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Gotta love how the EU countries closed Russian borders so those who don't want to fight can't leave easily :^)
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@PhenomX6 The borders of all the Asian neighbors (except for North Korea) are wide open though.
Which are perhaps much more welcoming towards Russians anyway.
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@ryo @PhenomX6 Something tells me that one day, North Korea will be the most free country on the planet. Probably without getting any more free than it is right now.
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@TerminalAutism @PhenomX6 Depends on how fed up North Koreans are with authoritarianism.
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@ryo @PhenomX6 Nah, it won't get freer, it will just stay the same while the rest of the world gets so much more tyrannical that it makes North Korea not look so bad.
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@ryo @PhenomX6 At some point we are going to look at North Korea and the grass is definitely going to be greener on the other side, because the grass will be green there and here it will be red with our blood. So, being green at all will look like an upgrade.
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@ryo @TerminalAutism NK has two fatal flaws; no food and the strong armed attempts to suppress SK culture.
I read that this American show called Dallas wound up toppling communism in at least one country (Romania) because while the show in the west was intended to satirize the excess of certain American states, seeing the same imagery when you're a starving prole waiting in bread lines living in a shitty state funded apartment block makes you want to topple your leader so you can have that too. In that case the leader let it air on TV because "haha americans bad" and the starving people saw it differently.
So North Korea has to keep the South Korean TV shows where the common person in those has food and a nice car (in a country with the lowest rate of auto ownership in the world) and you can see why there's more to fear than just South Korean culture replacing or influencing NK culture.
The extreme lockdowns NK did also caused supplies/food to not flow into the country as easily and I've heard they've now lifted the most extreme of the lockdowns, along with importing vaccines from China.
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@TerminalAutism @PhenomX6 @ryo Blood makes the green grass grow.
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@PhenomX6 @TerminalAutism @ryo See also: Boris Yeltsin visits a small grocery store in Texas, 1989.
''Who is allowed to shop here?'' -Boris
''Um... everyone?''
''Did you get every government car in the area here just to make a show of things?''
''No, those cars belong to regular citizens.''
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@PhenomX6 @TerminalAutism @ryo As I understand it, the DPRK is practically a slave state at this point. Dissidents work in mines, resources or factories in abysmal conditions, while the rest of the population is shown videos on how bad the West is (videos that are .. sadly kinda true).
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@djsumdog @PhenomX6 @TerminalAutism This is classic communism actually.
Soyviet Union and the like were identical to that; forced labor in mines whether you like it or not, dissidents are locked up in gulags, and everyone else is being told how tyrannical and evil the capitalist world supposedly is, and how much more free the commies supposedly were (even though with the exception of the Poles, no one was allowed to leave their own republics).
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@brimshae @PhenomX6 @ryo Yeah, it will be very green after we're all dead and buried, if they don't keep spraying aluminium and other toxins everywhere to kill all the plants. Then it will be carcinogenic GMO grass and the color of that will be whatever they pick.
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@TerminalAutism @brimshae @PhenomX6 SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!
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@djsumdog @PhenomX6 @ryo I have heard before that some people that escaped from North Korea said that the indoctrination in the education system is even worse in the west than it is in North Korea. I think it's a matter of time until the rest of the world catches up. Also, what would you take, malnutrition or eating bugs that cause cancer and synthetic meat that causes cancer AND turns you into a tranny? I'll take the malnutrition.
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@TerminalAutism @djsumdog @PhenomX6 Here's a satire article for you:
https://hozon.site/archive/1664169914/babylonbee.com/news/kim-jong-un-attends-ivy-league-university-to-learn-new-brainwashing-techniques.html