Bobby_2021

@Leo Gura This is the evilness of North Korea. Any country that respects it citizens nicely is evil for you. The bottom line is US is shit scared to see a well functioning socialist leftist state. They bomb it to rubbles and then say it won't work.

Stop consuming South Korean propaganda garbage. Yes, plenty of kids have starved to death thanks to your glorious US regime who enacted cruel sanctions. Not anymore anymore. The HDI rank of NK was 0.766 in 1995 as assessed by the UN. It's medium level of human development. Not "poor and starving". And that was 30 years ago and things would have significantly improved by now. They even have free healthcare and hospitals that would have worked well if not for the crippling sanctions for electrical equipment. Funny because half of the elderly people are actually living in poverty in south Korea.

Yeah letting a few dudes own trillions while letting them milk you is surely the way forward. You don't need to own stuff to enjoy it anyway so what's the big deal.

I would chill out in North Korea rather than slaving out for hangsam in some south Korean shithole. Going by the current demographic trends, South Koreans will eliminate themselves out of the gene pool by slaving your soul out to corporations like this.

Absolutely. First thing to acknowledge is that this was is nothing short of a meat grinder for the Ukraine side. The conscripts are poorly trained and they lack the ammunition to put up a fight. The situation is dire in the frontlines. So the common folks have no interest is losing their lives over nothing. Ukraine has already lost the war. It's over. They are okay with giving up territories in exchange for ending the war. It's not like they have other options. Most of occupied territories have significant Russian speaking population who were mistreated by the Ukrainian side anyway.

Either way it is not about why things happened and blame one or the other. It is to evaluate the state of a nation in context of their history. "This is how the real world works" is a dangerous argument. Especially since what's been working is pretty bloody. Had the USSR went on a bombing spree citing stupid reasons, the world would have been a much different place.

There were significant factions of Communists even in South Korea which have been occupied by US. They were peasants compared to the industrial North. North was about to liberate the South from the foreign forces and reunite since there were artificially divided in the first place.

You are used to the bitter taste? I need something else to counter the bitter taste. Other than that coffee is the best in the world.

Because maybe it's cruel to starve thousands of kids to death? Plenty of social programs are there.

There is no concept of "their" wealth in China. The elites who rich from capitalism never owned anything. Everything is owned by the CCP. That is their system of governance. You don't need to voluntarily give up wealth, when you don't own any in the first place. Any notion of ownership in China hinges on leasing it from ccp for a limited time.

NK was bombed to hell because US was paranoid of anything communism. NK didn't steal trillions in foreign assets. It's the US and UK that stole trillions from the middleast under the guise for spreading freedom and democracy. Blame NK for caricature framing as if they are going to kill us all isn't helping. NK was much better economically and developmentally than the South before the bombing in the 1950s.

@Jacob Morres That's true, but right is still consistent. They say they hate diversity and actually hates diversity. But the left says they love freedom from oppression and women's rights and chooses to side with the religion that oppresses women the most. It's that inconsistency.

They are similar, in terms of the destruction inflicted on them directly or indirectly with US support. no, from my experience. It is doing everything it can in their power. It is operating under sanctions and it can only do so much.

What a spectacular capitalist propaganda. Next time you whine about single mothers not getting paid enough and workers being forced to pee bottles by Jeff Bezos, then maybe that is not a viable form of government as well. Who are you to say what is viable and what is not? And even if it not viable, what gives them the right to bomb 85% of their North Korean infrastructure? No system of government would be viable when you burn down 85% of a country. duhh. Your version of real politik is US being able to steal trillion of the world's wealth (something that communists merely threatened to do), bomb and destabilize continents and prohibit the rest of the world from trading with them.

