a whole part of twitter thinks north korea is good

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Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

Moridin920 posted:

OP did you know stalin did nothing wrong

Flashback to 2006 DnD with McCaine. He was so stoked about Chavez and Venezuela.

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Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

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Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

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Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

down n out posted:

US is just mad North Korea is copying their playbook of giving all the money and supplies to the political/military elite and everyone else gets to eat dog poo poo and pine cones.

The dogs are long gone. As well as the cats, and the gerbils, and the budgies...

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Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

Lote posted:

The people that love North Korea are the small sliver of overlap of Weeaboo, rebelliousness, and dumb.

I wish we could make this young Australian's dream come true.

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Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

Democrazy posted:

There are leftists who think that Hohxa is cool. They call themselves Hoxhaists.

It's a type of conspiracy theory. Just as the 9/11 truthers think that you're a sheeple if you believe that some Saudis hijacked planes and knocked down the WTC, these types think that anything bad about Stalin, Mao etc. is just imperialist propaganda only believed by sheeple. Though admiring Hoxha is just weird, even for that lot.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2017 03:56

Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

Wikkheiser posted:

I like them because I like the way Hohxa is pronounced. Like "Ho-jah."

Hojah hojah hojah.

I had a job once where they brought in an outsourced HR, and interviewed everyone. I was interviewed by a nice young lady, and after it was done, I asked her "I was wondering about your accent - you sound as though you're from Eastern Europe, but I'm not sure beyond that." She explained she was from Albania, and I realized that she was about my age, so she had grown up during Hoxha's time in power. I had seen a report about Albania on Sixty Minutes many years before, and I said "Wow, that means that you grew up in one of the most repressive countries behind the Iron Curtain. Wasn't the dictator named Enver Hoxha?" Her mouth dropped open "You even said his name right!" She was happy to talk about growing up in Albania, and what it was like (not as bad as you might think, enough food, but not great food, clothes, but not very nice, some things you just didn't talk about), and how happy she was to leave and come to the west.

Repo Man fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Mar 26, 2017

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Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

maybe you should come up with a solution then that doesn't involve autistically waving red flags around and then accidentally starving millions hth

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The Onion was making fun of LF before LF even existed.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2017 04:11

Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

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.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2017 05:16

Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

Wikkheiser posted:

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

It'll be loving awesome

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# ¿ Mar 26, 2017 06:06

Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

Benny Harvey posted:

How was Hoxha worse than Stalin?

I don't know that anyone is saying that he was worse than Stalin. But he remained a Stalinist until his death in 1985, so when the USSR and the rest of the satellite states were liberalizing, Albania remained a little pocket of severe repression. A bit similar to the difference between modern day China and NK.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2017 16:49

Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

Blazing Ownager posted:

You saw the last round of executions were carried out by anti-aircraft gun right?

To be honest I think I rather be killed by field artillery or an anti-air gun than "humane" lethal injection, can't imagine you suffer long

The scene in Stalingrad where the guy is cut in half by a direct hit from a T-34 (3:10): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVvoo1qFPDo

# ¿ Mar 26, 2017 17:15

Repo Man: Nov 19, 2005

Psycho Society posted:

You couldn't be more wrong. A patchwork system of resource-starved counties or states trying to implement a safety net for basic needs is a terrible loving idea. Jesus christ

I agree. Take the issue of homelessness - if one city in a state institutes a very generous set of policies (relative to the other cities in the same state), offering low income housing, drug rehab, jobs programs, word will get out and they will be overwhelmed as people travel there to take advantage. The same is true of states that have generous welfare benefits versus ones that have, err, more "objectivist" standards. The policies are better instituted on a state or federal level to level the playing field and ensure consistency.

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