• ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    When they haven’t had a Democratic Primary apply Democracy since at least as far back as 2008?

    The D in DPRK is also “Democratic”. But when they have nothing but “Kims” leading ever, and for life? I have to question if that word is applied in the same way we understand it.

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            8 days ago

            If you wanna actually talk that out? Maybe teach me something you don’t expect me to know?

            I’m game. However, you might find I chose my words carefully when dealing with a US Liberal in a discussion on US politics. What, with shared Material Conditions.

            If all you wanna do is hate on a comment you dislike? You’re welcome to choose which corner of the US-imposed, globally-projected dumpster-fire you die in.

            Either way? Death to the Empire and rehab for those trapped within.

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              7 days ago

              I’m game. However, you might find I chose my words carefully when dealing with a US Liberal in a discussion on US politics. What, with shared Material Conditions.

              What makes you think you’re dealing with a US liberal in a discussion on US politics here, of all places?

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        8 days ago

        Inside one party where, I don’t see any outside body validating results.

        Does anyone need to? Nah. Does the DPRK need anyone to validate their legitimacy? Nah, but it would be one hell of a flex on US “Democracy.”

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          8 days ago

          Stop trying to justify the genocide in korea to yourself. Its your fault. You genocided the koreans and are trying to cover it up. You are apparently butthurt that korea is still sovereign, even though you thought you genocided them all. Your genocide failed, the koreans are still free and their nukes will protect them from you, neoliberal ghoul.

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      7 days ago

      The DPRK is actually democratic though, did you mean to compare them to the comprador bourgeois dictatorship of “south Korea”?

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        6 days ago

        Nah, I didn’t understand quite who I was talking to, and chose a frame a Liberal would take the way you’re taking it.

        But when you’re talking about Democracy within a single party? An American isn’t going to understand the party as a structure to unify all, they’re going to take it as the domination of one Camp over another. And that’s something I need Communists to take from that same statement.

        An American is not going to see anything they recognize as Democracy in the DPRK. Especially when three leaders in a row are named Kim, we’re going to see a Monarchy.

        Is that reality? I don’t have the access to know. But I have read enough Kim Il Sung to realize how much of their theory really isn’t that different from anything else leftist, just presented in a way that fit the moment for the Korean people.

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          6 days ago

          So you knew what you said was incorrect but said it anyway. You shouldn’t do that, it’s just going to cause confusion.