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[-] joseangel@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Not necessarily, North Korea is technically a republic.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 20 points 2 years ago

No, it's not. They have a hereditary head of state who enforces his rule with control of the military.

[-] yata@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That is why it is technically a republic, but not in practice. The constitution says it is a republic, and they actually have an election for the role of head of state, well "election", but of course in practice that is not how it works at all.

The US is also technically a representative democracy, but in practice, well...

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 9 points 2 years ago

I'm saying it's just a lying monarchy.

A pile of shit isn't a rose because you call it a rose. You're just lying.

[-] yata@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Your reading comprehension leaves something to be desired. We are in agreement, you are just a moron who can't read.

Also I am not lying, I am stating facts.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

It's not "technically" a republic because it has a hereditary ruling line. Period.

You weirdly angry goon.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Who was the third head of state again? (Hint, it isnt Kim Jung Un)

Well cited effortpost on hexbear about the dprk: https://hexbear.net/post/196389

[-] joseangel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Now I see what they got defederilized from Lemmy, so much blatant malinformation.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

They literally are federated with the main lemmy instance.

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

It's not just a Republic its a people's Republic.

So you know like way better. That's why they don't need elections it already says it belongs to the people

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They literally hold elections following a concensus process.

Well cited effortpost on hexbear about the dprk: https://hexbear.net/post/196389

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago
[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sorry you prefer to choose between bad and worse every election over reaching concensus in a constituent meeting and then voting to confirm the candidate in an election, but that doesn't make the dprk's system less democratic

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

That's a hell of a rant for an obvious joke comment

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

"Sigh" isnt a joke comment, it is a redditism

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Is the joke that westerners don't understand how dprk nominations and elections work?

[-] mrnotoriousman@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lol how old are you? That was a thing before reddit even existed. Just goes to show the tankies on here are literally kids larping

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, but it is also a thing I only see reddit refugees doing.

Just goes to show the tankies on here are literally kids larping

I've literally been politically engaged as part of a socialist org for a decade, maybe it is you larping?

You know, with the tankie thing. You're doing an excellent McCarthy impression, but I dont think you're actually on the un-American activities committee.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Racist "believe anything the US says about a state enemy they've previously committed genocide on" bootlicker

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Two words: Tienanmen square. If you have anything that resembles a defense of that you're a POS. And you do.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The holocaust

The Bengal famine

The potato famine

WW1

WW2

The Vietnam war

The slave trade

Immigrant concentration camps

Apartheid/Segregation

If you have anything that resembles a defense of that you're a POS

Imagine thinking the June 4th incident -where around 300 people died, slightly less than half of those people being unarmed PLA soldiers- can be used to condemn a system as large as China while every capitalist country has done much, much worse.

Hell, say the cultural revolution, say the post-civil-war famine, the way the cpc handled them can reasonably be criticized, and they are, by the current cpc.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah you're right, we've got to destabilize a country of 1.4 billion people over 300 deaths more than thirty years ago

Thousands of extrajudicial killings by US police every year? What's that?

[-] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

The hand job place near me is also technically a foot job place.

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