the “what are we north korea” posts when ppl see americans doing things americanly are pretty gross to me. people will defend this joke to the death they’ll be like it’s instructive! buddy no it isn’t. the average person knows nothing about the dprk and you are not clarifying. comparisons are moot.
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You were getting a little too rose colored glasses on the presence of those clinics in Shanghai when the overwhelming majority of the country is pretty regressive on topics like this and these are at best an extreme outlier.
(as you know, but I felt compelled to make explicit for folks as block-headed as I can be)
yeah I'm not an uncritical dprk apologist but it's just...reeking of Noah Smith fetishism (i.e., the only good Asians are the ones the US invaded)
This reminds me that I need to make time to listen to the latest season of Blowback,...
"Which is what, exactly?"
"A dictatorship."
"How do you know that?"
"Well, it's obvious."
"Name two other DPRK politicians."
"Oh look at the tankie."