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DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Slate’s Joshua Keating pointed out that, while the latest haircut story is almost certainly a hoax, it isn’t without precedent. Back in 2005, North Korea launched a media campaign which argued that long hair “consumes a great deal of nutrition” and should thus be kept short.

You believe shit like every man in the country has to get the same haircut?

No, but it seems that they have to have short hair. This seems to be the case with many Communist countries past and present.

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NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There haven’t been any communist countries in the past and there certainly aren’t any in the present, lol.

Regardless, men aren’t forced to get the same haircut as Kim Jong un, despite dozens of western sources claiming it over the years. This is an example of the bullshit I was talking about.

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- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  There haven’t been any communist countries in the past and there certainly aren’t any in the present, lol.
  
  So the Kim Gang weren’t/aren’t true Scotsmen?
  
  Regardless, men aren’t forced to get the same haircut as Kim Jong un, despite dozens of western sources claiming it over the years. This is an example of the bullshit I was talking about.
  
  It was an exaggeration, like saying that the US is fascist, that Trump is a moron, or that Hasan Piker, or BadEmpanada, is totally absolutely undeniably right.
  
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  - NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Tell me what the definition of communism is and then tell me which country has ever fit that description.
    
    You think calling the US fascist is an exaggeration, lmfao?
    
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    DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    IIUC, even the Communists say that communism doesn’t exist, and that they were in a socialist phase.
    
    IIRC I’ve read the term “Actual Socialist Countries”.
    
    You think calling the US fascist is an exaggeration, lmfao?
    
    Fascists have an ideology. Trump pretty well has none, and he’ll be gone in 27 months if not sooner.
    
    You are free to protest against Trump in the US; call ICE goons names—scream at them even; IIUC no one has been conscripted in over 50 years; there are still Pride Parades—even now, the US is less homophobic than today’s Russia or yesterday’s USSR; Trump’s party will probably lose a House, maybe 2; and unlike Stalin, IIUC, the US made no treaty with the USSR to carve up a neighbouring country.
    
    I’d say the US is part democracy, part plutocracy, and part kakistocracy, but fascist? not really.
    
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