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by ben_w 2054 days ago
My point is NK is a lot worse, not “a little bit”.
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notreallytrue 2054 days ago
As any other country did something similar to what US did?

Can you name one which isn't already bad?

Like, I don't know, Spain? Germany? Argentina? South Africa?

The greatest democracy and country in the World shouldn't even be in the same business of North Korea style

And yet...

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ben_w 2054 days ago
There’s plenty of stuff America does wrong, present tense and past, without needing to make hyperbolic comparisons to NK.
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notreallytrue 2054 days ago
It's not hyperbolic

How many countries NK invaded?

How many coup d'état that established long and painful military dictatorships around the World it supported and/or financed?

At least nobody calls NK the greatest democracy and country in the world or the land of the free...

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ben_w 2054 days ago
On the other hand, how many styles of haircut are you legally allowed in the USA? Can you leave if you want to? Can you criticise the government without you and your family being shot?

Never mind Apples and Oranges, you’re comparing a rabid kitten (NK: you don’t want to be a cell inside it, but the animal is containable) with a healthy chimpanzee in the jungle you’re walking though (USA: violent and acts like it owns the place, so being one of its cells is safer than being a cell in many of the things around it).

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romanoderoma 2053 days ago
Good answer, but hyronically in USA you have 6 chances in 100 thousands to be murdered, in NK it's 6 in a million.

Looks like the chimpanzee cells are not safer after all.

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ben_w 2053 days ago
What’s your source? Wikipedia puts their intentional homicide rates at 4.96 and 4.40 per 100k respectively.
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