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[–] birdcat@lemmy.ml 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

not joking, i know someone who visited the dprk and one of the places where they make those posters. then the visitor politely asked and was allowed to take some of them home. the friggin hand painted originals!

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)

my biggest (maybe) delusion is I could go to North Korea and be fine on account of I treat people like humans

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[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 30 points 7 months ago

This is what westerners can’t comprehend. When they were allowed to travel to the DPRK they would gawk and stare and ask questions like “do they shoot you if you don’t pray to Kim Il Sung ten times a day?”. North Koreans aren’t brainwashed bumpkins. They are arguably more emotionally healthy and inarguably more well versed in the world around them than Americans. You get treated like that by some random gringo from Omaha, yeah you’re probably gonna be a little rude to them. That’s better than what those American tourists deserve.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 30 points 7 months ago

I'm jealous

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

what's the context? who is it?

[–] redline@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 7 months ago (2 children)

otto warmbier, was caught trying to steal a poster at his hotel in the dprk and died after being repatriated following serious health complications during his incarceration

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago (7 children)

they killed him because of a poster?

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 48 points 7 months ago (21 children)

He died after his conviction. American coroners found no evidence that he was killed or tortured. The settler probably never worked a real day in his life.

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[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

No they detained him because he was acting sketchy as hell stealing shit and acting like a spy. Then he had a medical issue while incarcerated, went into a coma and there’s no evidence of DPRK doing anything to him.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

He seems to have gotten botulism and then his parents pulled the plug on him after his vegetative body was returned

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

His body had no bedsores on it and no evidence of torture. They were turning him multiple times a day to prevent bed sores, just like medical professionals are supposed to

The torture accusations are completely unfounded.

[–] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Looks like he got beat up by the cops after he caused a disturbance. Then died of complications. Not great. Maybe if we let the dprk have proper medical supplies that wouldn't have happened

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No evidence of any beatings or torture whatsoever

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[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

Also in addition to what others have said, this wasn’t just a poster in some random hotel. It was a poster from a specific floor in that hotel that was used for official military purposes, has restricted access, and he was told explicitly NOT to go there.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Also very funny:

That time the Singaporeans sentenced a cracker to 6 lashes of a cane for vandalism. Bill Clinton personally intervened and pleaded for leniency so the kind Singaporeans reduced his sentence - from 6 lashes to 4.

Also the Aussies pitching a fit every time one of their crackers gets a death sentence for bringing drugs into Bali.

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is just vibes and not a real analysis from me, but the death sentence for drugs thing really bums me out. Ya I know we're settlers, but the guys doing trafficking are usually poorish and in a bad spot in life. I haven't thought this out, so don't @ me if I'm 100% wrong.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this just the "I was poor so I had no choice to join the military and kill even poorer brown people" sentiment?

Why does someone who choses to externalize their suffering on even less fortunate people deserving of any sympathy at all? Indonesia is a poor developing country with insufficient addiction support resources. Trafficking drugs and supporting organized crime in countries like that is absolutely going to get people killed.

I don't really agree with the death penalty either, but I really struggle to play my tiny violin when the fucking whitey colonists act like they can't be held responsible for the very widely known consequences of their bullshit.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this just the "I was poor so I had no choice to join the military and kill even poorer brown people" sentiment?

if they were in the CIA trafficking to fund counterrevolutionaries, maybe. normal traffickers are not an imperial attack, it's standard consequences from inequality. the laws that allow your schadenfreud wrt aussie traffickers kill way more people from the poor country

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[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That time the Singaporeans sentenced a cracker to 6 lashes of a cane for vandalism.

Singapore is part of the imperial core, a capitalist country with limited freedom of speech and assembly. It isn't based to beat a teenager until the point of bleeding for doing his part against car culture, even if the teenager in question was an asshole. This is just like cuckservatives gleefully getting precum in their adult diapers when teenagers in america get shot by the police or small business owners for theft, even if you can argue that such *examples are not comparable since the thefts were out of necessity while Michael Faye was being a little shit. Its just not right for capitalist "civil society" to physically punish the youth.

Also the Aussies pitching a fit every time one of their crackers gets a death sentence for bringing drugs into Bali.

Indonesia is also a capitalist country which, with Australia's help mind you, performed an invasion and genocide of neighboring East Timor to destroy their socialist government. Even if the Australian "people" who go there to "party" deserve slow painful deaths, such retribution should be meted out by the people, not the fascist government.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Waaaahhhhhhh white people can't face consequences for their actions unless a government of the exact form I like is dishing out those consequences.

Maybe crackers should have thought about that before killing, raping, looting, and enslaving their way across the entire globe for the last half millennium.

It is always self defense to beat a cracker.

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Maybe crackers should have thought about that before killing, raping, looting, and enslaving their way across the entire globe for the last half millennium.

but

Singapore is part of the imperial core, a capitalist country with limited freedom of speech and assembly.

Indonesia is also a capitalist country which, with Australia's help mind you, performed an invasion and genocide of neighboring East Timor to destroy their socialist government.

These countries are part of the same world order established by the killing, raping, looting, and enslaving you mentioned, which in fact, they continue to help perpetuate because they inherited colonial patterns of political economy, subservient to the global elite of white nationalist colonialism.

We shouldn't celebrate their cruel form of "justice" because it is antithetical to the preservation and enabling of human flourishing. They are corrupt, fascist monsters to be destroyed.

Waaaahhhhhhh white people can't face consequences for their actions unless a government of the exact form I like is dishing out those consequences.

"PEOPLE NEED TO BE BEATEN AND KILLED FOR PETTY CRIME OTHERWISE THE IRREDEEMABLE HUMAN SOUL WILL FALL TO EVIL!!!!"

Right wing christian brainworms. When it comes to meting out violence, how can you trust governments with the most cruel ideology to be fair and just?

[–] farting_weedman@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Recognizing that anglo disgust at other countries retributive notions of justice only extends to white anglos and ridiculing it is not the same thing as celebrating that system of justice.

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Recognizing that anglo disgust at other countries retributive notions of justice only extends to white anglos and ridiculing it

Thats not the context I got, OP's post is ridiculing some white libshit for fucking around and finding out in DPRK (based), not about asymmetry of disgust based on whiteness.

To this, the other anon responded that its "funny" how some kid got beaten by Singapore and Australians get killed in Bali for drugs, to the dismay of their respective governments. Singapore isn't doing "self defense" when they cane teenagers for doing dumb shit.

I agree though, they only get disgusted when its a white citizen and/or when the country is their geopolitical enemy. Saudi Arabia beheads people for being gay and none of the western elite give a shit. I apologize if this is what anon meant originally, its just that I hate the Singaporean, Malaysian, and Indonesian governments to hell and back for their bullshit.

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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Tuong_Nguyen

Does it suddenly become not ok if its a non-white Australian

Wtf are you on about?

"Actually the war on drugs and state violence is good actually if its used against white people"

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I do wonder if they’ve managed to avoid the white worship that plagues their neighbors

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

Their movies have a big Amerika bad theme. I pray they do.

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