If you agree you’d probably love the season of the podcast “Blowback” on North Korea. You are right. I am just only scratching the surface.

I can’t recommend that podcast enough. Really great historical materialism wrapped in a very well produced podcast.

North Korea is not an aggressive country invading another country like Japan did. So, I really don’t see the comparison you’re trying to make. They are a victim of Japanese Imperialism followed by that being replaced with US imperialism after WW2. Primarily used to test the USSR after WW2. Something the US attempted to portray as a threat. Even though the USSR took the vast majority of casualties to defeat the Nazis and were in a mode of recovery similar to Europe at the time.

The restrictions on trade to Korea have failed in the same way they have failed with Cuba. Cuba is a better and more successful example of resistance to US imperialism. I would not say I am a fan of what NK and it’s isolation has become over time. But I would not pretend it is a result of anything less than a genocide performed on their population by US bombing campaigns. If you want to understand why NK is the way it is you need not look further than the genocide of its people followed by decades of trade restrictions and isolationist policies enforced by the west.

To pretend that any country’s people would not benefit from being able to participate freely in global trade is just wrong. Your talk of drug trade or otherwise is literally pointing to desperation of black markets because of their lack of ability to participate in other trade with most nations. You’re pointing to the effect and pretending it’s the cause.

If anything, the trade restrictions reinforce the isolationist policies and “lack of liberal ideas of freedom” that most people criticize North Korea for are entirely caused by the reinforcement of their isolation.

I am not an appologist for the rulers of North Korea. I would love to live in a world where I could critize their leadership apart from what I have explained above. But, I cannot, in good faith, pretend that North Korea is anything but the inevitable result of a post WW2 anti USSR western policy of the west. A policy that has outlived is usefulness.

North Korea was the “boogieman” that would get nukes and destroy the world. Well, they have nukes. They are not doing that. If anything, we have learned more in the last few decades that obtaining nukes is a means to ensure the US will not attempt regime change in your nation.

North Korea can and should be given the opportunity to trade freely with other nations and not be a victim of a fear mongering from a red scare era of US imperialism.

Well now it can be a SWERF and TERF paper.

A good deescalation would be an end to the trade restrictions the west imposes on North Korea. Cuba too while we are at it.

Would actually be a nice “fuck the US” thing for the rest of the west to do. Especially with these tarrifs. Cuba especially. Since it’s basically just been the US and Israel voting against ending the illegal trade embargo on Cuba for the last 40 something years.

Edit: Vote in the UN.

Yeah and all the “40 babies in ovens” articles were not opinion articles because a dumb old man with ass cancer lied about it when he was president.

I think this being “opinion” is more telling of what our media decides to label as such.

What about me? I’m a cis male but 240 lbs and probably about a B cup. Maybe she’d be ok with that? I’m not trans!

Seriously though, this Transphobia is the real mental health problem. Such a hyper focus on the most boring stuff but it’s scary because “they’re trans!”

Like, how many stories about gay men working in a women’s clothing store do we get? None? Then shut the fuck up!

While I appreciate the liberals calling balls and strikes in the Trump administration I am frustrated at this point that that is all that is being done.

Like, there is a point at which pointing to a broken judicial, electoral, and economic system and saying “hey! They are fucking this up” is just a shield to that administration to make people feel like something is being done to resist it. And they are not.

It’s like, if I was a investigator and I kept pointing to the stabbing victim and saying “I know exactly who is at fault!” But I never actually opened a case and those guilty never saw their day in court. All I did was give people a false sense that justice would be served when they saw the victim. So, those that heard me shout “I know who is at fault” are left with the false satisfaction of justice (or at the very least resistance) and never look much beyond that and continue with their life wondering why there are so many people on the street getting stabbed still.

That’s what it feels like when I listen to the Democratic party and it’s leadership. It feels like they are the party of “acknowledging bad things” and nothing more.

Like, you can call balls and strikes. But if you’re going to tell us for years that “Trump is a threat to democracy” and have zero plan or effort to throw him out of the game when he charges the pichters mound. Then you’re not an “umpire” for democracy. You’re just an announcer in a game without an ump.

Edit: sorry, double analogy in my scattered brain.

Well, not entirely. There are cases for which a person utters the wish and it is not counted. “I wish for a million wishes!”

The standard is for the genie to explain the exceptions but not count that as a wish.

Now, it could decrement the count after this check. But just decrementing the count before verification would be sloppy.

But, then again, basic verification would also include checking that wishes_remaining <= MAX_WISHES.

Which, I think is a pretty standard check for genie’s. Given that that constant has remained at 3 since their beta days and exceptions are thrown for violations of this rule.

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I think I can answer most of your questions by saying he comes over to discuss the lease in a Mercedes Maybach. An SUV that starts at $178,000.

I don’t think age or other things really matter at that point.

He owns multiple properties and houses.

But, still, my entire point is that this relationship in itself is what needs to die. It’s not this individual dudes fault. It’s a system that allows people like this to exist that produce nothing.

I literally asked. He said he’s not selling.

Landlord said to me “property tax has gone up. This is my only form of income. Will need to increase rent”

Told him “yeah, everything has gone up and my paycheck is still the same”.

Like, these types of relationships are so parasitic. This is the “nice” mom and pop style landlord too that every liberal seems to want to give a pass too.

Sure, are they less bad than the big corporate faceless landlords? Yes. But the entire relationship is the problem.

They get to justify forcing me out of my home because the value of the house that they own WENT UP.

That’s why their property tax is more. They literally own something that is more valuable and making it further impossible for me to ever buy a place of my own.

12 years take on the unjustifiable hierarchy of grown ups?

Is this some really weird class analysis that involves generational heirarchy?

Like, is this the anarchist meme of “bed time is a parental construct from an unjustifiable hierarchy?”

Seriously, though. I must be misunderstanding what you are trying to say.

If you completely lack class analysis. Sure.

Jews and minority groups are specifically used as scapegoats for the inequality and exploitation that capitalism causes. It’s why fascism is a defense of capitalism when it is in it’s in decline.

Pointing to the actual systemic causes is not a Nazi meme. And there has been no revolution in history in which the ruling class gave up power without first enacting violence on the lower class of society in order to maintain its power.

Threatening violence in response to the violence enacted by the ruling class is not a “Nazi meme”.

In a just world the ruling class today in America should be hung for their crimes of genocide.

Ha no worries. But that basically sounds like Washington state. But I guess maybe we have a lot more “outdoor” people here and maybe that makes people more likely to not view firearms so negatively.

What state are you in? Washington SRA is my only experience.

Our SRA membership has surged since the election. Definitely more socialist understanding why they would want to be armed.

When “no fault” divorce was made legal it was literally a win for men and they didn’t even know it.

When a women wanted a divorce in the old days she’d just drop some visine in your morning coffee. Just a little bit every day until the problem was dealt with.

China is the king of those.

We don’t like this. But we like trade so we literally won’t change anything.