Kate Wilson won a legal battle against the Metropolitan Police after discovering her long-term boyfriend was an undercover officer

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    25 days ago

    I understand what you’re saying. To be fair, my anchor point is oppressive socialist regimes writ large circa 1944-1990. Kim Il Sung predated Enver Hoxha in terms of models and tactics. Hoxha’s governance style changed over about a decade or two to distance Albania from Yugoslavia and the USSR and emulate North Korea.

    By no means do I think it’s an “Asian” thing. Honestly, that’s a silly premise when I’m talking about a single country of 26 million out of 4.7 billion people. NK might barely round up to 1% of the population of Asia, so how is that exactly painting the whole continent? But between Hoxha-era Albania and North Korea, North Korea still exists in largely the same state. So it’s easier to reference as a standard right now.

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      24 days ago

      You could just say “I’m a white supremacist”, that would save us a lot of time.

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        24 days ago

        oh fuck off, i was with you until this point. yea I dont like seeing my country being used as the benchmark for when the west does shitty things. but OP gave a pretty measured response to you guys frankly blowing it out of proportion, and was thoughtful, patient, and non defensive.

        and then you reply like a fucking twelve year old, obviously not having read any of it. go back to hexbear with the other juveniles.

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          10 days ago

          I agree that I think it’s silly to draw everything back to “Orientalism”.

          I would just say that North Korea and Enver Hoxha were/are based and good, actually.