• Skavau@piefed.social
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    You can be upset about the split of Korea without necessarily endorsing and calling for all Koreans to be controlled by a hereditary absolute monarchy with red paint.

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      calling for all Koreans to be controlled by a hereditary absolute monarchy

      Look up what a Chaebol is. Five/Six (depending on how you count them) aristocratic families control virtually the whole country.

      That’s exactly how the current South Korean state operates.

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          Didn’t the South Korean government just narrowly avoid a Parliamentary coup a few months ago? Wasn’t this instigated by a President who claimed the entire opposition party was North Korean spies and infiltrators, and that he needed to seize power on the grounds that they’d be rounding up everyone who disagreed with them and have them executed if he didn’t?

          It seems like South Koreans have been promoting the “In North Korea, everyone kills one another for treason constantly” Red Scare mythology for so long that they’re destabilizing their own country’s national leadership fighting these phantoms.

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            And the President was impeached for it. No-one in Korea genuinely believed his excuse for the attempted coup. Korea is far healthier at dealing with corrupt presidents than the USA.

          • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusOP
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            social credit score +100

            good work, comrade weevil, you’re doing the people’s work!

            you’re obviously a braindead fucking tankie, so I don’t have any interest in our association anymore and will be blocking you.

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              social credit score +100

              My brother in Christ…

              Your actual credit score is far more of a burden on you than the fantasy one you’ve invented to scare yourself.