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      I believe them more than the obvious bullshit propaganda coming from the country that literally genocided them, lmao.

      You believe shit like every man in the country has to get the same haircut?

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        It would be a lot easier to combat other country’s propaganda if citizens were able to travel to or at least communicate with other countries. Why won’t the government allow them to do that? There isn’t any non-tyrannical reason to censor all media in and out of the country.

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        coming from the country that literally genocided them, lmao.

        Why are you assuming that the original commentator is American?

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            So when the South Korean government speaks poorly of North Korea, that’s American propaganda?

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                So any country that is not an ally with North Korea is a “vassal state”?

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                  No, any country “allied” with the US has to do what the American military industrial complex wants, or they face trade embargoes, sanctions, shitty deals, etc.

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            Slate’s Joshua Keating pointed out that, while the latest haircut story is almost certainly a hoax, it isn’t without precedent. Back in 2005, North Korea launched a media campaign which argued that long hair “consumes a great deal of nutrition” and should thus be kept short.

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            You believe shit like every man in the country has to get the same haircut?

            No, but it seems that they have to have short hair. This seems to be the case with many Communist countries past and present.

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              There haven’t been any communist countries in the past and there certainly aren’t any in the present, lol.

              Regardless, men aren’t forced to get the same haircut as Kim Jong un, despite dozens of western sources claiming it over the years. This is an example of the bullshit I was talking about.

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                There haven’t been any communist countries in the past and there certainly aren’t any in the present, lol.

                So the Kim Gang weren’t/aren’t true Scotsmen?

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                Regardless, men aren’t forced to get the same haircut as Kim Jong un, despite dozens of western sources claiming it over the years. This is an example of the bullshit I was talking about.

                It was an exaggeration, like saying that the US is fascist, that Trump is a moron, or that Hasan Piker, or BadEmpanada, is totally absolutely undeniably right.

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                  Tell me what the definition of communism is and then tell me which country has ever fit that description.

                  You think calling the US fascist is an exaggeration, lmfao?

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                    IIUC, even the Communists say that communism doesn’t exist, and that they were in a socialist phase.

                    IIRC I’ve read the term “Actual Socialist Countries”.

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                    You think calling the US fascist is an exaggeration, lmfao?

                    Fascists have an ideology. Trump pretty well has none, and he’ll be gone in 27 months if not sooner.

                    You are free to protest against Trump in the US; call ICE goons names—scream at them even; IIUC no one has been conscripted in over 50 years; there are still Pride Parades—even now, the US is less homophobic than today’s Russia or yesterday’s USSR; Trump’s party will probably lose a House, maybe 2; and unlike Stalin, IIUC, the US made no treaty with the USSR to carve up a neighbouring country.

                    I’d say the US is part democracy, part plutocracy, and part kakistocracy, but fascist? not really.