AEHNHIf you call this journalism I swear by Allah I will shoot myself right here
Aria š³ļøāā§ļøš§š© [she]i swear, western news media is just purposely screwing with people at this point
Cyber GhostIt is the Washington Post which is owned by Bezos. What do you expect?
I Cast FistāKim Jong Unās hairdo continues to be absolutely trash. Hereās 5 reasons why bald guys are the best things on Earthā - Another headline from a bezos owned property, I suppose
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rjs001I donāt even know how a liberal could take this seriously
Never underestimate the endless wilful stupidity and bigotry of liberals. They just need any excuse at all.
Really wonder what a persons political leaning has to do with bad journalism
SovereignStateEverything. Do you believe in āunbiasedā reporting?
Didnāt really think that comment through in hindsight; especially considering thereās a lot of politically biased articles are out there.
Although the original comment felt a lot like it was trying to say anything left leaning would be bad journalism, which is a BS way of approaching this kind of problem
I understand what you are saying. I do not think āunbiasedā news exists, and outright prefer when the biases of news outlets are presented front and center.
I recommend checking out the YT channel First Thought for important world news. Theyāre really fast on the trigger, and do not hide their leftist bias one bit. āThe most biased news showā, they call it. I respect it far more than bourgeois outlets owned by literal billionaires peddling propaganda while pretending to be unbiased.
As soon as the DPRK comes up, what brain cells remain for critical thinking immediately shut down. You can say literally anything about the DPRK, as long as it is negative they will eat it up.
Water Bowl SlimeNorth Korea ate my lunch and peed my pants šš”
š³ļøāā§ļø ę°ę [she/they]North Korea delivered Travis King to the cannibal Kim Jong Un, who ate him alive
Theyāre just trying to say it will be harder for him to āthrow his weight around.ā
Iāll leave now. :P
ImOnADietšµšø (He/Him)Top tier title haha
Honestly is this even real? Wtf is that lack of spell checking, āporedā instead of āpouredā???
It seems silly, but it could indicate that he is either taking care of himself now, even he canāt get enough food, or he is sick. All of this could have implications for the Kim regime and their relationships with the external world.
Best case scenario is a slow and steady retreat from dictatorship into a more democratic governance model. I donāt think thatāll happen, but I donāt feel too chipper about a relatively feeble and economically and politically unstable country purchasing any nuclear arms at all.
Nocturne DragoniteYour usage of ādictatorshipā to describe the Democratic Peopleās Republic of Korea along with the rest of your statement shows your ignorance about the entire country.
I donāt feel too chipper about a relatively feeble and economically and politically unstable country purchasing any nuclear arms at all.
So then the US should get rid of their nukes, correct?
Uh america has problems but how is a leading economy on the planet āunstableā in any way compared to north Korea?
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Lol nah. Iāve seen video of family homes, and public spaces with the sr. and the jr.
typical braindead liberal
literacy is a gift and you fucking waste it. Shameful and sad.
The audacity of Amerikrackers to kill 20% of a nationās population and then call everyone in that nation crazy and brainwashed for fighting backā¦ itās incredible.
Tangentially, hereās a painting of George Washington literally becoming God. Itās in the capital rotunda.
LuqmanāŖļøAll of this has convinced me that AmeriKKKa is not a country, its a evil fascist death-worshipping cult.
So instead of reading and gaining valuable information about something you know nothing of you reject it. Why?
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QueerCommieCould the second, third, and fourth largest bank collapses in US history a couple months ago be an indicator of the stability of the economy? (Not to mention how they were acquired by the literal riskiest bank)
Dunno, have global investors fled?
The label of dictatorship by itself is not a meaningful indicator due to the constant redefinition of words by the Liberals. The Liberals had redefined dictatorship to mean absolutism and no 20th century Communist countries use dictatorship to refer to a political system where one people have absolute power. I could also suspect that the Soviets did not realized that the Western European diaspora redefine dictatorship to mean absolutism. The accusation that USSR, other Communist countries, or Non-European diaspora populist government support absolutism is a better indicator that a person either know nothing about the people who they are criticizing or that they are lying. However, I do agree that the US should follow the moral standard that it imposes on non-western European diaspora and remove its nuke, especially when Pax Americana supporters claimed that violence was never the solution. The Liberals like Fukuyama used Cold War as an āexampleā that āLiberalā pacifism is a better solution than violence to end war.
So I think I was pretty tired when I wrote that. But in case I wasnāt clear, I meant that I donāt like the thought of countries, such as North Korea, who are only relatively stable, in possession of nuclear arms.
I really was not talking about the United States. We have our own issues, but I donāt think weāre about to start any nuclear wars on a whim. Yes our politics are pretty screwed up at the moment, but I donāt see it as likely that any yahoos, like that bodily fluids air force guy in Dr. Strangelove, can just start a nuclear exchange.
