The "I can't play a new game until I finish my current game unless I plan on never picking it up again" rule I made for myself has pushed me to clear dozens of games from my backlog, but wow do longer games end up feeling like a chore towards the end. It feels like I may need to adjust my rule a bit to account for length without losing momentum.
Yes, western-centric sources indeed over-represent real problems in the DPRK and under-represent their achievements. Again, they seem to be doing about as well as Cuba, maybe a bit better, and considering the brutal sanctions on each that's quite the feat.
Your "common knowledge" is just the western viewpoint that clings to the Arduous March and stories, both real and fake, of defectors raised during that era.
Plus, making a joke about a country having food insecurity, regardless of validity, is monstrous behavior. Even if you were correct, you'd still be a shitty person for that alone.
People eat in the DPRK, the Arduous March was 3 decades ago. It's similar to Cuba, or even better now due to having trading partners on its door in Russia and China.
It was nice to read a bit on neopronouns here, all in all a great chapter. I do want to say that many people do use "it" as a pronoun, though, so "it" is just another option, though historically it has of course been wielded as Les describes.
The portraits were great, I especially loved the idea that we are all transitioning all the time in different ways. The suffocation of false binaries when the world is abundant with myriad shades between any two poles is a product of liberalism in many ways.
No, the world would be better off. The US Empire is the millitaristic power destorying peoples lives around the world, not China of all countries, not Russia either. The death toll from the US Empire is absolutely towering over every other country in existence right now.
This is wrong. From beginning to end. The US Empire is a blight on the world, it functions through brutal extraction of wealth in the Global South. The US Empire was not moving in a positive direction, tell that to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Cuba, Chile, everyone the US has terrorized for profit. The "aid" provided by the US comes with clauses requiring total capitulation to US capital, the US isn't ending starvation, it creates reliance on US foodstuffs to hyper-exploit the global south.
Trump is not unique. Trump is not a special calamity. Trump is "special" in that he doesn't play coy or try to hide the way the US Empire acts, he just says it and brags about it.
Trump both represents the US Empire and the worst people on the planet, because its the same. The world wants the US Empire to finally go the way of Rome and collapse. I am a US citizen, it's the historic task of the US working class to finally end this genocidal settler-colony so that a more just Socialist society can take its place.
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Yep, I never seem to be able to pick long games back up.