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look I'm not gonna pretend I know anything about electronics, but sometimes a plug is so big it blocks another socket, and I'm always like "who the fuck do you think you are"

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Yo where are you even getting your DPRK info???

I'm going to treat this as an earnest question and explain that there's generally two parts to understanding the DPRK: (1) The history regarding Japanese colonialism and the Korean war; (2) Korea's position in the modern geopolitical context.

(1) Japanese colonialism and the Korean War was brutal on the Korean people. Understanding it in the three phases of Japanese colonialism, post-WWII independence, and the Korean War allows us to track how power was transferred from Japan to the Korean people in the northern part of the peninsula and from Japan to the US in the southern part of the peninsula.

Some Materials: Brokers of Empire Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea by Jun Uchida; Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution 1945-1950 by Suzy Kim; The Hidden History of the Korean War by I.F. Stone; Blowback Season 3 (Podcast).

(2) Understanding the historical context of modern day Korea following the Korean War helps us to understand why the DPRK operates as it does, and why the US and its allies are still determined to escalate tensions using the ongoing Korean War. We understand why the DPRK still needs a strong military and nuclear deterrence, the conditions that it developed under from the 1950s to present day, and how the US uses economic sanctions and blockade as a form of warfare to destabilize the DPRK.

Some Materials: Modern Korea by Kim Byong Sik; Sanctions of Empire by Nodutdol; Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang (Documentary on YT).

Personally, it's also useful to understand why certain narratives in the West are pushed when it comes to places like the DPRK. These narratives that are usually fabricated serve as both a way of manufacturing consent for militaristic maneuvers like positioning US troops in the ROK and to push a larger anti-communist agenda (e.g. communism is the same as fascism) based on narratives that are, again, largely fabricated to manufacture consent. History is a humbling teacher and offers lessons and insights that we should value. I say this with earnest that people take up this study with curiosity and a compassion for the Korean struggle.

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…maybe…

….i’m not an atheist..?

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Western chauvinism on full display, incapable of understanding how an oppressed people form a national identity, incapable of distinguishing between nationalism that guides collective liberation and nationalism wielded by the bourgeoisie to divide the working class.

A sickness of ego, of anti-intellectualism.

The thing is that if Kim Jong Un really was a total dictator who cared only about power and cruelty, it would be so much easier for him to ally with the US and be just like the Gulf monarchs or Pol Pot or one of the other million of criminals on Washington’s payroll. Recent wars have demonstrated very blatantly that US puppet leader is a great job for someone whose primary passions are killing babies and threatening their neighbors with nukes. For heads of state looking to sell out their people, Washington is the top buyer.

Literally what is there to be gained from the DPRK’s “isolationist” policies other than the security of its people?!

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The arrogance to diagnose a liberated people as reactionary... I hope that you unlearn such cruel behavior, and learn instead their proud history.

The thing is that if Kim Jong Un really was a total dictator who cared only about power and cruelty, it would be so much easier for him to ally with the US and be just like the Gulf monarchs or Pol Pot or one of the other million of criminals on Washington’s payroll. Recent wars have demonstrated very blatantly that US puppet leader is a great job for someone whose primary passions are killing babies and threatening their neighbors with nukes. For heads of state looking to sell out their people, Washington is the top buyer.

Literally what is there to be gained from the DPRK’s “isolationist” policies other than the security of its people?!

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I can't even imagine holding so much hate in one's heart against the DPRK, an explicitly socialist country that rebuilt itself from the ashes of the Korean War, and who has done nothing but persist and even thrive under constant US aggression. We have so much to learn from them in the way they defend their revolution and improve their living conditions and productive capacities, but they can only be pitiful victims who suffer under a military monarchy, charity cases for those who have never given them solidarity.

The thing is that if Kim Jong Un really was a total dictator who cared only about power and cruelty, it would be so much easier for him to ally with the US and be just like the Gulf monarchs or Pol Pot or one of the other million of criminals on Washington’s payroll. Recent wars have demonstrated very blatantly that US puppet leader is a great job for someone whose primary passions are killing babies and threatening their neighbors with nukes. For heads of state looking to sell out their people, Washington is the top buyer.

Literally what is there to be gained from the DPRK’s “isolationist” policies other than the security of its people?!

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this framing of 3rd party voters and non-voters as moralists is odd since they were the bloc of voters that had clear policy/material demands of the current administration (re: palestine, cost of living, refugee crisis, etc.), and were voting/not voting according to said demands.

stating that those demands are moral alignments rather than expressions of political will is incorrect, and if the democratic party was intent on securing those votes, they would have acted on the political will of the masses. they instead chose to stay the course and, in the process, lose the trust of those voters in their ability to govern and address their concerns.

lambasting those folks as being moralists because Kamala was the "good" choice is, by definition, moralizing. it's removing her campaign from the policies it advocates for, and gives a pass to a harsh border policy, dedicated militarization, pro-fracking, etc. because she's the "good" choice and not the "bad" choice.

Odd, how the accusations are confessions.

The "if you voted for Trump unfollow me" posts are returning, but given then general makeup of your average tumblr user I think there's a different message I'd like to give.

If you didn't vote because "both parties are the same" or "it won't make a difference" or because Kamala wasn't the pure and perfect leader that you wanted or you "didn't want blood on your hands", honestly whether or not you follow me doesn't make a damned bit of difference. But I want you to look. Take a good look at the despair around you right now. And every godforsaken thing that follows I want you to fucking look. Look and know that you could have helped prevent it. We still haven't recovered from his last four years, the world hasn't fucking recovered, and now we're staring down the barrel of god knows how many more years and a river of fucking blood to come along with it.

But your pride and your principles were more important to you than the actual real fucking world we live in.

I hope, if nothing else, that you can take this in. I hope you learn. I hope you grow. I hope you find it in you to realize that in this country they soak our hands in blood the second we take our first breath and the only thing that matters then is what you fucking do with them. What you fight for. Who you fight for. Who you defend.

I hope you wake up. And you step up. And you fucking fight.

But until then. Don't you fucking dare look away.

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voted for a 3rd party presidential candidate whose policies and positions i agree with and that's about all the thought that I need to put into that choice.

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Just in case anyone needs a reason to not feed wildlife- this story out of Washington is a pretty good reminder. This lady has been feeding raccoons for years and now she’s just had to call authorities for help because hundreds of them are parked out on her property and are so aggressive trying to get food that she can’t get into her house.

Neighbors have been reporting excessive raccoon mortality on the adjacent road and several attacks on pets, but still everyone on this video was just talking about how cute it is. Why can’t people see how unfair it is to disrupt an animal’s life like this? What do they think will happen to these raccoons? They should be scampering through a forest or marsh eating crayfish and berries and bugs, not hotdogs and cat food. This is a nightmare situation and it’s entirely one person’s fault.

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mourning again

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love is stored in the plushie...?

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how could anyone hate a bird. what is your fucking problem

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do you ever become obsessed with a character and you just go "of fucking course its that one" at yourself because you are so incredibly predictable

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online just enough to mourn people i've never met, to witness their bravery and death

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reblog and put in the tags what you think will fix you

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having watched a few episodes of black butler and reading all of prince of tennis, I can confidently say that these works of fujoshi canon are some of the most racist pieces of popular fiction I have ever encountered

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nothing more sobering than realizing you'd been assuming a cover of a song was the original...like oh phew if the wrong person found out about that i couldve been killed