At least they don’t make hidden blocklists to shadownban dissenting opinions. They just dunk on you publicly.

I have a great Modlog, probably the best Modlog in the fediverse. People look at my Modlog and ask: How do you do it sir? That's a beautiful Modlog you have there. My ballroom is gonna be beautiful too.

Oh my god the /r/pyongyang jokes from 15 years ago are just reality now.

why do you support subjugating north korea to brutal sanctions?

Damn in hindsight, it's obvious he's a lying piece of shit rapist, but at the time it was obvious too.

Nah you see a real republican would have bombed them into submission and sent in the seals to finish the job /s

Fr the only chance of winning would have been by perfectly following the rules of war, showing restraint, and working to arm dissidents and build a resistance capable of running a successful rebellion and governing well. Followed by us helping the new government build itself up. We learned nothing in Vietnam, we learned nothing in Iraq, and by fuck we managed to learn nothing in Afghanistan. We also managed to completely unlearn everything we learned in France, Germany, and Japan.

But had we learned all this we wouldn't have gone in alone, we'd've asked for the UN to call for troops to protect the protesters and worked with the international community to protect human rights.

... look, whatever it takes to get them to want him gone.

I don't care if it's because they think he's a secret space penguin as long as they vote to impeach and remove.

Actually I think it's simply that Kim Jong Un says nice things to Trump and is Trump's kind of guy, while his counterpart in SK Lee Jae Myung is a kind of bad ass progressive.

Perhaps someone will be along in a moment to tell me how wrong I am but from wikipedia Myung seems to have a pretty amazing story:

Lee grew up in poverty and often missed social activities because his family lacked the funds, relying on school faculty's support to join field trips and community events. He cited fishing along the creek with friends as one of his favorite pastimes

Like other children from poor families, Lee worked in a handmade necklace factory instead of attending middle school. When the necklace factory went bankrupt, he found work at Dongma Rubber. Because he was underage, he worked under various aliases. While working there, Lee injured his finger

After the first accident, Lee left Dongma Rubber and worked for Daeyang Industry. There, an industrial press crushed his wrist joint in a second injury. The wound went untreated and resulted in a permanent arm disability.

Lee has stated his own experience with severe poverty inspired his political philosophy of "suppressing the strong, helping the weak" (억강부약; 抑強扶弱; eokgangbuyak), which seeks to curb the privileges and excesses of the powerful and support society's poorest members

... [becomes lawyer] ...

After opening his own lawyer's office, Lee organized for labour and human rights with the lawyers' organization Minbyun, working with the heads of labour counselling centers in Incheon and Gwangju. In 1995, he started a civic movement as a founding member of the 'Seongnam Citizens' Association'. He gained fame as a lawyer and social activist in relation to the "Park View" preferential sale case, where an investigation suggested corruption in the awarding of building permits and preferential sales of property in Bundang to government officials.

On 2 January 2024, Lee was stabbed in the left side of his neck while holding a question and answer session with reporters after touring the construction site of a planned new airport located on Gadeokdo in Busan.

Lee gained international attention in 2024 when, after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law and attempted to stop the National Assembly from convening using the military, he continued to go to the Assembly building anyway. Lee started a livestream on his YouTube channel, recording himself in a car driving to the National Assembly and climbing the National Assembly building fence to bypass the military personnel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jae_Myung

What a guy. I suspect that he is one of the few national leaders who has refused to felate Trump's ego.

Trump begged the South Koreans to join on Trump's Iran war. SK said go pound sand. Trump is throwing a tantrum like the baby he is.

He's trying to throw S. Korea under the bus cause they refused to help against Iran. Assume "petulant child" and you'll get his intention 90% of the time.

werent like half of the files released already?

"Internet, do your thing 😎😂"

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North Korea has the nukes, and any US surface ships within missile range have been sitting ducks for years. Trump is just the only one who can pass off a retreat as a victory.

There's a relationship between hacking and North Korea, but its not in the direction you're proposing.

why do you oppose lifting sanctions on north korea?

One thing we know Trump is legitimately good at is manipulating rubes.

“Thank you for your attention to this matter" is actually quite subtle; it's got "you" and "your attention" in the same sentence, making it feel like he could be talking to you personally rather than as a group (compare e.g. Biden's common "May God bless you all").

"Hey, Trump thanked me for my attention, there's a guy who respects and values my time and opinions, and the fact that he says it in every one of his messages only means that he really does care what I think."

The way he always signs his tweets, or whatever truth social calls them, that gets me. We know it's you you idiot, it's on your account

The last actual test by North Korea was in 2017.

The US did over 1000 tests since WWII. So?

The tankies describe themselves as such.

To not be associated with them, more actual far-left adherents need to actively disavow the tankies.

Sorry, that doesn't play into the both-sides false-equivalency rhetoric. Please delete this comment.

Tankies:

Edit: actually i think i wouldn't put them exactly in that X axis position, i am sleepy so ain't gonna try to understand well their exact position so that's good enough

You can be left and authoritarian. At least outside of the US you can, in America all politics get squashed into a single binary choice, so it seems weird.

The left-right spectrum makes less sense to me by the day.

However, I personally define tankies as authoritians who do some mental gymnastics to think that a benevolent "socialist" dictatorship equates to control of society by the workers. (It obviously doesn't. A dictatorship by a minority is exactly that)

Anyone who defines North Korea as socialist needs to reconsider their political positions, in my opinion.

Just because they're in opposition to the capitalist South Korea and the worst imperialist nation in the world, the USA, doesn't mean you need to stand behind the North Korean regime...

All the cool socialists think campism is brainrot (my opinion)

Tankies are what happens when you go all the way left and all the way up into Authoritarianship