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Psycho Society
Oct 21, 2010

Repo Man posted:





A seventeen year old who thinks he knows the answer to the world's problems.

He identifies as a t-70 scout tank you bigot

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Secular Humanist
Mar 1, 2016

by Smythe
is there literally even one single immigrant who came to the US with nothing and worked to make a good living who thinks the US sucks? like, i don't think i've ever heard one, and it seems like they'd be the best judge of how lovely our systems really are given that they had to work their way up through those systems first hand.

its usually just gigantic-douchebag 20 year olds making the case for totally-not-communism though.

Repo Man
Nov 19, 2005

Psycho Society posted:

He identifies as a t-70 scout tank you bigot

Along those lines...





Teikanmi
Dec 16, 2006

by R. Guyovich
Them he sure looks like a she

Secular Humanist
Mar 1, 2016

by Smythe
Transtrender :smug:

(no but seriously she is)

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
I identify as a Mosin-Nagant.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
A good friend from my school days was a big-time teenage tankie who spent his twenties wandering between different ideologies. Now we're in our thirties and after Trump got elected, BAM, back to being a tankie again.

Sometimes you can't keep a T-34 down.

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations
i appreciate how the dumbs on twitter use their profile blurb to succinctly summarize all their dumb incorrect ideas about everything and themselves like wow thanks for the heads up i mightve had to read some of your tweets before realizing you were some worthless rear end in a top hat

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
what's interesting about B.R. Myers' research is that Juche -- "self-reliant socialism" or something like that -- is basically a wholly-concocted fake doctrine designed for gullible foreign audiences and leftists in other countries, and is uhh quite different from what North Koreans receive, which is more like insane Nazi poo poo / “Obama’s gut-wrenching, revolting facial features" means "he should live as a monkey in an African natural zoo licking the breadcrumbs thrown by spectators."

there are "inner" and "outer" propaganda lines. kim il sung mentioned Juche a few times, always to foreign audiences (a trip to india, to some japanese reporters, etc.) and then western left-wing academics basically built an entire body of scholarship on it as explaining north korea's actions lmao.

"songun" or military-first ideology and race-based nationalism (aimed at uniting the korean race) is actually more like north korea's real ideology. the whole drat country is practically a giant barracks.

this is a good listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aepwppHT6Fc

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Mar 29, 2017

Lote
Aug 5, 2001

Place your bets
The two Koreas right now are a good argument for why children of rulers make lovely leaders even though they have shinier toys and more opportunities.

Edit: Also lol that the mystic advisor person to Park couldn't make a dumb prophecy that Park's Presidency would not last the full term because of something bad happening. Given the father getting merc'd by the KCIA, you would think that the Rasputin character would come up with something to predict Park's Presidency ending in disaster.

Lote fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Mar 29, 2017

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
i think the Kims have done well with what they had available to them

Pretty good
Apr 16, 2007



:yikes:

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



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chernobyl kinsman posted:

castro bad but at least there are aspects of cuba and cuban life that aren't so abjectly horrifying as to border the surreal

this is not the case for north korea, the literal worst place in the world

Hey man I mean it's very loving bad but objectively the worst place in the world is the Central African Republic because it is literally a hellmouth.

Secular Humanist
Mar 1, 2016

by Smythe

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

Hey man I mean it's very loving bad but objectively the worst place in the world is the Central African Republic because it is literally a hellmouth.

yeah that scene in blood diamond where the gang who cuts peoples hands off shoots an 8 year old kid up with heroin is a thing that happens all the time in that part of the world...

sorry north koreans, but that's just too hosed

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
it would be neato if the DPRK collapses and all those gazillions of AK-47s and what-else floods into the U.S. shooter marketplace.

North Korean rifles at every gun show!

chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

a friend of the friendly atom

Soiled Meat

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

Hey man I mean it's very loving bad but objectively the worst place in the world is the Central African Republic because it is literally a hellmouth.

i dont really count the places that are constantly-burning bloodsoaked plains of murdered children bc thats kinda cheating tbf

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

Repo Man posted:





A seventeen year old who thinks he knows the answer to the world's problems.

this just happens the first time you start understanding subtext

if you're not a retard it happens as a teenager

but it doesnt stop happening

Junk
Dec 20, 2003

Listen to reason, man. Why make your job difficult?
Hmm... I dunno guys, maybe there is something to this whole North Korea Is Good thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FigiHdJQMjg

Zombiepop
Mar 30, 2010
North Korea bad, USA bad. Most countries seem bad imo, faroe islands and iceland seems p nice tho.

Also having a fuc in nk would be the most awesome/terrifying fuc ever.

Like are you allowed to bone a nice NK girl if you had the chance? in NK ofc.