No, I donāt think the US is going to give up itās nukes anytime soon, thereās lots of politics in play, and half the point of NATO is that itās under the protection of the US nuclear umbrella.
By dictatorship I mean a government with extreme accumulation of government, and usually military, power in less than a handful of individuals with ineffective or even lack of democratic elections.
ExotiqueMatterBy dictatorship I mean a government with extreme accumulation of government, and usually military, power in less than a handful of individuals with ineffective or even lack of democratic elections.
In order to be able to tel if a government is a dictatorship or a democracy, one has to know how said government works first. Make sense, right?
So, in order to make sure youāre not talking out of your ass here, I have to ask you the question: What do you know about the inner workings of the government of the DPRK? What are the component parts of the government, their function and how are their members choosen? How many and what parties are there and how do they take part in politics? What position does Kim Jong Un occupy? Do you know any other polititians beside him? Is there any elections?
If you canāt answer any of these questions, on what basis exactly are you claming that the DPRK is a dictatorship?
Are you posting from North Korea?
Wow, I didnāt expected a āthey payed you to say thatā kind of argument so soon (unless thatās somehow not what youāre implying here). You already out of talking points to throw at us 4 measly comments in the conversation?
Iām actually from france, but just for the sake of argument, letās pretend you are right: I am a fealthy fed payed by the big bad dictatorship to spread propaganda, youāve unmasked me, you most intelligent random internaut had piersed the secret, your gazed, sharpened by nights and days of scrowling through thousands of internet shitposts, has seen through my digital mask, what a trully amazing intellect, what a brilliant insight, congratulation, sherlok holmes called, he want you on his team.
So what? Is that all you can oppose to my pro autoritarian propaganda? Do you not want to warn others of my terrible and dangerous actions? As a fervent defender of democracy, should you not make sure to dismentle my argument so that poor souls stumbling on this post and on the verge of getting brainwashed by my evil propaganda could see my devious ploy for what it is and not fall to my evil conspiracy? Surely, as a citizen of the free and democratic world, the last, proudly standing bastillon of liberty on this earth consumed by autoritarianism you canāt let that happen! You canāt stand still, just letting such a weak responce and risk to make your side, the side of FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY, look less resonable than the evil totalitarians, the side that defend a dictator that eat all the food his country produce all by himself and surely eat babys as well! Can you?
So what are you doing? Where is your responce to my argument? What arenāt you using that mesmerizing intelect of yours, that sharp and precise analysis and that flawless deducting skills that you have, that had seen through my digital mask, seen the sham for what it is, to counter me? Where is the ruthless and effective dismenteling of my argument? Where is the methodic dissecting point by point? Where is the witty yet proffound comeback? Surely, since Iām nothing but a dirty propaganda shill lying through his teeth it canāt be hard for you, Ć enlightened westerner, to show with sources and logic that Iām a dirty liar, can it?
Surely, you are able to anwer my questions right? Of course you are! You are so incredibly intelligent, you have shown us such a deep insight, such a profound reflection, your previous responce is such an intricate condensate of witt and unchallengable pure logic it has me trembling at the mear thought of what you could respond to this one. I canāt wait to read your carfull and toughtfull dismenteling of the so called north corean ādemocracyā exposing the evil dictatorship for what it is!
Honestly I donāt really have skin in the game aside from being a human on this earth. Iām not going to respond to your whole thing because it is not worth it. Iām not trying to pick a fight with you.
Strange that this ostensibly weak and unstable nation has such a strong intelligence agency so as to be able to pay us to defend them online.
FWIW Iām a broke statesian. Hereās the thing as well, you parrot propaganda and then disengage when it is examined critically and thoroughly, something many of us have devoted literal days of our lives doing.
I am more aware of the inner workings of the DPRK state than any bourgeois ājournalistā. Many of us are. If youād like to learn with us, Iād suggest not implicitly accusing us of being bots or paid actors.
Okay, give me a paragraph or two about why the dpkr is misunderstood.
A paragraph or twoā¦ I mean, I can give you a couple of examples I suppose.
Kim Il-sung is called the āEternal Presidentā not because of some esoteric, Oriental mysticism that posits that he is still president of the DPRK, but because he was the first and last president of the DPRK. He is the eternal president quite literally, and itās fucking weird how much western media obsesses over this as if northern Koreans believed his spirit still ruled over them or something.
The DPRK never āabandonedā Marxism-Leninism or socialism in favor of āKimilsungism-Kimjongilismā or Juche. The WPK are scientific socialists, and honest science necessitates changes in understanding and practice. Juche is not an economic system, Juche is a sociopolitical ideal intended to rectify the contradictions between the self and the other, between the individual and the community, between the proletarian, the professional and the intellectual. Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism could be read more closely as Socialism with Korean Characteristics, if one would want to. It is not deviation or abandonment.
