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[–] BlancoCanyon ago 

I don't believe DPRNK is communist or that it's as horrible there as the news lets on, people that have gone there say it's nice...

lol

It's not communist, it's a theocracy. If you want to go to NK, you can just go, or be kidnapped. If you want to leave, you must defect.

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[–] Rainy-Day-Dream [S] ago 

not all societies need to be free and open and everything, I support American principals and values of course but in America. The japs for example did pretty well under a military dictatorship

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[–] FlashVirus ago 

The idea that America is some great land of free speech where we all share principles and dialogue with one another is pure mythology. America has a long history of rejecting 'Merikan valoos' when push came to shove. Loyalists were chased out of the colonies and their press buildings were burned to the ground. Dissidents during the Civil War were rounded up and thrown into jail and similar anti-dissident behavior reared its head again during WW1 with Socialists being imprisoned. As one Monarchist intellectual I know of calls it, "The illusion of inclusion. As long as people think they're apart of the system in some small, small, small way then they won't riot and participate in seditious acts.

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[–] BlancoCanyon ago 

I guess it depends on how you measure success.