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[–] whalesmoker@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Some of us are having hard times as dissenter's for being non-white folk or just simply having different views than the Democrats or Republicans. I welcome the discussions about this lol

[–] CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world -3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Can you elaborate on this? I genuinely only wanted to address how arbitrary it seemed to be that someone would go out of their way to just start declaring whole countries as invalid because of American interventionism, which, granted, is not good, to put it super lightly. But I want to know where the need to just inject it wherever comes from.

I'm 100% just having internet arguments here but I don't think I cast the first stone here. The top comment was tailor made for people to engage with. Personally I'm stressed and when I'm stressed I go do shit like this.

[–] whalesmoker@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Personally, I don't know what goes on in North Korea. Nobody does. The media prevents us from seeing North Korea beyond the spectacles that Western media presents. Such as totalitarian tropes, things like that.

[–] CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I agree with that. I'd question any of the info I generally get "from" N.Korea. I would imagine malnutrition is real, although sanctions and blockades are just as responsible as a lack of arable land. I also think Juche would be cool if it wasn't represented by some real weird dudes. Hard to filter the info, I am not an intelligence specialist. Of course this makes it easier to just focus on something else.

[–] whalesmoker@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Really, a lot of the problems with North Korea's economy isexacerbated by international sanctions, which prevent other countries from exporting goods to the North. Part of the reason why they resort to more sneaky and dishonest ways to fund their countries treasury.

[–] whalesmoker@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because the media has manufactured consent and the CIA is known to be an unreliable source of information.

[–] CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is that really it? So what's the perogative, point it out every time Korea comes up?

[–] whalesmoker@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There has been visits to North Korea using investigative journalism, ruling out things like forced state haircuts (sounds ridiculous enough). A lot of these news sources seem to come from dishonest and sensationalised titles and media. I think it's best to look at it from the perspective of investigative media, as North Korea is more secretive than the US media pretends it to not be. So, most reports are just rumours rather than solid investigations.

[–] CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So to wrangle it back to the thread's topic, what does this have to do with S.Korea's markets being in apparent freefall?

[–] whalesmoker@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ask the guy who brought it up haha

[–] CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago

They're very busy trying to pretend to be some sort of activist, I dob't think there's any answers coming from there.

[–] whalesmoker@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Neo-liberal media and neoconservative media always uses their billionaire funded think tanks to promote American imperialism, values and economics unto the world. If you think this strategically, North Korea has a lot of mineral resources that are exploitable by America.