sniping is totally counterproductive and anti-social.
I think the aggression is warranted considering their original comment was under a post congratulating the DPRK’s womens soccer team. The tone of which was smug and accusatory.
The international dehumanization of DPR Korea has been one of the most severe, nearly incomparable to any other nation today.
But I’ll stop, since I’m sure they got the message.
Edit:
Also sorry but this is the shit liberals IRL around me say with zero shame or excuse and I have to be civil to them or else they’ll ostracize me.
No, they were asking sincere questions and took new information into consideration. You shouldn’t just be heaping the sins of the western world in general on them if you are hoping to communicate something other than your own superiority.
They were not asking sincere questions and certainly did not start off with one, they came fully formed with a anti-DPRK liberal position and had to backtrack on it because it wasn’t based on anything material other than their own assertions.
When they say things like “Don’t they have people dying in famines?” strikes me with the same feeling as “doesn’t hamas hate gay people?” It’s the things you say when you are blindly repeating what you’ve heard and expecting others to pick up the slack for you.
This site will always be aggressive to uneducated liberals who make shitty remarks on posts like these, this will never change.
There’s really not enough in their original comment to assign it any sort of tone especially seeing as english is apparently not their first language. After that initial comment they have been engaging in good faith, conceding when they’re wrong, and doing their own research when prompted.
Liberal or not we could all stand to follow their lead there.