axont [she/her, comrade/them] @ axont @hexbear.net

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Any supposed wrongdoing of the DPRK pales in comparison to what the USA did to the Korean people. Nine million Korean corpses lay at the feet of American imperialism, a number that continues to grow due to continued sanctions, spying, military exercises and aggression. The alleged wrongdoings of the DPRK's entire history do not even amount to the misery inflected by a single hour of American empire.

I'm not a coward who feels the need to avoid taking stances. I'm not a coward who finds moral equivalence in imperialism and defense against imperialism. The fact that the DPRK exists at all in such a context of overt hostility should be regarded as a supreme achievement. The DPRK manages to still stand, despite its hardships and this is a testament to the resilience of the Korean people and the power of socialism.

You're asking who the best manager was at the factory that turns children into sausages. America itself is ontologically evil and no president can salvage or reform it.

Abraham Lincoln is the closest a president came to being good, and even he was complicit in genocide. Every other president is equally terrible, on a scale of goofy evil to soullessly evil because the office of president is to administer a genocide machine. Jimmy Carter is one of the former presidents who seems aware that he's going to hell when he dies and is probably a little remorseful, but that doesn't excuse him at all. Theodore Roosevelt also seemed aware he was evil, but that might have just been his vanity.

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

Uncritical support to the ideology of Juche and its implementation

(ignoring context, and other countries who made similar pacts earlier)

One of those they like to ignore is how British PM Neville Chamberlain negotiated to let Nazi Germany annex the Sudetenland, which happened like six months before the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

I'm the only vegan at work, so management will try to facilitate that. But they can't remember which dietary restriction I have. Normally they think I'm diabetic. Last time there was pizza I got pointed to one corner and my CEO said "don't worry, we have some gluten free pizza right here." Champs.

Good or bad it's everywhere and has its fingers in everything.

Capitalism is a function of everything that happens in a capitalist society

It's still weird in the context of humans made the show Star Trek. I actually like Neelix and Voyager but it was still a little weird. It felt like those times the writers want to inject their fetish into the script, or like in anime there will be a 10,000 year old vampire who looks 9.

Is that his birthday or something in Roman numerals? I think the Romans wrote dates as words.

also this guy's grandfather should have been killed so he wouldn't have been born

Yeah policy exacerbating the problems of the famine through mismanagement still shouldn't be described simply as man-made. At best you could call it a mismanaged famine. Man-made ascribes something deliberate to it.

It would be like calling the deaths by covid in America man-made. Which is sort of true, the US government engaged in negligence and let a million people die. But if I said "covid is man-made" that would be a poor way of framing it, right? It would sound like someone deliberately designed the disease.

i can say in full confidence I've never been tricked into clapping for a Nazi who was just introduced as a Nazi

yeah I know, that's why i want him to retire and hopefully spend the remaining years of his life away from stress

People online keep asking who the Michael Parenti of right now is. It's this guy.

With respect to Dr. Parenti, I know he's still alive, but I want him to enjoy his retirement.

Might depend on your social group and location. I live in the south where communist just means "extra left Democrat who also likes Russia."

24% of male podcast listeners and honestly that tracks. People who listen to podcasts are already weasely little nerds

I think that's just an insular internet thing. I don't even know what the popular perception of communists are. Probably just loud and annoying? Or someone who likes Russia a lot. There isn't really a coherent view of communism among people who aren't already into it.

Almost all of the violence happened away from the students and no one was killed in the square itself. There were other incidents around the city done by workers who were armed with guns and took a joyride in an APC. There were multiple protests being done by multiple groups without unity in their demands. To even unify the students with as broad of a demand as democracy is disingenuous. They were fighting one another for access to loudspeakers.

The students broadly represented the class of people favored by the 70s economic liberalization reforms. The workers were on the bad end of the reforms and were largely calling for a return of earlier, Maoist policies. It would be more accurate to say the students were more or less calling for increased liberalization, i.e., capitalism.

I love Michael Douglas