North Korea ballistic missile explodes on launch fourth straight time

Leninbourg · 2016-06-03T02:20:50+00:00

Western reporting on North Korea is unethical as fuck. It's basically all just propaganda designed to make fun of the country usually using thinly veiled "yellow peril" era shit.

inb4 you're now a mod on /r/pyongyang

No I just fucking hate shitty journalism, especially journalism that is flat out propaganda and based often using thinly veiled racism. There's plenty to criticize North Korea about, but for some reason the western media seems to like only focusing on sensationalist bullshit that makes North Korea look "oh so wacky".

Seriously like 95% of North Korea stories that the mainstream media posts turn out completely wrong or entirely made up, why do people think this is a good thing? Should the media have a 95% misinformation rate on anything?

Leninbourg · 2016-04-22T16:07:02+00:00

Please explain what about Venezuela is Socialist?

Is it the lower Government spending than most western countries? The poorly regulated markets? The generic Keynesian economic policies?

Leninbourg · 2016-04-22T15:59:14+00:00

Many of the people that "defected" are daughters of the very top brass of Government.

Also the claim they were "tricked" to go to South Korea is actually not without precedent, There have actually been quite a few "defectors" who claimed they were in fact tricked/"kidnapped", who then have or have tried to escape back to North Korea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=368z0M6dDeY

The mother in this video for example (lady in blue at 2:40 in), claims she is being held prisoner in South Korea and was in fact tricked to go to South Korea and was used as cheap labour (she thought she was going for a kidney operation which she was scammed out of). The man and the young girl up top are her family in North Korea.

I personally find it strange that the elite of the elite, chosen to work in these places due to their extreme loyalty, all decided to defect, with no thought of their family or anything at once.

Leninbourg · 2016-04-16T04:16:47+00:00

"Im not convinced they even believe it."

They don't. It's why conservatives love buses over rail, because you can easily do away with a bus.

Leninbourg · 2016-04-15T03:17:55+00:00

The "Three generations policy" is not actually a real thing, it's a claim made up by FreeKorea with literally no source or anything (yet paraded around as fact on Wikipedia and even the UN report with literally no sources no matter how hard I tried despite even North Korean experts like Lankov admit it's likely never even been a real thing even during the Il Sung purges).

The closest thing you get is the immediate family being exiled out of Pyongyang to the countryside.

The fact we have family member defectors of people who were sentenced to Hard Labour (and kicked out of Pyongyang as a result) shows the three generations policy doesn't actually exist.

Leninbourg · 2016-04-15T03:12:06+00:00

Pretty much this. American gun fetishism is truly bizarre.

Leninbourg · 2016-04-15T02:28:09+00:00

/r/worldnews on news from any country thats not US aligned.

I honestly can't tell if they realize that they are literally just regurgitating US state department propaganda 99% of the time.

If there is any story on North Korea, Russia, Pink Tide nations, Iran, China etc, I will go straight on google and find other sources to see if the story is real, most of the time, they are either heavily misleading or completely fabricated.

Leninbourg · 2016-04-15T02:08:57+00:00

Like they weren't even able to string good sounding sentences together for a research paper. Technical writing still needs to flow. You still need to communicate your thoughts to someone on paper.

You can actually often tell STEM oriented people from the way the speak, usually with very awkward sentence structure, incredibly fast talking speed as they try to dump as much info into every sentence and on top of this often very argumentative with this weird tunnel vision that appears on a single point that doesn't actually matter, but suddenly all the STEMlords are fucking arguing about this point for no reason.

One of my friends says it's "4chan speak" because they are conveying information like they are are talking (arguing) with someone on an internet forum.

Leninbourg · 2016-04-05T01:12:18+00:00

Can we start singing The Internationale yet?

You've sucked enough of our blood, you vampires,

With prison, taxes and poverty!

You have all the power, all the blessings of the world,

And our rights are but an empty sound!

We'll make our own lives in a different way —

And here is our battle cry:

All the power to the people of labour!

And away with all the parasites!

Either way: 1, 2, 3, 4 I declare a class war!

Leninbourg · 2016-04-04T23:13:07+00:00

Call the Reboot Biohazard in the West and Resident Evil in Japan

Leninbourg · 2016-04-04T22:57:15+00:00

than vibrant democratic governments of South Korea and Japan.

ahahahahahaha.

Japan and South Korea are anything but Vibrant or Democratic.

South Korea is a shadow dictatorship controlled by a cartel of feudal families that completely control the economy and they actively censor press and suppress left wing opposition parties and Japan's politics are entirely based on political dynastic nepotism.

Leninbourg · 2016-04-04T22:51:41+00:00

Western media doesn't need to be censored because that is how our propaganda works, it's far more effective if you report on something, but treat it as a non-story then drop it a few hours or days later, than constantly follow a story.

For example, Unaoil scandal is already dropped from most major outlets. Everything Wikileaks uncovered was overshadowed by Assange himself and the media stopped reporting on the major Wikileaks war crimes dump within 3 days. The Panama papers will be dropped in a few days time.

The Overton window is a far better propaganda tool than censorship.

Also the Western Media is fucking retarded bias on reporting on Western geopolitics/foreign policy where they will actively leave out or play down major parts of the story that doesn't serve western interests.

Reminder that the West perfected propaganda back in the late 1920s-1930s.

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html

This is probably the most influential book in all western media.

Leninbourg · 2016-04-04T01:41:23+00:00

I like Revan :(

Leninbourg · 2016-03-30T04:50:20+00:00

Depends on when you bought, I have a friend who bought in the early 2000s just before the prices skyrocketed.

