https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1rwp75l/do_dprk_elections_mean_anything/

I am seeing all these posts about Kim-Jong Un winning by 99.93%. Everybody online is just shouting about people getting killed if they don’t vote for him and whatever but you can only believe so much from western media. How much of a reality is this stuff? Are these like “elections” and people are made to vote a certain way or is there any validity to these elections.

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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    9 days ago

    I highly doubt any of it is actually real. I doubt if there’s even more than 1 candidate.

    North Korea imprisons babies. It’s a brutal dictatorship. This ‘election’ is just to give the whiff of being legitimate, but everyone can see through the facade.

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        9 days ago

        Yep, and the correct response to those facts is both systems need to be changed. Not “my system is perfect, kill the unbeliever!”

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          9 days ago

          I mean, may I remind you who tried to kill who? You realize they’re like that because they sustained a brutal invasion, yes?

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            9 days ago

            Bad excuse. It’s not counting for Israel and it’s Holocaust survivors and neither is it working for North Korea.

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              9 days ago

              How is it remotely related. Israelis are attacking arabs, who did nothing to them. North korean are defending themselves against americans, who invaded their country and would still do it if they show any weakness.

              Personally I wish europe would go the way of north korea. I don’t want the pedophile in chief to blow up our schoolgirls