Somehow, folks there are not fed, yet simultaneously, there isn't also mass unrest. Libs can't explain that
once my dad was like "north korea, now thats one you wonder how it hasn't just collapsed by now" and I was just like "hmm"
Wonder indeed. But not too hard though, you might arrive at some dangerous conclusions
no no it's definitely brainwashing something something kill ten generations of your family something cult of the god-king kim
I love living in a country where I have a high chance of being killed by a chud because they were denied service at the local Cheesecake Factory for not masking up and so shoot up a mall in protest...
Honestly don't think there's any solidarity to be found from consoomers. When a revolution happens they will likely be the brownshirts that need to be shot as they defend their god capitalism. Some people are just so mentally broken by our treat saturated country that it's kind of hard to think of them as properly socially functions people and instead just hungry rage fueled animals.
Honestly don't consider those people part of consoomer groups, it's more that you have a specific group of individuals within the country in which their consumption habits are so ingrained as their identity they see issues in service as personal attacks against them. Everyone else that reacts normally during those situations are just that, normal people. I'm not advocating a people's war against everyone that shops at Kohl's or Sears haha... yet.
Is the flooding there constant? I was only aware of the bad flood they had in 1993 following the fall of the Soviet Union. Since then I had thought that they altered their food strategy in lieu of new conditions, but getting solid information about the DPRK is difficult.
Racism
Libs believe that the reason the people of not just DPRK, but also every other AES states like China, Vietnam, Cuba, etc didn't revolt against their government is because they're culturally servile to authority. They just lacks the skull shape to recognize ideals like "freedom" or "individualism" which is why they're content with being under the boot.
In other words, they use idealism to fill in the glaring holes of their ideology, as have they always.
It’s because the government there is so violent against protesters. That makes it so people won’t riot over a lack of food. Even though literally modern doctrine says the exact opposite. For anyone who isn’t familiar, the reason the US government does the whole “have soldiers dance the Macarena with local teenagers” schtick is because they tried brutal suppression of rebellions and it always just creates martyrs and emboldens the resistance.
There’s no finagling your way out of food rebellions once your people have gone a couple days without food. We get real desperate real quick when we realize the alternative is starvation. The idea that this is the norm in North Korea is laughable
It's an outgrowth of Americans' complete lack of historical knowledge. NK obviously had really bad famines after we dropped more bombs on them during the Korean War than were dropped during the entirety of World War 2, and then they had another pretty bad famine in the 90s after their main food source the Soviet Union collapsed. These events have morphed into the pop history belief that NK has been having a nonstop famine for its entire existence.
There are anecdotal accounts I've read about young people who were kids during the famine being more pessimistic than their parents. It seems to me (again, based totally on anecdotes, and through the interpretation of a cracker that lives thousands of miles away) that perhaps the adults living through the famine were deeply loyal to the state during the famine, said loyalty may have appeared to be without warrant to their children who experienced hunger and hardship. I haven't heard of any further unrest beyond that, myself.
Americans are also so desperate to believe that, that when they go to Pyongyang and have no problems getting food, they actually believe they only got what little food they have out to the Americans so that they can pretend they're not starving.
How do they even know what koreans eat? How do they know what Kim eats? Why do they feel the need to make shit up and present it as fact?
Love the 'shark fin soup' for added racism :kombucha-disgust:
funny enough "kim" pronounced with a gh mixed with the K, is dried seaweed wrap. alternative name is "nori" in japanese.
I think the "juche burgers" is a reference to an actual restaurant chain in North Korea. North Korea's airline also serves a famously bad "burger" made with chicken on its planes.
The other guy's just being racist.
So FYI that restaurant is apparently the byproduct of some weird trade deal DPRK has with Singapore. It serves "American Cuisine" and is run by some sketchy Singaporean business dude. But the food they serve doesn't look terrible.
How do they even know what koreans eat? How do they know what Kim eats?
mainstream media used to run stories about how :kim-jong-il: abducted a Japanese chef who had to make him sushi while being held hostage in DPRK for several decades and this r*dditor just assumes that :kim-peace: loves sushi just as much as his dad. The sharkfin soup is most likely just the usual anti-asian racism a reddit brain makes up on the fly, the reports about Kim Yong-Ils sushi hostage only described how fond he was of sea urchin sushi when they got into naming specific dishes that the chef had to prepare.
I wonder, with so many 'hostages' that the Kim family has kidnapped and forced to make art and food and hang out, how many of those are actually just doing kayfabe to not be labeled as traitors and defectors? Maybe some of them are just sympathetic to Cool Korea and didn't want their family to get harassed at home.
Uhh yeah honey, I'll be home late from work, the North Korean Dynasty has abducted me and they say I have to play Gears of War all the way through with Kim Jong Un or I'll get fed to the helicopter dogs. Yeah. They are like, dogs with propellers that can go mach 5. Yeah, it wouldn't be pretty. Ok I'll see you soon, love you bye, YO KIM PASS THE CONTROLLER
When you live in a country whose first language is treats, treats are going to be the only way you understand the world.
Suddenly millions of slobbering Americans line up for the chance at neverending commie burgers
I've been saying to my friends for awhile now that Americans won't rise up until we can't get hamburgers 🤷
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised, if America ever does go commie, our Lenin will be some guy who is a total communist, but will also campaign on getting football back on the TV and making sure we got enough meat production so everyone can get back grillin'!!!
this is somewhat unironically the way. the US has succeeded in poisoning the ideological well so deeply that socialism will only take hold when explained in the language of American Civil Religion, with treats as incentives on top.
BPP’s free school breakfasts accompanied by Juche free school lunches (always burgers)
Kim jong un inherited stalins giant spoon and drinks a comical amount of shark fin soup with it
If communism is when no burger, then that makes sense why it terrifies so many Americans
Ever since GZD got quarantined, it seems ECS has to scrape the bottom of the barrel, huh?
Remove a keystone species from an ecosystem and the whole thing falls apart
smashes sanctions button with bloody skeletal hand that has been eroded away
"THEY CANT EVEN FEED THEIR PEOPLE" :agony-shivering:
free unlimited burgers? my funeral would definitely be a closed casket type of deal.