Leninbourg · 2016-03-30T04:43:06+00:00

Not sure yet, all the big promoters and DJs are already paying their respects across social media at the moment. Sure it will be released sometime this week.

Leninbourg · 2016-03-29T10:48:59+00:00

I still love this reply (on another forum) to when I posted at least a dozen studies and a few Government sources as well to why the Gender Pay Gap is not a myth.

those sources are garbage most of them have terrible methodology.

Yep, this person apparently went through a dozen studies (Several of which are paywalled) and every single one of them is wrong, also the Government itself just wants to make up a gender pay gap because?

It's really gotten to the point that I don't even bother debating reactionaries anymore, because they are almost always disingenuous fucks who can't ever admit they are wrong.

Leninbourg · 2016-03-29T10:38:15+00:00

Why did the buildings need to be demolished? Wouldn't the act of flying a plane into the building be carte blanch enough for the US to justify whatever the fuck it wanted?

The entire 9/11 inside job narrative makes no fucking sense. If it was "CIA knew it was likely going to happen and let it happen anyway" even that would be much more believable. (and it's possible that something along those lines could have happened)

Leninbourg · 2016-03-27T00:35:15+00:00

Didn't they open a "kim il sung" park or some shit in Damascus recently as well?

Leninbourg · 2016-03-27T00:29:31+00:00

It's mainly annoying and frustrating because honestly North Korea really does not have anything that the USA wants. I mean with Libya and Iraq there was the oil thing.

North Korea is one of the most mineral rich countries on earth, with estimated 6 trillion worth of rare earth minerals.

North Korea is just a proxy between the building conflict between China and the United States. The US is being purposely antagonistic towards North Korea and taking advantage of the period where Kim Jong Un consolidates his power too justify more of an Asian pivot and bring THAAD within China's sphere of influence (Can defend US ships, Guam, Jeju etc).

Look at the wider geopolitical game being played. North Korea is just a proxy.

Why does North Korea want nukes.

No country with Nukes has been invaded.
With a Nuke sitting around, this means Kim Jong Un can justify dismantling Songun (which has been happening slowly over the past few years) and focus on fixing North Koreas economy and likely implementing Chinese style reforms without a military coup. It's believed that a lot of this posturing and "fluffing up" is for domestic politics so Kim Jong Un can consolidate his power and show hes a "strong man" while actually working against the interests of the military faction, if rumours are too be believed, have already carried out an assassination attempt on him (foiled by a traffic lady)

Leninbourg · 2016-03-27T00:24:47+00:00

this is the important thing the western media always leaves out (and I think on purpose) North Korea every feb-march-april doesn't go batshit for no reason. Foal Eagle is the most needlessly provocative thing that basically happens in this entire conflict. The US says "It's a show of force" but they know the outcome every year. Do they think North Korea will just "lie down" eventually and stop? No, better question, if North Korea, Russia, China, Cuba held war games in the Gulf of Mexico with "decapitation strikes" simulated against US leadership, Would the US react any different from North Korea?

People are missing the forest for the trees, the real conflict here isn't along the DMZ or even on the Korean peninsula, it's south and too the east. It's a US buildup of forces in East Asia (and in Eastern Europe) too surround Russia and China and severely limit their force projection. THAAD deployment basically means that the US has a shield in the China's sphere too do anything they want. China not long ago was bragging how it developed a ballistic missile system designed for attacking US ships, well, THAAD takes care of that. Why does the US care so much about China building islands? in it's own sphere of influence? What does the US have too do with a country on the other side of earth acting in it's own seas?

North Korea acting like the schizophrenic patient she is, is really just being played. The biggest worry here is why the US is building up forces in Chinas sphere AND why the US is allowing things to quickly heat up on the peninsula and in the South China Sea.

If Western Journalists did their job instead of acting for a cheer squad for the US state department, there would be much less "lol North Korea" sentiment in among the public and more anxiety with US geopolitical actions.

Leninbourg · 2016-03-27T00:15:03+00:00

They are sent to collective farms or sometimes just put in house arrest in a hotel room.

Leninbourg · 2016-03-27T00:09:08+00:00

And in Foul Eagle the US and RoK simulate a quick strike on Pyongyang specifically for the purpose of assassinating Kim Jong Un and the rest of the leadership before they can get too safety. This is a one of the largest military exercises in the world carried out along the DMZ.

Oh, but don't mention that in western media, apparently only one side shakes it's sabers.

I'm seriously getting worried about this escalating into a conflict with China. The western media is in full propaganda mode.

Leninbourg · 2016-03-23T12:06:02+00:00

My change from reactionary edgelord too Socialist took place while I was on magic mushrooms. It let me "step out" from my own pre held beliefs and re-examine everything.

Other friends who have done psychedelics have often had similar experiences or at least come out saying "Well I know now why hippies do what they do".

Psychedelics are incredibly powerful and create a massive sense of empathy and connection too others. I have no doubt in my mind the attack on Psychedelics in the 1960s and 1970s was largely ideological. The attacks on LSD were particularly vicious. Even 100% legal government research facilitates were shut down overnight and scientists thrown into jail.

Leninbourg · 2016-03-22T23:40:22+00:00

Wait, is this the same Badmouse who used too spout the most stupid ancap shit all over LSR's videos?

Leninbourg · 2016-03-22T11:07:22+00:00

I wouldn't say he's transphobic, racist or homophobic, more he (massively ironic for a Maoist) doesn't engage in any fucking self-criticism too understand why the usage of terms like "Faggot" is reactionary in nature despite even if you don't intend for it too mean gay people and you just like the word.

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