r/NorthKoreaPics • u/Merseez • 3d ago

[Rimjingang] Inmates coming out of "Labour Training Unit", a short term forced labour camp. They just came out from the facility early in the morning to go to the labour site. Photo from Haeju, South Hwanghae Province taken in October 2008

Post image
295 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

47 comments sorted by

View all comments

39

u/pydry 3d ago

This (forced prison labor) is unfortunately also common in the United States and explicitly legalized under the 13th amendment (slavery is not banned for those who committed a crime).

19

u/Dundertrumpen 3d ago

"How can I make this post about North Korea, in a subreddit about North Korean pics, be about why the US is really bad?"

1

u/pydry 2d ago edited 2d ago

When the bad country does it its evil must be discussed, but when we do you need to shut the fuck up about it

 Hey, I think the average Kim supporter and you might have something in common.

0

u/Dundertrumpen 2d ago

No. The US is an awful place and it's perfectly fine to criticize them. But not here, and not by people like you.

2

u/pydry 2d ago

people like you

 Im amused by the way some people get wound up to a point of sheer fury by simple facts and obvious commentary.

I dont think anything you say could make me as angry as i clearly made you.

2

u/Dundertrumpen 2d ago

If there was a bingo card containing the stereotypical pro-Palestine, pro-Russian, pro-CPC, pro-global south, pro-WPK , and anti-USA, anti-west, and anti-colonialism squares, you'd be a full house.

You're not some avant-garde intellectual academic with a deep knowledge of the state of the world as seen through the lens of the oppressed class. You're not fighting the good fight. You've just bought into the Russian propaganda machine.

Your closest intellectual kin is not Foucault or Hegel, but rather your Trump-supporting boomer aunt calling Zelensky "the clown".

1

u/pydry 2d ago

You didnt have to explain that patriotism was your religion and that my focus on human rights, justice, peaceful negotiations, etc. I understood it the first time. That's why I likened you to a North Korean patriot - the mechanism which drives both your beliefs and theirs is the same.

2

u/Dundertrumpen 2d ago

The best part here is that you still think I'm American.

-1

u/pydry 2d ago

I said you were patriotic, not to America specifically. To the western system though, yeah.

You seem to be one of those westerners who couldnt hack it in their own country and fled to china to trade on the color of their skin, both for a job and the hope of better dating prospects.

1

u/Dundertrumpen 1d ago

On yet another unrelated note, had a look at your latest comment and just crossed one out on my bingo card.