• jobbies@lemmy.zip
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    14 days ago

    Yeah I’m not sure this is a meme.

    Doesn’t meet the min requirement of being funny.

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    14 days ago

    True but, despite how soulless it is, I’d still rather live in the occupied zone. It’s financially privileged by the West though, so that makes sense. 🤷

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        14 days ago

        What’s with all the Korea shit recently?

        I live in South Korea. It’s convenient, safe, and modern. I might be biased because I live in Gangnam, but I feel like people here have more spending power on average than people in the US.

        The societal pressure is a fucking nightmare, but that’s a uniquely Korean thing. Nothing to do with the US.

        Calling the South under foreign occupation is utter nonsense. Obviously, it’s hyperbole and propagandist, but it also acts like Korea doesn’t have its own culture or resist American influence. Quit trying to be edgy and use your brain.

        If you want to talk about occupation, read up on the Japanese occupation of Korea. That was foreign occupation.

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          14 days ago

          but it also acts like Korea doesn’t have its own culture or resist American influence

          Also… I am no Korean expert, but doesn’t North Korea have, uhh… some influence from their northern neighbors, too? Like, significant influence?

          I wouldn’t call the North ‘occupied’ either, and obviously the agreements and military logistics are different, but still, it seems a bit hypocritical to call South Korea an assimilated vassal or whatever.

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          14 days ago

          To give you a real answer and not a canned response by a North Korean propagandist lol, the uptick in Korea-posting is probably due to the fact that Trump and the South Korean president met either yesterday or the day before, and the meeting (afaik) went well. I’m no fan of Trump, but I can also recognize that SK is a long-standing US ally, so I’m glad things went well. Obviously, NK is pissed that it went well so they’re sending out propaganda for dipshit “leftist” westerners to parrot brainlessly while also likely having their own people comment on places like this.

          International politics is weird nowadays and everything revolves around social unity/division through internet platforms.

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            13 days ago

            Yeah, I realized that when I saw that news later. Not sure about the DPRK explicitly sending out propaganda, but it makes sense the it would get pro-DPRK folks active

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        14 days ago

        Sometimes (but rarely, I’d like to believe) I make decisions out of convenience and leave my ideals behind, what can I say. 😓