Occupied Korea
Occupied Korea
so cute the way he edited the title, the article originally says South Korea. He legitimately made the conscious effort to change the title of an article and posted it to a worldnews community. So strange they think North Korea is a paradise, it’s really weird.
The comments are great as well, right-click to view.
How dare you use whataboutism! only I AM allowed to use whataboutism! Banned!
Normal people?
I don’t get the circle jerk. It doesn’t matter
I wouldn’t say he’s a moron. He is filthy rich though, his extremely wealthy family fled from Russia to Canada, and naturally it’s landed him a pretty cushy job where he doesn’t need to do anything. He posts 25-50 times daily, every day, for five years and that’s just on Lemmy. He posts on other sites too.
He is the bourgeoisie, and that must drive him mad. Probably explains his oddities
It’s a shame Tankies don’t have any values they stand upon, oh well, they are all harmless afterall.
Ah
So he is pretty much a Russian Oligarch. Actually that checks out.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I’m guessing they’re neudivergent and incredibly misinformed, so they put all of their efforts defending a completely wrong ideology they somehow got stuck on.
It’s one of those things where yes, you can recognize that the US supported an inhumane regime in the south that was at least 50% the reason why Korea was pushed to civil war, simply for its own selfish geopolitical purposes… while also recognizing that there’s been a lot of water under the bridge since then. And while the South made good progress on its governance, the North went totally the opposite way.
But when your brain is fueled on “everything the US is against, I must support”, such considerations go out the window.
It’s one of those things where yes, you can recognize that the US supported an inhumane regime in the south that was at least 50% the reason why Korea was pushed to civil war,
Bruh, the South Korean regime before democratization was terrible, but the human rights standards of either Korea had very little to do with why civil war broke out. Both Koreas agreed that there was only one Korea, but the Soviet occupied North had already established itself as a ML regime and was uninterested in the UN supervised elections.
It’s not quite so straightforward. If I recall my history correctly there were several opportunities for the North and South to work something out but to a large degree Syngman Rhee blocked it because he insisted on his own dictatorship rather than devolving any power to various labor-run initiatives around the country. That, and killing a bunch of unionizers of course. It is true the Soviets had their own outcome they were angling for, but without US support Rhee would probably have been forced out and a compromise could have been reached.
Broadly speaking the Soviets were a lot less interested in securing outright puppet regimes than the US. History shows they were more reactive than proactive, so had the US backed off they might well have left it alone.
Rhee blocked initiatives after he was in power, but the refusal of the Soviets to engage in the UN-endorsed elections before Rhee was established was the core issue of there not being one Korea instead of two. Everything after that was “Southern dictatorship vs. Northern dictatorship”, yeah.
Rhee was a piece of shit that we supported, though, no doubt.
Broadly speaking the Soviets were a lot less interested in securing outright puppet regimes than the US. History shows they were more reactive than proactive, so had the US backed off they might well have left it alone.
… I beg your pardon