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[–] HellAwaits@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Every lemmy instance should defederate from these losers and we should ship all the users from there to North Korea because they love it so much.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh you don’t like the US? Why don’t you move to [insert country ravaged by US intervention]. Checkmate tankies smuglord

[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

*inserts comically big laughing emoji

Put Canada on that list, we've lost all self identity cuz we just parrot American talking points

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I mean, I wouldn't be opposed to it, though perhaps North Korea might be in a better condition if the United States didn't murder a fifth of their entire population and raze every single building to the ground

The number of Korean dead, injured or missing by war’s end approached three million, ten percent of the overall population. The majority of those killed were in the North, which had half of the population of the South; although the DPRK does not have official figures, possibly twelve to fifteen percent of the population was killed in the war, a figure close to or surpassing the proportion of Soviet citizens killed in World War II.

During the summer and fall, North Korean air defenses were virtually non-existent. Lightly armed, local self-defense units in occupied South Korea could only watch and suffer as their towns and villages were obliterated from the air.5 By the end of the war, North Korea claimed that only two modern buildings remained standing in Pyongyang.

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Is it weird that my USA ignorant ass thought we only went to war with the southern portion of Korea?

Did we help build up SK in exchange for influence on their economic structure as well? Genuine question before I go down this rabbit hole I was never taught in school.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

South Korea was a literal military dictatorship until the late 80s under the watchful eye of uncle sam.

They were the less successful US pet project after Japan. There is a reason that a whole lot of their media is about how capitalism sucks and that they are the heaviest drinkers in the world.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

The Korean War basically isn't taught in public schools in America that I've seen. America was propping up military dictators in the South, it didn't have need to go to war with it because it basically received control of the south from Japan in the aftermath of WWII.

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[–] epicspongee@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Lord I'm still listening to Season 2 of Blowback and haven't gotten to Season 3 yet but I had no clue about this, that's genuinely fucked up

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, it's wild how communism just self-destructs and causes famines all on its own like that thonk

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

okay why would this comment be banned

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

a few of the recent deletion-wave in the modlog are marked as "brigading"

which as we all know is when you comment on posts on your front page

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

how about we ship you to Ukraine eh?

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NOOO the emoji was banned

it was too powerful

[–] somename@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (37 children)
[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You're loud assholes spreading authoritarian propaganda.

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[–] RuthlessCriticism@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Least fascist liberal.