Punk da Bundo
Dec 29, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

Zombiepop posted:

North Korea bad, USA bad. Most countries seem bad imo, faroe islands and iceland seems p nice tho.

Also having a fuc in nk would be the most awesome/terrifying fuc ever.

Like are you allowed to bone a nice NK girl if you had the chance? in NK ofc.

I believe the guy who decided to stay in North Korea instead of go back to the USA had a Korean wife after his first Romanian wife died or something ...

the odds are very low of a non North Korean banging a North Korean lady it seems ? It's possible but not probable

Zombiepop
Mar 30, 2010
It just feels like the police would come knocking and arrest you for reasons.

But maybe that's just western propaganda.

alpaca diseases
May 19, 2009

As cool as it'd be to get your gently caress on with a cute NK minder I think I read that pretty much they'd end up executed and the most likely you'd end up wailing in a courtroom like our boy Otto

The only real question would be how many generations of her family get AA'd alongside her thanks to yo dick

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

This is GBS, where people routinely defend the USSR, Mao, Chavez, the Committee of Public Safety...

Psycho Society
Oct 21, 2010

Strategic Tea posted:

This is GBS, where people routinely defend the USSR, Mao, Chavez, the Committee of Public Safety...

Welcome to GBS, also no one does that

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

The eat the rich thread didn't drop off the front page that long ago

Psycho Society
Oct 21, 2010

Strategic Tea posted:

The eat the rich thread didn't drop off the front page that long ago

That thread was about eating the rich, and also arguing about fast food. I'm not sure what you're talking about

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

Psycho Society posted:

Welcome to GBS, also no one does that

no one from gbs does that

tourists from d&d however

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer
There are so many absolute poo poo groups of Twitter full of echo-chambering political extremism retards that should all be rounded up and locked under the Earth.

various cheeses
Jan 24, 2013

What if we founded our own insane group? The GBS party.

Morzhovyye
Mar 2, 2013

Lowtax posted:

There are so many absolute poo poo groups of Twitter full of echo-chambering political extremism retards that should all be rounded up and locked under the Earth.

political extremism isn't bad you've just grown fat off of the status quo so you see no reason to change it. i'm gonna lock you back up in your pig pen you tedious oaf.

Psycho Society
Oct 21, 2010

The White Dragon posted:

no one from gbs does that

tourists from d&d however

Odobenidae posted:

political extremism isn't bad you've just grown fat off of the status quo so you see no reason to change it. i'm gonna lock you back up in your pig pen you tedious oaf.

Morzhovyye
Mar 2, 2013

debate me

Secular Humanist
Mar 1, 2016

by Smythe
Did you know the US did a bad thing once?

Keep that in mind, any time we try to do a good thing!

Collective punishment of whitey (america when it does bad things) is like secular original sin.

Like why does everyone obsess about the awful things israel does to palestine when israel is the only free society in that part of the world and is literally surrounded by lovely oppressive hellholes? There are muslims living in israel who prefer to live there. I think that matters a lot. We should hear more outrage on the left over the lovely oppressive hellholes these people are fleeing than israel imo.

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Android Blues posted:

like if you place any given comfortable people next to any given unhappy and poverty stricken people, social prejudice always 100% of the time springs up, whether it's american anxiety about mexican immigrants or frothing hatred for the homeless or prejudice against travellers

In fairness 99% of the homeless deserve it

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations

T.S. Smelliot posted:

In fairness 99% of the homeless deserve it

the grocery store closest to my old house had a homeless shelter near it but the shelter was open only during the mornings so all the bums would get their breakfast there and then just roam for the rest of the day

I learned from the one of the cops there that they dont try to arrest them just for loitering because the bums will fake health problems and then they have to call an ambulance and take a report and it takes a long time

in conclusion cops are somehow lazier than shiftless drunk bums

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations
let's mobilize twitter commies to round up our crazy bums and row them to north korea and nk will have a great propaganda coup about how hosed up the west is and we get to not hear from anyone on the boats again

whoflungpoop fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Mar 29, 2017

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

I'm really angry about all the poor people who will be murdered by Trump's death squads ANY MINUTE NOW FASCISM LIVES.

Btw kill anyone who makes too much money, which is a figure I get to decide based on which news articles piss me off that day :ironicat:

your friend a dog
Nov 2, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Lowtax posted:

There are so many absolute poo poo groups of Twitter full of echo-chambering political extremism retards that should all be rounded up and locked under the Earth.

have you looked into dnd lately lowtax

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
someone is still bitter he didn't get a verified account on Twitter

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whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations

your friend a dog posted:

have you looked into dnd lately lowtax

he's not kidding either

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