āSupreme Leaderā is a term often weaponized to evoke that same sense of Oriental mysticism and brainwashing.
The DPRKās parliament is called the Supreme Peopleās Assembly. The WPK leads the SPA. What do you think the chairman of the WPK (a position which Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-un were all elected to) would be called?
I am unsure what else to say. DPRK is great on disability rights. A majority of the country has a mobile phone. There are video games in hospitals. People eat groceries. Kids go to school. The beaches look wonderful. Pyongyang has a fantastic public tram service.
Any time a news outlet claims DPRKorea said something negative about other āracesā (notably in that shitpile āThe Cleanest Raceā) they are deliberately mistranslating the word ānationā or ānationalityā in order to construct the narrative they desire. Any specific questions?
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CriticalResist8it could indicate that he is either taking care of himself now
I think itās this one yes
Best case scenario is a slow and steady retreat from dictatorship into a more democratic governance model
You got all that from looking at Kim Jong-Un losing weight?? Can you read my oracle bones too?
The bones say that you will have more fortune if you order real chicken wings instead of boneless.
The word ācouldā is doing massive work in that headline
DamarcusArtItās fascinating how the west will claim that the DPRK worships this guy and his every action and bowel movement is mentioned on the evening news over there, but like, the only place actually obsessing over what his personal habits are is the west.
You donāt think his own country is fascinated?
About his eating habits? Not particularly, no.
Like they donāt have photos of them on the wall
They donāt have him carved into a mountain.
Like it would be uncarved? That was created a century ago. Nothing to be proud of. Iām not moving the goalposts, Iām pointing out it doesnāt matter. The point isnāt the statue/picture, itās the obligation.
They have pictures of the dear leader everywhere TODAY. The point is they are forced to venerate them now.
If it doesnāt really matter, and everything is the same, go to Pyongyang, and denounce then in public. Compare that to denouncing a past or even current president either at Mount Rushmore or on Pennsylvania Ave.
forced to venerate them now
Source?
MeowZedongTheir ass.
The DPRK has only existed as a political entity for 75 years. Kim Il-sung is their founding father. He died in 1994.
Do you expect them to not venerate him to some extent? The WPK ejected the Japanese and Amerikan imperialists who raped and murdered millions of Koreans ā who stripped them of their national and cultural heritage, their language, their names, their fucking humanity. The WPK brought that all back. Kim Il-sung was chairman.
Kim Jong-il was his son and helped manage to maintain Korean sovereignty in the face of the collapse of most of the socialist world, in the face of the west turning its guns towards the now destabilized smaller socialist nations. He died in 2011.
If Abraham Lincoln died 12 years ago, how do you think Amerikans would treat his memory? If George Washington died 30 years agoā¦
I do not know why I waste my time. Maybe for those reading this actually interested in learning, for those reading this that are not so horribly racist as to utterly dehumanize an entire people. Your complete ignorance of the ways Amerikan civil religion permeates this nation is very telling, as is your abstraction between Amerikan and Other civil religions.
I live on Washington street. It borders Monroe street and Jefferson street. All literal slaveowners. Yet you take umbrage with a nationās reverence for the man who helped lead his people in liberating themselves from people with mindsets just like yours. Those poor, brainwashed Koreans. They just need to be Westernized/Japanized/liberalized/vaporized/insert-whatever-racist-bullshit-you-believe-here, right? Not like theyāre human beings with the agency to make their own fucking choices. Fuck you.
Hey, thanks for writing this up. I really enjoyed the passion that youāve used to write this.
commiespammerYep. Even if the liberals donāt give a shit there are always comrades who enjoy learning.
Americans are so used to their leaders being dogshit useless racists that they literally canāt fathom that another nationās leaders actually earned the admiration they get.
Says the one moving the goalposts.
Having a picture of your leader is when you are also when you are obsessed with his every bodily function, apparently.
If I were kept starving Iād be fascinated by the eating habits of literally anyone who had enough to eat.
Love to see you feed a population after having your entire country reduced to rubble.
The DPRK is food insecure because of sanctions imposed by your evil ass country. The DPRK is food insecure because they are still rebuilding from the carnage wrought by your sadistic idols.
Who told you everyone is starving, anyway? Or is it just ācommon knowledgeā, you illiterate fool?
I donāt know if this article is new, but if I recall correctly there was a bunch of articles like this around the second wave of COVID, as people were speculating he had dropped a ton of weight due to being super sick. If this is from that time, thatās probably the angle they were going for, rather than gossiping about his eating habits like a tabloid magazine.