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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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North Koreans seem cool

I dunno about the government or the fatbaby dictator though

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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I'm just stunned that boy paid his way to North Korea and then stole a sign from a pound-me-in-the-rear end totalitarian regime instead of ponying up a few extra bucks for some souvenirs. I mean they've probably got souvenir shops and I can't imagine they're that expensive what the gently caress

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Literal Juche Furry

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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I found that gif from the website of the Rural People's Party, a group of ex-white supremacists who moved into a backwoods South Carolina trailer to create a pro-DPRK commune. The pic of the girl a few posts up -- she was mixed up with them.

http://ruralpeople.atspace.org/

And one of the guys visited North Korea as a representative, but the DPRK pretty quickly severed ties because he was, as you can clearly see, a goddamned crazy person.



They also tried to merge Juche ideology with Jim Jones Thought (of the People's Temple). Also guns and death threats directed at some other fellow travelers got involved before the group fractured.

Read all about it here, but warning the article is long and needed an editor: http://www.nate-thayer.com/white-power-and-apocalyptic-cults-pro-dprk-homegrown-u-s-terrorist-groups-are-pyongyang-chosen-favorites/

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 12:24 on Mar 25, 2017

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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blowfish posted:

glory to the dprk :redflag:
yes i like this post

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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unironically now, you can make a case for U.S. military having a role in the world, but that also has to be coupled with an understanding of its limits.

war isn't just like "put X amount of dollars into the military/war effort = get desired result" as there's asymmetry involved.

there's another problem in that the U.S. military is so big, its very presence distorts and mutates the economic and political conditions of countries it occupies in unpredictable ways. an army, like a country, is just another way of organizing people. the army doesn't just fight when it occupies, it hands out contracts, builds air bases, roads, concrete walls, depots, whore houses, etc. etc. etc. so the plan is to do X but your attempt to implement X is actually causing the environment to bend toward Y. doing more of X is not going to work.

that's "friction," which clausewitz wrote about.

i dunno what this has to do with north korea but i think if there was a war, it would actually veer off in a weird, unexpected direction.

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Oct 4, 2012


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Democrazy posted:

There are leftists who think that Hohxa is cool. They call themselves Hoxhaists.
I like them because I like the way Hohxa is pronounced. Like "Ho-jah."

Hojah hojah hojah.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Repo Man posted:

Try whatever form of social organization you want - nothing will work. Maybe someday we can genetically modify our species, and live like a global colony of carpenter ants.
No, the alternative is universal basic jihad, all the time.

Universal total jihad.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Like give everyone a basic minimum income but also everyone will always be jihading everywhere at all times.

It'll be loving awesome

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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I'm posting in two different NK threads but have this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkgLUw7CvK8

Things look better nowadays, and I'd say Pyongyang looks nicer than Havana if lime-green concrete block buildings are your thing.

Creepier than Havana though.

Psycho Society posted:

Is it just me though or are north korean girls like really fuckin' cute
It's the uniforms isn't it

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Holy gently caress these NK tour companies have hours of sightseeing footage set to this eerie pachinko music on YouTube

And it's mostly the company filming the tourists wandering around and looking at things. That's not creepy at all. Better hope these visitors practiced their self-criticism sessions at the end of the previous tour-day and are on their best behavior!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70sx3zs6Res

This keeps getting better and better. The most enthusiastic music as the camera zooms into the faces of these utterly gobsmacked hipsters. Go to 14:40

I wanna go to North Korea

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Mar 26, 2017

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Watch his belly fat jiggle here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzPvhrh7gLM&t=1424s

You can watch him speak earlier. Poor guy is going to keel over.

(He seems like he stumbles over his words too)

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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pretty sure the U.S. would beat north korea in a battle but i wouldn't want to go one-on-one with a north korean they look wiry and tough, and capable of kicking my butt

Piss de Bundy posted:

Stay strong juice man

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Mar 28, 2017

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Watching a bunch of Workers Party apparatchiks getting hammered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tZYdv9KM5c&t=1s

It's pretty good thanks Comrade Kim Jong-un.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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There should be pro-North Korea threads in every subforum.

Kim il-Sung's Shameful Secret

The DPRK IV

The Juche Barn

Rapidly Going Hungry

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Kim Jong-un is obese, in his mid-30s and has bad personal habits so he's really goons' natural leader if you think about it.

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a new study bible! posted:

i run one of those fake shops in the DPRK, AMA
How much do you want for that big painting of Comrade Kim Jong-un riding a white horse as the sunbeams break over Mt. Paektu

No, not that one.

That one's too big

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Lunixnerd posted:

There's thousands of middle-class white college students from well-off families that want to overthrow the government and install communism, goes to show OP, there's crazies everywhere. Oh but wait, this time, they totally promise to do communism right and that there wont be a genocide of wrong-thinkers because they can totally pull it off properly because they heard about Karl Marx and they wear a Che Guevara shirt.
Marxism-Leninism is not a dogma, it is a guide to action and a creative theory. So, Marxism-Leninism can display its indestructible vitality only when it is applied creatively to suit the specific conditions of each country. The same applies to the experience of the fraternal parties. It will prove valuable to us only when we make a study of it, grasp its essence and properly apply it to our realities. Instead, if we just gulp it down and spoil our work, it will not only harm our work but also lead to discrediting the valuable experience of the fraternal parties.

-- Kim Il Sung

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Secular Humanist posted:

Did you know that the number of people killed by communism in history is way over inflated? It's only like several million people, so, my point being, feel the bern.
It may not be proper to say your Juche is lacking, but, in fact, it has not yet been firmly established.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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I identify as a Mosin-Nagant.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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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.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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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

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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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!

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Secular Humanist posted:

Yeah I agree, israel did and continues to do lovely things, but their crimes pale in comparison to what many islamic theocracies do to their own people. If the western left is a supporter of human rights, shouldn't israel be like #50 instead of #1 on so many people's list of main offenders? It's a question of magnitude both in terms of the problems and the response to them.

In other words I think problems should be dealt with in order by how badly the victims are suffering and how numerous those victims are, rather than weighing irrelevant things like the hypocrisy or consistency inherent in the oppressor's actions.
the hypocrisy charge also has its limits because zionism was created in response to western oppression. since a lot of anti-zionist critics focus on israel as a western-backed agent of imperialist powers, there's a bit of a conundrum. reductionist thinking gets people in trouble.

Secular Humanist posted:

when israel is the only free society in that part of the world
well nah. lebanon is a multi-party democracy. a very fragile one that can go up in smoke in a flash, but it might be "freer" in some senses than many western countries. it's actually a pretty libertarian place. the government is so weak it's actually dysfunctional. just stay out of southern lebanon though.

just a quibble though

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