something that puzzles me about reactionaries speaking about north korea or any communist country, is the idea that they have a dictatorship so powerful that people aren’t able to fight against it, movies and spectacles accused as “staged” or “if he/she fails he/she will die with his/her family”. the typical idea of enemies “being weak and uberstrong at the same time”, like damn…if people in dprk were under a dictatorship so brutal as they say, you would hear more about uprisings and strikes more frequently than in USA, are you trying to tell me that the only “efficient dictatorships” are the communist ones? that capitalism isn’t able to keep people like pinochet or hitler more than a couple of decades and with constant revolts and a huge media industry? ok…
The worst part is when you fall for it and think there’s someone with a brain on the other end, so you waste time treating them like a human being instead of just pointing and laughing at a clown.
Yeah, it can be frustrating. I think it’s worth treating it like a bit of theater.
You’re not talking to a person, trying to convince them (that doesn’t work). You’re showing the couple of lurkers here how silly that viewpoint is, and how rad we are.
Or just taking the time to be a feral weirdo to a lib who’s used to the usual liberal fetish of politeness in tone over everything else. Either way works! 😁
Yeah, I’m all out of patience at this point, probably just going to do more of the latter, it’s way more fun.