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Lemmitors having a normal one about the DPRK
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No, you racist dog, nobody thinks the DPRK or any other country is perfect (cue Moleman), but if you think Kim Jong Un is feeding teenagers to starving dogs for wearing the wrong haircut you're definitely a racist and that's where like 95% of the west including everyone in that thread is at.
Despite professing a fetish for nuance, they all suddenly pretend to be dumb as dogshit when describing the positions of people to the left of them, demonstrating the very inability to grasp nuance that they ascribe to their political opponents, or anyone who refuses to see the nuance in supporting genocidal fascists. They project their mindless shallow nationalism, full of platitudes and willful blindness, onto people who actually know what they're talking about. They can't imagine that the cartoonish image they have of the rest of the world is wrong, so they double down on assuming that we see what they see, and just love it. "The monstrous caricature in my head is real, and you worship it."
You can see this with chuds of all stripes. It's not that I've been lied to about the 2020 uprisings, they really did burn all those cities to the ground, and those looney leftists love it!. The world is your oyster when your epistemological starting point is "I'm obviously already right and know everything I need to know on this subject, so anyone trying to learn more about it is actually being brainwashed by The Enemy."
Like the fundamentalists who will never not be convinced that atheists worship the devil the same way they worship their god. They, the best and smartest people on Earth, cannot imagine a worldview devoid of uncritical worship, so anyone who claims to have one must be deceived, a deceiver, or both.
Precisely, but that's the strawman that people conjure up about Hexbear. We must all worship at the altar of Russia, China, Cuba and NK and they are literally infallible and can't possibly make a single bad move.
Thinking that we might have nuanced opinions on these countries, and critically analyse information to realise they're not the fucking otherworldly demons that western propaganda paints them as, takes brainpower they don't seem to spare.