Kim Jong Un is batshit crazy, but he does know the extent of his power. His power doesn’t reach much further than North Korea itself, and if he tries anything that might piss off China, he backs off. Trump has no such restrictions, he can do whatever the hell he wants, and does.
The general principle in international relations for the past 100 years is that if you kill your own people, nobody really gives a shit. If you start killing other people, well then that’s when other countries start taking notice.
N. Korea has 3 years to make a comedy about 2 journalist traveling to the USA to interview the President
Seriously though, the way everyone is now telling Trump what a great leader he is and praising his every action is very much like such a charicature of a leader of a totalitarian regime. The charicature we used to make fun of leaders like Kim.
It’s ominous to see this happen with “the leader of the free world”.
ITT: western chauvanism
Meaningless buzzword
Give him the same wealth and military power as Trump has, then he will end the world…
No need. Trump’s got it covered.
he was never as crazy as putin, or trump. Kim held on a leash by CHINA, XI.
Putin was and is not crazy, do not make this mistake. Vile, murderous, clinging to power, corrupt, immoral - all yes. Bit he is very rational in his own way. So is Kim, I think, but I do lack info here.
Trump, on the other hand, does look properly crazy now. And that is my last hope for this world, that he finally shows it in a clinical way and americans wake up before this is all over for us.
Vile, murderous, clinging to power, corrupt, immoral - all yes. Bit he is very rational in his own way.
There’s a word to describe all this, it’s evil.
Yes. But not crazy.
In a way he’s sort of like westboro baptist church in the states. Once universally despised now outdone by more crazy and sort of forgotten about
I’m from Topeka, home of Westboro. One year, the protested my high school band concert
You are so right. Even in my home town, they are a small nuisance compared Trump. Part of that has to do with the patriarch of the cult dying in 2014, but part of it is absolutely because Trump is crazier and more nonsensical than they are. And that’s saying something.
Hello, neighbor to the south. I remember Kevin Smith managed to get one of Shirley’s daughters out of the cult and I think the other daughter left as well
(°▽°)/ Howdy!
Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper did leave in 2012. Megan I has taken on a more prominent role in activism since leaving.
I don’t know if Kevin Smith is the reason she left, but they did frequently debate on Twitter while she was still with the church. He made a movie, Red State (2011) which upset the church so they got into it a lot online and when he toured the area.
After she left the church, he was very supportive of it. I know he interviewed on a podcast a few times, but I haven’t heard those.
Didn’t Fred try to admit that he was wrong in doing all the shit that he did on his deathbed trying to get right with God ? whatever fuck that pussy. Caused untold suffering to how many fucking people and then he wants to fucking apologize on his dead bed what a fucking coward.
I have never heard rumors of him repenting in anyway. I think it’s safe to say, he’s burning in hell if you believe in that.
Memories hazy but if memory serves the family clan sort of split in half because of him doing that. Shirley is still doing it. But I know Kevin for sure got one her kids out and I think even helped her financially with a safe place to stay. Yea red state is a good flick.
Ya Shirley is a fucking psychopath. She has been the most vocal one of them all for a long time.
There’s a lot of stuff they do that most people don’t even know about.
Back when schools still used fax machines, they would send real heinous stuff pretty much every day. They were harassing children.
They were always protesting somewhere in Topeka. As a kid, my parents always told us not to look at them.
I don’t hear much about them now, I don’t live there anymore but I have a lot of family there. I don’t even see WBC out protesting when I visit.
I really hope someone in thigh-high striped socks takes one for the team and makes out with someone in front of the Westboro protesters in Kansas. I also really hope someone builds a Unitarian Universalist church near the site of the Westboro church.
Anything that could have been legally done to troll and harass them has already been done through the years. There used to be a sub dedicated to trolling them on reddit way back in the day. Back when reddit was used for good and not supporting fascists
Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters troll them every time that band plays Kansas City.
The wbc has seen every funny, clever, disgusting, and even abhorrent trolling attempt you could possibly imagine. Someone literally bought the house across the street from them years ago and painted it in the colors of the pride flag. Ultimately the church/family is run by lawyers so they would also catalog the more troubling stuff like death threats too. Before the modern era culture wars they were a group that essentially everyone hated. They’re a hardcore Baptist denomination preaching hate so that alienates your leftists and libs, generally, and they took the attitude of “dead soldiers are gods punishment for America allowing lgbt stuff, 9/11 was a gift from god, etc” which alienated the overwhelming majority of the conservative crowd too so they got hate from every angle.
