• Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    The DPRK is not a truly communist state, just a poorly-run dictatorship masked with the guise of communism.

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      its actually a monarchy to technically at least thats why an IR professor said at my school, i was in an IR class. since hes basically a king, and apponints a male heir/heiress.

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      Oh, it certainly is a dictatorship, alright. But I’ll take free healthcare, free housing, and the like, over the capitalist hellhole that is the USA anytime.

      And if I choose, I would like that with freedom of speech too - freedom to be a communist, union organiser, or whatever. Freedom to criticise the government.

      Indeed, I think in this regard, it’s choosing between walking in Antarctica, and doing so in the scorching desert. Both kill you, just in different ways. While you can put up more clothes, you cannot strip yourself off with less than your skin, without dying at all.

      What I favour, is a society in where all are free from need, and free to criticise without hatred. Economic security is basic; and political freedom must come with it.

      That is why if I had to choose between all three (the US, China, and the Zapatists), I would elect the last; and if between the former two, China.

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        Yes master, please let me lick your boot as you step on me and kill my family! /s

        You have no idea what the hell your talking about. You cannot freely criticize there, you will die. You have no economic security there, you will own nothing. You have no political freedom there, you will die if you don’t do as they say.

        A foolish, blind approach to the rise of fascism, more fascism is bad, you fell for it worse than a 4channer did for trump.

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          I think as a citizen in NK, freedom of speech or political freedom would not be a high priority during countrywide food shortages. /s

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            2 days ago

            As a citizen of NK, I always kiss my main piece of Kim for the good of the party! /s

            Doesn’t matter what economic or government style they are, anyplace like that is a hellscape.