• @tal@lemmy.today
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    26 days ago

    I don’t think that I’d call this “North Korea”. China isn’t even North Korea, and China’s a one party state that outright prohibits parties from existing that oppose the ruling party.

    There’s a spectrum of political repression, and North Korea is pretty far down it.

    • @slickgoat@lemmy.world
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      926 days ago

      I take your point, but I wouldn’t categorise NK as being pretty far down the road in terms of political repression.

      Try and oppose the Kim’s and see how long you continue breathing.

      • RubberDuck
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        726 days ago

        Don’t they also arrest your close circle and put them in an internment camp? You know to make sure your ideas did not leak out.

      • @tal@lemmy.today
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        126 days ago

        looks confused

        I wasn’t saying that North Korea is less politically-repressive than China.

        • @slickgoat@lemmy.world
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          126 days ago

          To be fair, you introduced China into the subject, not us.

          I agree, tho. Both are repressive, so is Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and a whole bunch of others.