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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I mean, this isn’t specific to capitalism. Pretty sure north Korea is similar.

    This is just baseline authoritarianism.

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      2 days ago

      Pretty sure north Korea is similar.

      The NYPD has a bigger budget than the DPRK. And New York hasn’t been under siege by Pennsylvania for the last 80 years.

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        2 days ago

        The NYPD is also not in constant famine, they’re one of the richest cities on the planet.

        That’s like being surprised rent is more expensive in midtown Manhattan than in rural Texas.

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          1 day ago

          The NYPD is also not in constant famine, they’re one of the richest cities on the planet.

          Because they’re an international trading hub at the central of a global empire.

          North Korea is a bombed out backwater with more economic sanctions on it than Cuba, whose people spent the last 70 years gradually rebuilding after the US literally bombed them back to the stone age.

          Even then, NYers are getting shot over proximity to fare evasion. Korea’s rough, but I’ve yet to hear of anyone executed for failing to pay for a bus ticket.

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            1 day ago

            I’m not the one who made the comparison.

            Also, bombed out? They were a larger economy than sk at first, Kim IL sung did an OK job.

            But the problem with a hereditary monarchy is the fastest sperm is often the dumbest, as evidenced by his 2 moron heirs.

            But no, his hereditary dystopian dictatorship where people are reduced to eating grass and anyone who disagrees ends up in camps is still better than NYC, where we know about incidents like this which everyone agreed was horrific because we have freedom of speech.

            But please, go to North Korea right now and start talking shit about Lil Un, I’m curious how that will go.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      I saw a meme that called Plainclothes Officers “Secret Police” and it made me realize how much we’re all brainwashed.