Turns out South Korea was a brutal military dictatorship under the backing of the US way longer than you'd think
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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USA and brutal dictatorships, name a more iconic duo!
Russia and brutal dictatorships? They're both up there
Lets just say “superpowers and brutal dictatorships”.
Whoevers dominating in a period in history generally didn’t get there by advocating for peace and self determination.
North Korea and brutal dictatorship
How many regimes did NK install themselves?
Democracy has been a relatively recent form of government in the grand scheme of things.
The way the US has been acting, they never seemed to think that democracy is a good form of government, either.
The Ancient Greeks would like several words.
All, it was more than a general strike. Also, fyi, OP is a bot
How do you know? What are the lemmy telltale signs?
Highly disproportionate post to comment ratio is usually a good telltale sign
Very high number of posts, very few comments, for this user.
An average user with a genuine question or sharing will engage with other users. Although with LLMs, there are bots that reply too, in the writing you'll see AI failings, not human failings.
I don't think cm0002 is a bot. From what I remember, cm0002 makes a lot of posts to grow various communities, some of which are crossposts in between communities with similar topics. Although this account looks different from the one I remember, so maybe this one is an alt.
I personally don't find that behaviour to be harmful unless it's fully automated or a fire hose of low quality junk. If a human is picking out the content to post, then it gives people something to discuss and vote on.
I'm likely biased myself since I also schedule out posts with another account @otters_raft@lemmy.ca. I do that since this account is an admin account, and so I don't want to risk any issues if the scheduling tool goes haywire. I do check it about once a day and respond to comments when appropriate, but overall the post to comment ratio on that account is pretty lopsided.
We DO get harmful bots too, and they get downvoted/reported/banned very quickly. Those are pretty obvious since they post spam and ads in unrelated communities.
I feel in this case, "TIL" should be personal (it's not a cross-post too). But in general yeah, bots for things like news sounds like a good idea.
OP is a bot
And yet I've had DM convos with them that were remarkably like talking with a human. Am I a bot?
Maybe.. Are you able to tick the box?
I wish we had more bots posting useful links to articles.
Humans just seem to post screenshots of headlines ;/
hol up, Jeju island is a real place and a real massacre took place there? Doesn't that make it kinda fucked up that the manga Solo Leveling used it as a location and set a different, wholly unrelated massacre there? I just naively assumed they made up an island. There wasn't even a mention of the labor struggle in either the manga or the anime.
Seems more lile an explicit political statement, but yeah.
I've been trying to go through and see if there are any other allusions that would make it a political statement, but can't really find anything. Maybe that ants were chosen as the enemies who inhabited the island? but the "moral" of that arc was "hell yeah kill everything, even the kids" so I really hope that wasn't meant as an allusion. It's not like the manga makes any political statements in general, it's your typical generic shonen "helping people is good" and "get strong" kinda themes. I guess there's a bit talking about people trying to forget Jeju Island, but it's played entirely in-universe. Seems too strange to be coincidence though.
Jeju Island is basically the Kenny of South Korean novels and webcomics. Place gets cooked pretty often.
The anti-socialist views of the southern government and worry about losing control to the north played more into it than the strike.
This is the kind of shit that either gives you a raging authoritarian boner or like in my case, radicalises you toward anarchism, because fuck the state, fuck absolute power.
Coming to NYC soon