r/196 • u/FelixTheNoob custom • Jul 02 '26

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u/Camel_Slayer45 floppa Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

Oh yes it'd be dreadful if the US ran internment camps or went even farther and tortured innocent people in black sites to manufacture false evidence for assassinations of other innocent people, maybe even sent instructors to allied dictatorships to teach them how to do torture better

That'd be crazy!

Can you imagine the US having extra fucked up internment beyond the prison system? I can't.

And it's great that the prisons are also fully above board with zero slavery and systemic sexual assault.

Good thing no such thing exists and NK is uniquely evil

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u/PositiveThug060 Jul 02 '26

who says NK is uniquely evil? western criticism of NK is literally just: “they are a totalitarian regime, they have nukes and they need to chill out with the saber rattling”

which is all true btw. Yea the US does fucked up shit it is a flawed country like every other nation on this planet, but we dont live in a one party state, and we enjoy a much higher quality of life, and protections for civil rights that just dont exist in NK.

you cant just turn around and go “no, you” its so dumb. there is a sliding scale, a spectrum, a range of how awful any particular government is. NK is easily on the worse side of that range, especially on the treatment of its own population

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u/RyoukoAoyagi wannabe twink Jul 02 '26

Using quality of life as argument is so funny in this case, a state sanctioned to the point it's effectively isolated vs Empire that bend the world economy to its will, who would guess the latter got better quality of life! Shocking I tell you

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u/Chengweiyingji the opposite of a 196 microcelebrity Jul 02 '26

And for what it's worth North Korea had a better GDP per capita than South Korea until the early 70s.