Wholly agree with this. 1. Means of production exists in society. 2. Humans will operate the means of production. Communists operating means of productions does not make them full blown capitalist like the US. It is not like US is the only place in the world where means of production exists, and their way is the only of handling means of production. US = Free market capitalism with minimal state intervention and individual ownership. Works well to bring slow, but steady and consistent growth, but stagnates and corrupts itself in the later stages. USSR = Heavy State controlled capitalism with zero free market. Uplifted millions from poverty while working in an insulated economy. Unsustainable in the long run. China = Hybrid mixture State intervention + Free market + State owned + Individual owned. Combines the best of US and USSR. Chinese system is far more complicated than anything we have seen before. You simply cannot put China into any neat category at all. The thing is you cannot own land in China, but you can own what is built on top of it as a lease of some sort. It is messy. CCP has the final word in everything. But hey it works. This deviation is not a violation of Marxian theory. Capitalism is merely a stage in the evolution to communism. Much like feudalism was a precursor to Capitalism. This is exactly what 19 century communism says. China is not remotely capitalist either according to the US definitions. If you can accept that US is capitalist, then China is not capitalist. World of difference. It a regime with a communist vision partially co-opting capitalism as a steppingstone to proper communism, exactly as mentioned in the textbook. China is the actual communism.

Ukraine will be defeated either way. How much blood they want to spill is the question? Or how long until they collapse. I give it 3-6 months. Or 9 months if you stretch it at max. Unlikely they will last beyond that.

Is it true that NK is fighting Ukraine alongside Russia? NO. But we all think of the same, discuss it as if it is reality. So the propaganda piece has worked. It created a false picture in your mind which evokes emotions that could be funneled for alterior purposes. That is how propaganda works my friends.

Most people are escaping for better economic opportunities, which is the case for almost all countries who got ruined from a colonial past.

That is just that. South Korean is racist af. The weird perception you have about North Korea is manufactured exclusively by "sources" coming from the South. Which are lies and propaganda. This is like trusting Israel to report what's happening in Gaza. They will always lie and cheat in the most flagrant of ways. Which is why if you pay close attention you will know that most news about North Korea will go by "South Koreans intelligence reports" followes by some weird characterization of NK. A good idea is to halt the weapons shipments to some ongoing genocide and funnel it to Ukraine. That is something I would agree.

This is the quintessential demonstration of propaganda in the real world. I didn't even watch it at first because I knew it would be crap, and it is. Notice how he doesn't give any solid confirmation about NK troops fighting in Ukraine. All he cares is to imprint the idea of NK troops fighting in Ukraine so that he can rally more support from the general public to keep up this bullshit war. And he is "concerned" about NK troops in Ukraine. Fuck offf. He is not concerned about Ukraine nor Korea nor Russia. Typical propaganda hit piece. Now I have no confirmation either. Every country conducts joint military exercises. There is just not enough confirmation to make that claim.

You guys have to understand this: Every news about North Korea that comes from South Korea is meant to denigrate the North Korea. It's a propaganda piece. Because South Koreans are racist towards North Koreans. No North Korean troops is engaged in the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. They are there for joint training at best. https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-chief-says-cannot-confirm-reports-north-korean-troops-russia-possible-2024-10-19

That is the denial of @Leo Gura South Korea got investments and help from the west while NK got sanctions after 1953. That is all the difference. And people pretend like sanctions aren't a thing. It's the most important thing after bombs of course.

Go into right wing twitter circles. Work out in the gym. Put yourself in uncomfortable places. Yes they are retards, but they have plenty of stuff where you could learn valuable shit. It could help you where you are. That's all I will say. But you being unstable might swing the other direction is my only concern. You need to put yourself out there which is the jist of being young and wild.

To answer your question, yes. They oppress women in daylight and give zero fucks about it. Even bigger of a question that baffled me is this: why the left side with Islam?

Dude don't ride on Leo's back as if you are making some deep point. Either you engage with me on facts or pay attention to the discourse enough to properly understand the matter enough to engage. Leo is peddling typical 20th century western propaganda which was hell bent on bombing every single communist uprising to rubbles and to steal all their natural resources and enslave their citizens. This is the facts. And there was no one to meaningfully counter the US. Until now. Chinese communists have beaten you at your own game and you are in petty denial of it. Capitalism is simply a precursor to Communism. No Marxist theory is being violated in the case of China. You need to seriously bend the facts if you have to seriously assert that a country where there is no land ownership is seriously capitalist. Get real.