The proper thing to do is continue to let them fade into obscurity. The best thing that ever happened to them was the lawsuits about freedom of speech and the continued media coverage related to their ridiculous messaging. They weren’t stupid either; they recognized 99.99% of the people watching them on cnn or whatever would write them off as extremist kooks. But if 10 million people watch that interview? That 0.01% leave 1,000 potential new members to the flock, with those numbers. And this is where the growth was seen: peak membership was in the era preceding Phelps death, and its waned since. The brainwashed family members are primarily what you see in the time preceding and after (though not exclusively, some people who joined stayed and some family have broken free).
As always, the best way to deal with a troll is ignoring and certainly not giving said troll media exposure to an audience of millions to help them recruit.
He hasn’t been the craziest one for almost four years now.
Dude is looking much more reasonable than all the American allies that don’t have nukes.
The western world having a surprised Pikachu face when the American empire starts treating them like it does the entire global South.
Please, please realize that the actions America is taking are (1) not because of Trump alone. He is the leader that enacts the interest of its wealthy ruling class. (2) This is not new. This has been what the US has done for decades. The only thing that is new is who its being done to.
You (your nations leaders) all watched and “felt bad” as it enabled a genocide in Gaza. Some even condemning it while continuing to arm Israel as not to upset America. This cannot be understated. This gave America the confidence to do what it is doing now. Gaza was a testing ground.
Now, that empire asks you to bend the knee and remove the illusion of self sovereignty.
Korean people, Vietnamese people, Iraqi people, etc. Might want to read some of the struggles against empire from their perspective. Because that’s what is happening now. You can still think “that won’t happen to us”. Well, you might want to prepare for that.
Because “the 65%” of normal citizen in the US don’t want any of this either but they are just as inactive as you are. Your resistance gives us in the US more power to resist as well. We need to realize that this not a fight between nations and leaders. But a fight against the people of the world. Our blind eye towards Gaza and other crimes has given the green light for it to be done to us.
We are not fighting against nations. We are fighting against the rulers of wealth. We are sitting in the fascist imperial core being subject to SS troops going door to door. You (in the rest of the west) will see material conditions decline as your politicians are pressured by their own wealthy ruling class to give in to the empires demands. You cannot let that happen. America needs to be choked. It needs to be sanctioned and boycott and if necessary fought against. Do not let your politicians give in; and you cannot afford to continue to be inactive.
I’m literally Iraqi. You’re talking out of your ass here
Yeah exactly its a leapords ate my face situation, after decades of killing brown in the middle east, and korean/vietnamese and latin american populations, the europeans are now acting surprised that they are next, recently when trump leaked a text between him and macron and macron saying how they are “inline with syria and iran but need to talk about greenland”, we saw the attitude of the “leaders” in real time, they want to kill and murder brown people for resources and dominance but think the american empire and the orange man will spare their own people, well it seems its not working out now is it
This is an apt representation of the situation
Well said
Totally underrated comment.
Genuinely can’t tell if that’s real or an edit lmao
You can’t tell if Trump is dropping in on a bowl in the DMZ on the Korean border? Lmao I love that.
More like I wouldn’t put it past him to have posed for this pic. I don’t think he’s actually skateboarding lol
Gods damn I’d pay good money to see him give it a go
Best buds🤗
They are awfully close, though. Both in scale of insanity and in affection for each other.
Trump is jealous that he still has to poop, unlike Glorious Leader Kim Jong.
Too true to be funny ;)
Never was.
Cringe
Idk man, I’m no fan of the whole Kim cult of personality thing. But anyone with a cursory understanding of modern Korean history could see that the foreign policy actions of the DPRK are largely quite rational, if also informed by the trauma of the Korean war.
The United States dropped so many bombs that Koreans took to living in caves. American pilots complained that there simply wasn’t anything left to bomb.
I think what’s actually cringe is sitting on your computer and being a smug prick about it
What a load of steaming bullshit lmao
Nothing about the current North Korean regime or the Kim dynasty is in any way, shape, or form logical, rational, or justified. The Kims are unhinged tyrants who have fucked over their entire country to give themselves power.
The very notion that war “trauma” leads to totalitarian regimes like this is nonsense made up by Marxists to justify the existence of this indefensible regime. There have been soooooooo many countries that went through war since WWII and were devastated by it, and none turned out like this.
It’s one thing to say that the history of the DPRK is unfortunate and that whatever happened shouldn’t have, it’s also another to say that whatever their handling of the situation, no matter how poor, corrupt or unhumanitarian is therefore justified.
Perhaps not justified, universally, but I’m not going to make a sweeping generalization one way or another. Reliable information about internal DPRK dynamics is difficult to come by anyway, when you have to sift through defecors paid by South Korea to make their accounts more shocking, and made up nonsense about haircuts
For the things we do have solid evidence for, namely DPRK foreign policy, You have to take these things on a case by case basis, and place them in their proper historical and political context.
Going around and calling the DPRK a crazy rogue states is at best ignorant of the contributing factors, and at worst actively racist and orientalist.
Trump le bad
