• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I’m not out here defending the human rights violations of NORTH FUCKING KOREA.

    If your defense for tankie talking points is “North Korea ain’t that bad TBH” then you fucking lost, and you fucking lost a long time ago.

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      10 days ago

      If your evidence for “DPRK bad” is literally an invention of your own mind, then maybe you should reconsider your own position.

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        10 days ago

        Feel free to post evidence to the contrary.

        One essay by a random nobody does not count as evidence.

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          10 days ago

          I never posted any essays, I posted a scholarly textbook from a professor in China. Calling academics “random nobodies” because they live in China, and textbooks “essays,” is about what I’d expect from someone that doesn’t even bother to fact-check before spreading racist lies about the DPRK. Further, though, what evidence do you want, specifically? For what claim? If you give a specific claim, I can counter with specific evidence. The most I’ve said is that you lied about executions using tabloid media as evidence, and that the DPRK isn’t a hellhole.

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            10 days ago

            I never posted any essays, I posted a scholarly textbook from a professor in China.

            You’re telling me that you did not suggest that I read “Tankies” by Nia Frome?

            highly recommend reading “Tankies” by Nia Frome.

            Get fuckign real.

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              10 days ago

              Ah, that? That’s not a source, it’s just someone talking about how we define tankies and what the group that gets called tankies supports. I was referring to Roland Boer’s work as the textbook, Nia Frome is a writer for Red Sails, not an academic. Sorry for the confusion. In any case, “Tankies” isn’t evidence of anything, it’s a persuasive argument. Socialism in Power is evidence on the DPRK’s democratic institutions.

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                10 days ago

                I never posted any essays, I posted a scholarly textbook from a professor in China.

                highly recommend reading “Tankies” by Nia Frome.

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                  10 days ago

                  Ah, that? That’s not a source, it’s just someone talking about how we define tankies and what the group that gets called tankies supports. I was referring to Roland Boer’s work as the textbook, Nia Frome is a writer for Red Sails, not an academic. Sorry for the confusion. In any case, “Tankies” isn’t evidence of anything, it’s a persuasive argument. Socialism in Power is evidence on the DPRK’s democratic institutions.

                  We were talking about the DPRK, we had moved well-past the topic of tankies. Cut the bullshit and address the actual argument, I already apologized for misspeaking.

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                    10 days ago

                    Yeah, it’s gonna take me a minute to read Roland Boer’s book. Since you’ve obviously read it, does it contain any sourced accounts on human rights or election freedoms in North Korea? I’m gonna guess the answer is ‘no’, but I’m open to being wrong.