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Tankies take a moment to engage in some North Korea propaganda. 'North Korea is a democracy'
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also downvoted for preferring democracy lol
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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also look at these weird ass rules. This is for the "korea" community
Insecure much?
I like how this ignores that not only did the DPRK start the war, but the vast majority of the UN lined up behind South Korea, after the USSR stormed out of the security council meeting - they still had quorum, but the Soviets apparently assumed they didn’t, or would adjourn, or something. They didn’t. As a direct result, United Nations Command was established to specifically support South Korea in 1950.
I love how this kinds of communities describe themselfes as welcome to discussion and the write all the "facts" as a rule and everybody who says anything els gets banned.
Yeah, I don't really understand why tankies pretend to be liberals so much. So many of their communities are all like 'discussion welcome!'
But of course it isn't actually welcome. I've noticed that it's special to tankies, and that other extremists openly embrace their ignorance.
Digressive Victimhood.
They are communists not liberals
You're getting a lot of downvotes but no explanation.
Communism is a classless stateless society. The fact that all these groups are massive states with untouchable political classes rebuts any assertion of communism. Second is the difference between nouns and adjectives. The Communist Party is a noun. Such parties are never able to be described as communist however. In fact Vanguard parties are an antithesis to communism. And would have to be overthrown before achieving communism.
If you take leninism / maoism seriously. They are supposed to be frameworks with which to jumpstart communism. Sort of like all that " one weird trick to perfect health that doctors hate" spam you see all over the internet. Bullshit.
They go around calling themselves communists and I believe them
We aren't talking about the most rational people here
They've given you no reason to believe them. They've lied to you about everything. I too am a communist. Anarco communist. Everything I stand for is opposed to them. One of us must be wrong.
But here's something to think about before you decide who's correct. They want you and others to treat them as if they were communist do you really want to give them what they want? That seems counterintuitive to accept their claims on face value when they're so dishonest about everything else.
While for my part all I've done is try to engage you in good faith and treat if you like an adult.
Maoists maybe.
Marx wouldn't recognize any of them.
I don't think it matters much
These are people who call NK a free country so we aren't talking about the most rational beliefs
They aren't communists either. But they long to be a liberal in red paint.
I've never seen a tankie want to be a liberal. They really like the world libtard.
lol they’re not communists.
Why can't the be?
If someone says they they are a communist I believe them. (Sorry, I mean Marxist)
I, for one, am sick of the media I listen to constantly telling me it would be fine to completely destroy North Korea in an invasion.
I am seriously very curious about who these people are that are posting and participating in this place. Is it North Korean trolls? Normal trolls who are taking the piss? Western communists who know it's bullshit but see it as their duty to say it anyway? Western communists who really believe it? Russians who just want to talk up their friends and poop on the US and don't really care if anyone believes it or not? People with mental illness? People who just want a tribe to be part of? Is it just the lemmygrad admins just making on-brand activity on their server? Who the hell is participating in this? Why?
Also, I took a look. Their video of people "enjoying" is very weird. It reminds me of the USSR Billy Joel concert with him yelling at his crew to take the cameras off people because they were only allowed to have fun off camera.
When the fuck did we downplay Palestine?
Also, that's MAGA / toddler logic.
Yeah, pretty much summed it up. As for the why? it's because they are lonely and lazy.
I can believe the video is authentic. But it's important to note that these are the 0.1 percent of North Koreans, the ultra rich. Most are incredibly impoverished. The video's weird because none of them want to get sand on themselves, they don't want to look like the dirty peasants, hence their awkward movements. Appearance is very important in North Korea.
Oh, it definitely looked genuine to me (although obviously I have no idea). It just didn't look like anyone was having any fun.
And then people ask why the lemmy devs receive so little funding. I want to support lemmy but I just can't morally support people pushing this agenda.