Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea?
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 days agoDid I or did I not add the tongue-in-cheek qualifier “accidentally” to licking boots to signify the benefit of the doubt of the people falling into this trap?
What “trap”?? The “trap” of correctly refuting misinformation? How generous of you!
Not so distant if we’re going to be fighting a proxy war against them.
Oh, well that’s very simple. Don’t fight a proxy war against them. I think I may not have expressed my position properly: there are no foreign threats anywhere that are anywhere near as important and dangerous as the ones here at home.
Let’s do a quick quiz. Question 1: I can’t afford health insurance. The people primarily responsible for me not having access to healthcare live in which city?
- A. Pyongyang
- B. Moscow
- C. Beijing
- D. Tehran
- E. Washington D.C.
Question 2: Which country’s government poses the greatest threat to my safety and has the greatest ability to imprison/kill/harm me, as an American?
- A. North Korea
- B. Russia
- C. China
- D. Iran
- E. US
Now, would you kindly explain to me why I should rally behind the people who are most likely to harm me and who are the reason I don’t have healthcare against people thousands of miles away?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What the fuck are you on about, Jessie?
Listen, if you’re going to be this disrespectfully disingenuous, I’d rather you stop right now because you’re already getting into the realm of obnoxious and condescending. Yuck.
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Saying that people are licking boots “accidentally” by calling out and refuting misinformation is not notably better than saying that they’re licking boots intentionally. “I should be able to say whatever I want about this country, true or not, and if people push back, they’re accidentally licking boots” doesn’t become ok because it includes the qualifier “accidentally.”
If I’ve misinterpreted you, you’re welcome to explain what you meant. Or to drop it in favor of my other points, which you seem to be evading.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Who is saying that?? 😅 If you in the process of clarifying something start overreaching in the wrong direction, you’re giving them leeway they don’t deserve. It’s simple, dude. I’ve seen it happen with people denying and downplaying horrible shit. Just like you want people to not overstate their actions, I don’t want people understating them either as I’ve seen some people do, on purpose or not aka “accidentally”, or as I’m thinking it, “sin querer queriendo”.
That’s the whole reason I’m telling you that I agree with you and that we’re fucking splitting hairs.
Loved the absurd tangent though, but I guess we need focus and surgical precision when it’s my turn to answer, huh.
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
This is like an antivaxxer trying to be generous by saying that maybe pro-vaccine people are only “accidentally falling into the trap” of supporting Bill Gates’ demon army or whatever.
I’ve already established that you included the person you responded to as being part of this group of North Korea defenders for simply refuting misinformation. Rather than saying that people like that “accidentally falling into a trap,” how about considering the possibility that they’re right and have good reason for saying what they do?
Now you’re even backpedaling, like “maybe” their accidentally falling for a trap, maybe they’re outright foreign agents, which we can tell because they had the audacity to refute misinformation.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
You are saying that, you dishonest little toad.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
You hypocritical little toad.