south Korea is one of the few countries on earth that seems like they’d be worse to live in, from a “hope for the future” point of view, than the US
Death to America
unlike the DPRK the South Korean military dictatorship installed by the USA actually did police haircuts [article]
Their hair in that picture isn’t even that long. Rest in piss Park.
Seems silly of them considering how prolific North Korean hackers are, at least according to Western media. They’ll just pass their silly hacking mini game and turn the turrets on South Korea
The US military did a test with something like 20 soldiers where they had to avoid detection by autonomous systems designed to detect humans.
Every single one of the soldiers used a different method and every single one of them succeeded in not getting killed by the system. Tactics varied from moving extremely slowly in prone position to literally metal gear solid hiding inside a cardboard box, one soldier covered themselves in tinfoil.
These will be no different. Easily defeatable simply by behaving in ways that are outside its detection, or not looking like a human being.
Didn’t one of them also hold a bunch of tree limbs and similar nonsense?
Not hard to avoid if you know what it is and have any sort of frontal lobe
I’ve heard from a lot of NATO leftists that China should be more like South Korea. People who say that only get their knowledge of that country from Kpop and Kdramas.
Kpop, Kdrama, and anime really influenced Western perspectives on East Asia.
I feel like I get most of my knowledge of South Korea from Kpop, and that alone is enough to see how dystopian it is.
Idols are dehumanized and treated as commodities. They’re overworked, starved, and heavily scrutinized starting at a very young age all while being separated from their family. Many trainees also can’t quit because they will owe a debt to the company for their training. Even trainees who debut don’t get paid until they pay the company back for their training.
I understand no one is forced to be an idol and it’s actually mostly made up of kids from wealthy families, but it’s still a brutal industry. When even the glamorous celebrities are worked to the bone, life must be so much harder for everyone else.
Tangential question. What do Americans think of their soldiers being in Korea and Vietnam? Does it strike as odd to the median American? These two countries posed no direct threat to the USA.
What do Americans think of their soldiers being in Korea
they don’t, it’s completely left out of most American education. if it’s there it is a brief one-sentence mention
Americans and think don’t go well in the same sentence. We tend to only think of the world as America, and everywhere else. I still catch myself doing it sometimes, America is a hell of a drug.
By the end of Vietnam most Americans were solidly against it, and I believe “Vietnam was a mistake” has broadly been the belief since then, but mostly because it got American soldiers killed, not because of the horrors they committed.
People opposed the draft. Vietnam itself didn’t see much more opposition than any other conflict America decided to stick its nose into, they just didn’t like the idea that they or their family members might be expected to go fight in it
I do the same shit with Canadians about us having soldiers in Saudi Arabia, Africa, etc. They don’t care and seek to justify it totally and immediately.
I actually was in Canada for a bit and the impression that I got was that of a sense of banality where people did not know how buddy-buddy Canada has been with the US.
I was not “political” at that point. But the people I knew used to believe that Canada was similar to the US but with the “derangement” separated from the substance.
Canada is just the USA with a roughly 10 year policy lag and none of the global geopolitical power. Most Canadians see this and develop a superiority complex. They think “at least it’s not as bad up here” or “at least we’re not as brutal as them”. Class consciousness and worker solidarity is basically non-existent. We’re truly a puppet state.
10 year policy lag
By God are we working hard to close that gap
Yeah, you got it 100%.
This is JUST LIKE SQUID GAME.
Please don’t start defending North Korea, it’s going too far
I can accept today’s China, today’s Russia takes quite the mental gymnastics but sure, North Korea though is plain too far
Damn, you seem to take a strong authoritarian line, you want to tell people which countries they can “defend”, defend from what exactly? So any and all anti-Korean propaganda must go unchallenged according to you, because questioning any of it is “too far?” Just because you’ve internalized and enforce the thought control of your authoritarian society on yourself, doesn’t give you a right to thought police others.
You’re not allowed to talk about North Korea, at all, in any context or capacity, until you go read this book.
Like, you - specifically you - are forbidden from ever talking about the DPRK again, until you go read about what happened during the Korean war in this book. Every time you decide you want to say something about North Korea, I want you to ignore all those smirking news anchors and smug headlines telling you stories about unicorns, haircuts, and concentration camps and remember that you have to go read the book.
It’s not a super long book. The link I provided is free. Go read it. Until you do, anything you say here about Korea is going to be laughed at, by all of us.
i have a grasp on the history already but i wanted to check it out cause it looked like it would go more in depth. i just finished chapter one and wanted to say that this is a very good book so far. the writing is so easy to digest.
thanks for sharing, i hope more people read it.
I recommend it to anyone who’s able to recognize they’re obviously being denied a preposterous degree of context and information about Korea.
I’ll check it out
You can alternatively listen to season three of Blowback, which covers the Korean War.
Please do, and if you have questions come and ask us, everyone here will be glad to provide you with all the context or clarification you need. But I don’t think you’ll need it, it’s not a particularly complex book.
So you can accept the Uyghur genocide but you can’t accept DPRKs labour camps?
The DPRK has literally done nothing wrong lmao
Russia is an evil capitalist hellscape oligarchy, no one should defend Russia. But the DPRK’s entire history has been one of oppression by the US. They haven’t even had the chance to do anything evil if they wanted to lol
they’re lying about china and russia, but telling the truth about the DPRK?
we respect the Red, White, and Blue around here, friend
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the existence of a shoot-on-sight no-go zone several kilometers wide opens up options for some interesting hardware.
This is the mindset of terminally STEM-brained people. I had to unlearn so much of that “this is very interesting problem when seen in isolation, i don’t need to think about anything else” after leaving engineering school.
I had a group project and the engineer in our group said: “Without the slur users the system would be working perfectly!”
Did I mention it was a project for human machine interfaces and we were also graded on user friendlyness?
I genuinely consider studying CS and being entrenched in the culture and ideological framework that comes with it harmful brain development
One time we had a guest lecturer come in who’d done a lot of work for the US Navy and NATO
Somebody asked about the ethics of building weapons for the US and he said “Well, the way I see it there are bad guys out in the world, and we have to protect the innocent people from them.” I probably turned 30% communister that day
