• TheOctonaut@piefed.zip
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    1 day ago

    “This is just like what the US did to my favourite monarchy 75 years ago” - a totally normal leftist response to a war crime happening today

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      17 hours ago

      This is just like what the US did to my favourite monarchy 75 years ago

      Are you referring to North Korea? The DPRK has a cult of personality thing going on, for sure. But that hadn’t developed yet, by the time of the Korean war. Rather the DPRK was a really quite vibrant multi-party Socialist democracy.

      The overwhelming dominance of the WPK, and the ostensible sidelining of other parties and organizations in the Supreme People’s Assembly only starts to occur after the war. With the genocidal bombing of the Korean peninsula by the United States, and subsequent economic and diplomatic isolation, being the primary engine which drove political centralization.

      Compare the results of 1948 SPA election results with those of 1957.

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        15 hours ago

        Cool. Not sure what it has to do with North Korea being their favourite monarchy today though?

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      Fuck off lib. You’ll be saying this exact same thing in a few years about Iran and pretending that the United States of Pissreal was right in doing what it’s doing today.

      Your obnoxious settler states won’t last long. Count the days

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          I doubt that. See, if you actually lived in ireland and wanted to complain about a monarchy, why make up one on the other side of the world, when an actual monarchy is occupying part of your country?

          Maybe you actually live in a certain fake country whose name starts with “I”? That is at war with a certain real country whose name also starts with “I”?