Huh, crazy! Can't imagine why!

Please stop using Imgur because UK folks can't see images from it

VPNs don't help, I've tried. They must have a block list.

Sorry, lemdro.id image upload is having issues so I just defaulted to using imgur
I have now updated the post to use a different image host
- Many thanks 🙂‍↕️
What do you recommend? Every other image host I've used was either clunky as hell or disappears. I hate Imgur.
- On Lemmy you can just upload directly to it, at least that's what I do. Don't know for the rest of the internet.
- http://epvpimg.com/
  Been using this for a decade almost, but of course that's no guarantee it won't disappear
Or. Complain to your government. This is one time i'm on the imgur side of it.
They can't help that your government is stupid. Why should they then be banned from being used?
Please, continue using imgur because UK folks can't see images from it
/j
Brazilians too.

And now we wait
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"Leftists" only in the sense that they want the boot to be on the other foot. Authoritarians are all the same.

That's odd because some people like dictatorships

No they don't. They like an authoritarian strong man on the throne telling them how to live their lives
They don't like it when you point out they're describing a dictatorship

Meanwhile if you criticize Genocidesmany and it's assistance in Pissrael's genocide:

NK is a theocracy, right?

It's kind of it's own category. I mean, they're basically forced to worship the supreme leader, but I don't think that's a defining aspect
It's more a totalitarian state. Everything from what job you'll do for the rest of your life to how you cheer is given to you by the government.
It has the trappings of religion, but do people really believe that? The way they talk about it is like "the state tells us Kim was born in a flash of light on the top of a mountain", they don't engage with the talking points, they repeat them exactly
- Fun fact, the supreme leader has so far always been dead, the title only having been given to Sung and Jong upon their deaths, yet the title is officially the leader of the party, state, and army.
  Making it the world’s only Necrocracy (rule by the dead)
"Nah bro, it's a Democracy. It's called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea bro." Yeah, and Nazi stood for National Socialists.
- Yeah, and Nazi stood for National Socialists.
  A lot of the new Nazis in Germany (AfD) actually believe this btw.
- DPRK is so democratic, they don’t even need to hold elections, they already know that the people want someone from the Kim family to be their glorious leader
A Necrocracy if we want to be pedantic. As the highest title in government 최고령도자 (literally translating as “supreme leader” or “the best/most leader”, but can be taken to mean something like “the leader who is in the highest position”), officially it is in charge of the party, state, and millitary, and so far been only given to former leaders upon their deaths. Meaning that at any given time, the highest leadership position is held by someone who is dead, making it a Necrocracy, rule by the dead.
A theocracy would imply some form of church like structure deciding policy, laws, and running the state, maybe you could argue the party is a sort of church, but the party apparatus is not appointing the leader, nor does it set policy. The party, state, and army in North Korea serve at the behest of the hereditary leaders, so practically it’s more of a monarchy.

Probably because it's blocked here by law haha.

What happens on .world when you call Ukraine a dictatorship?

As the other commenter responded, you’ll be told you’re wrong. Because you are. Presumably you’re referring to the fact that Ukraine hasn’t had an election, despite Zelenskyy’s term being over?
War. It’s war. The answer is because they’re at war. Martial law has been declared, a state of emergency, and their constitution suspends elections during such a time. If they want to keep drafting soldiers in order to fight against the war of conquest declared on them by Russia, then this cannot change.
Putin could end Zelenskyy’s term right now if he simply chose to end the war. Anyone who believes the situation is so simple as “Ukraine is a dictatorship” is not only wrong, but dangerously wrong, and likely dangerously stupid to boot.
- At least we will only know once the conditions for martial law aren't current anymore. But as you've pointed out, the war would need to end for that to be the case.
  Currently we are assuming that Zelenskyy will give up power, if the war ends, or will be forced to. Until that happens Ukraine isn't a Dictatorship.
- Ok, now apply that beautiful logic of yours to North Korea.
  North Korea was bombed to the stone age in 1955 by the glorious and democratic USA (without consulting its people), to the point that 15% of North Koreans were murdered and 90% of all buildings were leveled. Afterwards, the most thorough and long-lasting economic blockade in history was imposed by the USA, which left the economy in shambles and made it very hard for the country to recover. It was recovering when, in 1991, its greatest commercial partner during blockade, the USSR, was dissolved, which left food insecurity in a country that wasnt allowed to import grain and whose cold climate and mountainous geography make agriculture quite complicated. For reference, a recent study showed that US economic blockades murder 500.000 people a year, quite a bit more than death rates from war in Ukraine.
  US could end the criminal blockade of North Korea right now if he simply chose to, but no, the US doesn't want to stop murdering people through economic violence. As the Office of the Historian of the USA holds in its database:
  every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.
  Hmmm, I wonder why they dont celebrate free elections in such critical conditions...
you get called out for being wrong, although your instance already gives that away
- Oh wow. Now that is a red flag of a domain name if I ever saw one.
  I think it has more red flags than the front lawn of the Canadian parliament.
Wow you're so oppressed you poor snowflake
- I mean my country was literally turned into an unescapable prison where people are kidnapped off the streets, beaten, and sent into the meat grinder (and often tortured as well there), but don't worry, I already learnt from .world fascists that it is ok and I should not complain about it.
  Hopefully Russia will fully liberate it one day 🤞