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[Video] Old man speaks up at town hall (i.imgur.com)

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[–] TheMadChatter 24 points 6 days ago

Masterful trolling here lmfao

[+] [email protected] -41 points 6 days ago (3 children)

so like, should we do something about north korea? They have a lot of human rights abuses?

Just trying to be complete here, since the meme here is that they're brown people we don't have to care about them.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

yes, you can start by not funding north korea. oh look, mission accomplished! now do Israel, you disingenuous ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

funding them would only cause more human rights abuse though wouldn't it?

That's the whole argument that north korea uses. Their population will starve and famine if nobody gives them aid money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

is this AI, what the hell are you even arguing right now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

u wish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I'll take that as a yes

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There probably a little more fire for this because the USA is directly responsible for the genocide. As a matter of fact if we did nothing the world would be a better place, and even better if we did something else.

I don’t recall the human rights abuses in North Korea being a direct result of us intervention.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

that's pretty much a history of the world though.

Everything happens because someone somewhere did something, and sometimes it's bad, sometimes it's good. The US does have a lot of questionable involvement in other countries historically, but so does every other large country, like china, and russia. So i'm not sure how unique that is.

I mean hell, look at japanese history during the second world war.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just because others do something evil, it does not absolve you of your sins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

evidently not, but then again, if there was no sin in the world, sin couldn't possibly exist could it? There would be no bad, or good, only things. But it does exist, so evidently, people must be doing it.

Seems like it must be a constant of life. Especially when you look at other species of animals. Morality and ethics is an arbitrarily defined human scope. It's nothing more, nothing less.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I don’t recall the human rights abuses in North Korea being a direct result of us intervention.

I wouldn't say that the US had nothing to do with it, though. The Korean Civil War was brutal for the south, but it was even more so for the north.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

the US was involved but i think strictly in support of the south korean side?

From what i can remember it was basically japan that ended up putting korea into the position where was to form north korea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was talking about the US leveling 95% of the buildings in what is now the DPRK. That put the North at a pretty big disadvantage economically, and hard economic times often lead to despots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

this would've been due to the japanese invasion though right?

Even then, still doesnt excuse human rights violations, to the level that NK does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I never said it excused them, but it does to some degree explain them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

i mean yeah, but if we're going to root cause, it would necessarily be japan im certain. They were the ones invading china/korea at the time. The US wasn't even involved until the end of the war.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Probably should stop providing them the means to abuse human rights

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

they abuse human rights whether or not people give them money.

This has been demonstrated since the beginning of north korea. Giving them western money might prevent them from spending western money on shit like nukes. But they will still abuse human rights.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Yes and one of America's main things we're protesting against wrt Israel is that we're funding their crimes against humanity

[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 week ago

That dude is a bad ass

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He had 'em in the first half

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago (23 children)

This is why it's really important for white, cis men to be allies.

If you are a white, cis man and you are inspired by this man, please speak up. Those of us that are minorities can only push the boulder so far and we need voices that Republican (and unfortunately some Democrat) politicians will hear.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mad Respect for this man.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I feel like a good portion of the audience was still confused at the end. And you know exactly which portion

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