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      Because it has every right to be that way?

      "The number of Korean dead, injured or missing by war’s end approached three million, ten percent of the overall population. The majority of those killed were in the North, which had half of the population of the South; although the DPRK does not have official figures, possibly twelve to fifteen percent of the population was killed in the war, a figure close to or surpassing the proportion of Soviet citizens killed in World War II…

      Russian accusations of indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets did not register with the Americans at all. But for the North Koreans, living in fear of B-29 attacks for nearly three years, including the possibility of atomic bombs, the American air war left a deep and lasting impression. The DPRK government never forgot the lesson of North Korea’s vulnerability to American air attack, and for half a century after the Armistice continued to strengthen anti-aircraft defenses, build underground installations, and eventually develop nuclear weapons to ensure that North Korea would not find itself in such a position again… The war against the United States, more than any other single factor, gave North Koreans a collective sense of anxiety and fear of outside threats that would continue long after the war’s end."

      • Charles Armstrong, The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea
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    It’s insane. Israel struck first, blatantly and obviously, and it was reported as such initially. But it feels like by now the mainstream narrative has become “well who’s to say who really struck first?”

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      Of course they are. They’re working to manufacture our consent to regime change in Iran, which they’ve wanted since 1978 when their puppet regime was overthrown. It’s 2003 all over again.

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    "The international community is strictly watching the US and Western forces fanning up the flames of war

    Ooh burn!

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      Don’t they know that the G7 is the international community?

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        Side note: It never occurred me that the Family Guy card meme has the top section full-on #FFFFFF white.

        That’s not a person, that’s a ghost.

        I have a hunch that racist people would be hard to haunt because they’d just see you as a white person.

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          I have a hunch that racist people would be hard to haunt because they’d just see you as a white person.

          But they would never be entirely sure since they can’t caliper ghost’s skull.

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    waking up to tucker and n.korea being voice of reason while democrats are campaigning for pouring napalm on fire started by extreme right wingers of a genocider cult nation.

    man everyday seems like world has become an absurdist drama. the obama years seems like they never happened