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theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months agoIn North Korea, the state security forces can just grab you and lock you up for no reason, beating you up, taking your wallet as civil forfeiture, making you lose your job, and dropping you off miles from home with no transportation.
Good thing that could never happen in the US!
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 months ago
I don't think that's the kind of thing people talk about when they say North Korea is oppressive
Do you know what happens to you in North Korea the day after you attend a protest against the government's policies? Because it definitely isn't getting dropped off and having to find your own way back home.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think you missed the point. Yeah, North Korea is significantly worse.
But that’s not the point, the point is that emulating any part of their police state behavior is unacceptable.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 months ago
If the comment had said "In North Korea, the state security force can just puts you in a prison camp for years for way way less than these protestors did, and it's a bad thing that we're emulating 5% of their police state behavior, because that's still too much," then sure. I would have written a different thing in reply, if they had said that.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That was more less the implicit part, through their sacrasm.