• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    “the US doesn’t like”

    OMG, like North Korea isn’t bad, it’s just the US that “doesn’t like them”.

    Anyobe not knowing North Korea is the worst dictatorship on planet earth should get their brain tested.

    I mean this is what OP talks about (or so I feel), people so out of touch you can’t even have a normal discussion with them.

    It’s like talking about sexual abuse and someone saying that the person raped is now not “liking” the rapist, but a million times worse.

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      I’m a capitalist. The person you are responding to sounded very reasonable.

      “the US doesn’t like”

      That’s very true. The us does not like north Korea. That isn’t saying north Korea is good. It’s just saying there are motives at play to make north Korea look as bad as possible.

      If I said Jeffrey Epstein was a cannibal, you can say “no he wasn’t” without thinking he was a good person.

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        Not really important, but a capitalist is someone who has a significant amount of capital.

        Someone who supports the existence of capitalism is called a liberal.

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          Funny side note I think the problem with both systems is lazy people not doing what they should.

          I won’t go over the example for how lazy people could effect socialism because I’m sure you’ve heard it a million times before.

          I skip straight to capitalism.

          People don’t vote with their dollar like they should. Everyone hates Walmart, they still shop at Walmart. Everyone hates child slavery, they still buy chocolate. Women want real pockets in their clothing, they still buy clothing that does not have pockets.

          I’m lazy too in that way. I don’t shop at Walmart, and I don’t really like chocolate… But I hate how shitty airlines are… When I fly tho, I buy the cheapest ticket on the cheapest airline. Every single time.

          That’s the problem with capitalism. I’m lazy, we’re all lazy.

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          Yes someone explain my poor phrasing. They even mentioned the word I mentioned but I forget.

          I’m not the capitalist version of a tanky.

          I believe the concept of capitalism could work, and I believe it would work better than socialism. Another common ground I have with socialist is that I understand the examples of my preferred… Arrangement of society have been corrupted and not run under the ideas they claim.

          That’s what I mean by common ground and that’s where I sympathize. I wouldn’t want someone pointing at trump and saying “that’s capitalism!” And I would never point at Kim jun un and say “that’s socialism”

          I also understand the “ideal, pure, perfect implementation” of either idea probably isn’t possible.

          I lean more to capitalism.

          That’s what I meant when I said “I’m a capitalist” I misspoke.

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        What on earth do you think you saying you are a capitalist does?

        There are smart communists, and as you so succinctly prove, capitalists that are less so.

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          Pointing out I can disagree with someone’s ideas and still recognize when they are being very reasonable.

          capitalists that are less so.

          Ah the ol’ “you’re stupid” rebuttal. Works every time. Automatic win in every debate lol

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      This is what I’m talking about. The US not liking North Korea is an objective fact. But because people on the internet treat whatever you last posted as your entire identity and belief system, then you assume that’s the full extent of my position on North Korea. You expect me to do the typical signals to disavow and denounce the country as part of the strategy of the Western left distancing itself from AES states. But I’m not interested in signalling anything, for the reasons I explained. The strategy of allowing and repeating all sorts of sensationalist nonsense for fear that pushing back against it will tie you to the state in question just doesn’t work.

      Is North Korea really “the worst dictatorship on planet Earth?” Are they worse than, for example, Saudi Arabia? Are they so much obviously worse that anyone who thinks Saudi Arabia is worse “should get their brain tested?”

      It’s like talking about sexual abuse and someone saying that the person raped is now not “liking” the rapist, but a million times worse.

      Ok, maybe you’re right. Perhaps it’s important to mention the horrible things the US and North Korea have done to each other. Like when the US invaded and killed 15% of their entire population (primarily civilians), carpet bombed the country, and deployed all sorts of chemical weapons, or when North Korea, er, sorry, what did North Korea do to America that’s “a million times worse than rape?” Gonna have to refresh my memory on that one chief.