Talk about life.

Started by talonmalon333, December 29, 2010, 11:20:38 PM

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LumRanmaYasha

Thanks for the encouragement and advice guys. It's comforting to know someone else can empathize with how I'm feeling left behind. And it really sucks how colleges can fuck you over your credits sometimes. But I'm sure you'll ace those community college classes and head to university in no time Foggle! I'm rooting for both of you guys!

Foggle

Yeah, I'm rooting for you guys too! :D

gunswordfist

Rooting for you all as well!!
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Painted Outlaw

#1098
I fourth the rooting for you guys.

Dr. Insomniac

#1099
Okay, why the fuck are there tankies defending North Korea?

It's like how the Socialism subreddit is banning Venezuelans because they're posting about how much living under socialism sucks. The internet is romanticizing all these horrible countries and their despot leaders because of shit going on in America. Like I've meant so many people on Twitter who think Cultural Revolution era China would be a great place to live in, and either forget or deny how much horrible shit happened in that period. And now they're acting like all the testimonies from North Korea escapees are Western propaganda, and that North Korea is actually a cool place to live in? Fuck that. These privileged pieces of shit who go "Marxism didn't kill that many millions of people. Mao is bae. <3" have no idea what it's like living under a Communist state. Yeah, capitalism's bad, the right wing sucks, and so on, but taking something that's caused so much agony to countless people no matter their class or creed and not only praising it, but wearing it online like it's a fashion accessory is such a fucking joke.

Foggle

#1100

Dr. Insomniac

#1101
Quote from: Foggle on May 18, 2017, 07:01:37 PM
Quote from: Dr. Insomniac on May 18, 2017, 06:06:44 PM
Okay, why the fuck are there tankies defending North Korea?
I love this guy. I genuinely can't tell if he's a parody account or not.
My parents think Mao's a cool guy, but they admit living in China back in the day was really shitty unless you were a farmer.

But parody or not, acting like everything bad about North Korea is just "imperialist lies" reeks of war crime denial. If you're gonna look at all these reports from people who survived North Korean gulags and say they're just shills for a western conspiracy, then you're no different from Alex Jones and his lunacy.

Foggle

Quote from: Dr. Insomniac on May 18, 2017, 07:05:56 PM
But parody or not, acting like everything bad about North Korea is just "imperialist lies" reeks of war crime denial. If you're gonna look at all these reports from people who survived North Korean gulags and say they're just shills for a western conspiracy, then you're no different from Alex Jones and his lunacy.
Did you check out her "proof?" It's a 20-minute YouTube video of some Australian dudes going on one of the guided North Korea tours and basically concluding that everything is totally cool over there because of the image they put up for paying visitors. Truly amazing.

Regime change never works out, and some communist dictators probably did want the best for their people at one point in time or another, but defending North Korea is unintelligible.

Dr. Insomniac

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Quote from: Foggle on May 18, 2017, 07:14:00 PM
Did you check out her "proof?" It's a 20-minute YouTube video of some Australian dudes going on one of the guided North Korea tours and basically concluding that everything is totally cool over there because of the image they put up for paying visitors. Truly amazing.
Oh God, those two shitty guys with their pornstaches and smug demeanor, acting like living in America is more dystopian than North Korea. It's self-absorbed, and makes light of the people who suffered under the Kims. I remember before Vice went to shit, they made a documentary where a couple guys did those North Korea tours, and they were shocked at how lonely it was there. A girl in a tea shop who only had a couple customers every year. All these soldiers who are propped and do nothing but show how cool their 1970s ships are. These banquets presented at giant rooms but with only five people. And how everything outside Pyongyang is so rural and lacking in anything resembling technology that it may as well be time-displaced.

QuoteRegime change never works out, and some communist dictators probably did want the best for their people at one point in time or another, but defending North Korea is unintelligible.
Yeah, that's why I'm getting so disillusioned by all these twitters preaching revolution and communism. It's like, do these people know anything about world history? Like when Iran had a revolution to depose the Shah, but it went wrong, and they ended up with an Ayatollah who created an even more conservative nation? Or the Holodomor? Or Khmer Rouge?

Or do they just go like Michael Moore, and believe that every single fuck-up in a leftist nation was all because of American interference and not occasionally because of inner corruption? Or just how hard it is to get millions of people in a nation to suddenly accept a new form of government, trade, and society? Every time you point this out to a Marxist, they always mention how America and Britain did horrible things too. And that's true, but that doesn't absolve all these leftist countries of their own crimes.

Commode

It doesn't matter what you say, soon you'll be dead anyway.

Commode

lol my posts on this site are victim to Photobucket being garbage.  Sad.
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Spark Of Spirit

Yep, it finally sold out. Had to move everything over.
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Kiddington

I haven't changed my profile here in like, five years. This feels wrong.

Photobucket can get fucked.

Avaitor

Hey guys, we survived Irma pretty well. As I was expecting, it didn't hit as badly as we were warned it would- hit went down to a category 2 when it hit us, and now it's just a tropical storm. But we lost power right when I decided to check the board last night. That lasted about 12 hours.
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Dr. Ensatsu-ken

I completely forgot that you lived in Florida. At any rate, I'm glad to hear that you and others in your area managed to stay safe through the storm.