SpookyBogMonster
@SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
- Comment on You know this is gonna happen. 1 week ago:
Oof, that’s an unfortunate typo. You can thank my phone’s autocorrect for that one 😮💨
- Comment on You know this is gonna happen. 1 week ago:
I mean, period people can be conventionally attractive, and also do awful things. Equating beauty with goodness and ugliness with evil is some Disney movie morality.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Again, thought terminating cliche. why do you believe that to be the case? Have you read its constitution? Engaged in good faith with Conflicting defector accounts? Looked at past electoral data? Or Studied the country’s history to conclude why North Korean politics has taken the shape that it has?
Or, have you simply swallowed an orientalized view of a country on the other side of the world, without really questioning it?
Let’s address the elephant in the room here. You and I probably agree that the cult of personality around the Kim family in the DPRK is not conducive to a healthy political culture,and I would consider it a failure within the DPRK’s political project. I don’t think there’s anything controversial about that.
Why is there a cult of personality to begin with? If we look at charts of electoral results immediately preceding and following the Korean War, we see North Korea go from an incredibly vibrant, multi party, Socialist Republic, to a system where the Workers Party heavily dominates the legislative process. So this centralization in North Korean politics has a clear material origin.
But did you know that, in contrast to this centralization, the Kims have all held different positions in government? Did you know that those positions, on paper at least, get progressively more diffuse and less centralized as time has gone on?
Those facts alone don’t tell us everything about the DPRK’s politics. But it does lead us to consider why these two concurrent trends, the cult of personality and the diffusal of power, have are happening. Perhaps it points to factional divisions.
What I’m getting at is not that China, or the DPRK, or any other country on earth for that matter, is not some secret, perfect, democratic utopia. But that these places have political cultures and institutions that arise from history, and we can analyze them to see how and why they work (or sometimes don’t work). And that making sweeping generalizations based on aesthetic vibes isn’t helpful. We have to strive to actually understand the world if we want to meaningfully discuss it
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Lmao
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
I said there are elections. People go vote for their representatives. Whether that electoral process is effective, or those representatives truly representative of their constituents is a different question which we lack good information on. This isn’t hard to grasp
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
You give enough of a fuck to post this lame-ass comment
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
North Korea has a nominally more direct electoral system than China, though it’s equivalent to the Chinese President is the President of the State Affairs Commission, which Kim Jong-Un holds.
These are head of state positions which, while influential, are more insulated from the day-to-day operations of governance.
That said, we have a much better window into what Chinese political culture is like, as well as the robustness of its institutions, as compared to the DPRK. So it’s more difficult to say, one way or the other, what the DPRK’s politics are truly like.
That said, these thought terminating cliche’s don’t help you or anyone else. Its worthwhile to learn how these systems work.
Also, Indirect elections aren’t inherently bad. The prime minister of the UK is also indirectly elected, but that fact alone tells us very little about the UK’s political culture, institutional responsiveness to the popular will, or how able institutions of governance are able to weather crises
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
He definitely is elected, just not directly. The Chinese President is elected by The National People’s Congress. The Presidium, which is the body that presides over the NPC when the full body Is not in session, elects one or more candidates, and then the whole NPC deliberates and votes
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Buddy, that wasn’t a genuine response… I’m making fun of you
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Mashallah, the yanks are already cooked
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Then tell us how you think it’s used instead of saying “no” over and over like a toddler
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
No u
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Xi is not directly elected
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
Suck my girldick fuckwad, lmao
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
to fight like Pokémon
HEXBEAR! I CHOOSE YOU!
USE PIGPOOPBALLS!!!
- Comment on Oh. 2 weeks ago:
Wrong: the isolation also triggers me
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 2 weeks ago:
Four group chats and the best you’ve got is some Facebook boomer shit??
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 2 weeks ago:
I mean, they represent physical labor, in the sense that one physically uses a hammer and a sickle as tools. But the reason communists pair those symbols together is because they represent the class alliance of industrial workers, and rural peasants.
This is a repost of bad conservative Onion ripoff, The Babylon Bee, though. So I expect only the most shallow, baby-brained, “jokes” your average chud could muster
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 2 weeks ago:
Post hog, or log off, chud
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 2 weeks ago:
Literally just a shitty Babylon Bee repost. LemmyShitPosts is a Nazi bar
- Comment on Finally, we have the blueprints! 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure a friend of mine, in a tgirl polycule, lives in this house. In Portland, of course
- Comment on Borders 5 weeks ago:
They just haven’t pissed into the ocean enough smh
- Comment on Borders 5 weeks ago:
Except that it literally does???
- Comment on Borders 5 weeks ago:
The modern notion of nation States, with clearly defined borders, with mechanisms of violence to enforce those borders, lb arose around the 17th century.
Wolves don’t build border walls, have customs checkpoints, or leave refugees to drown in the Mediterranean.
This isn’t a “science meme”, it’s a falacious attempt to cloak reactionary rhetoric in the garb of scientific rigor.
- Comment on nice weather we're having 5 weeks ago:
Posts that would’ve have done numbers on an image board in 2004
- Comment on Post title lol 1 month ago:
But consider:
Emojis have no soul, and will never see the light of Heaven
Text based emoticons, meanwhile :) :( :3 :o Are God’s chosen tone indicator, animated with the breath of life
- Comment on Who?¿ 1 month ago:
2 Manly P. Hall – known for writings on esoteric philosophy.
That picture is actually of Gerald Gardner, the guy who founded (kind of? Its complicated) the religion of Wicca.
To answer the question though, white Jesus easily has the most toxic fan club, by sheer volume of followers.
Anton LaVey was an edgy fuck though, so he probably gets 2nd place for just being kinda cringe ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Sneacking a meme in before .world updates 1 month ago:
Log off and come suck my gock, fuckwad lmao
- Comment on Sneacking a meme in before .world updates 1 month ago:
Get the ever living fuck off Lemmy, we don’t want misogynistic dipshits like you
- Comment on They cannot see the things that will hurt them 1 month ago:
I don’t really want to argue with a fellow leftist here while there are liberals attacking us all over the place
Me, an ML, defending my anarchist comrades from the liberals o7
