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What's the worst wedding you've ever saw?
At the height of the Colin Kaepernick nonsense, my cousin got married to a cop.
So the reception is going normally when everyone is asked to stand and they started playing the National fucking Anthem. Literally everyone was surprised and taken aback by this, but most complied and faced the flag.
My Very Conservative Uncle, however, was busy having a conversation with me. Next to my chair. On one knee. During the anthem.
To his credit, nobody laughed harder about it than he did. “Of course I’m the guy taking a knee during the anthem!” He also was blocking me in and gave me the perfect excuse to do what I’d planned to anyway and remain seated because what the fuck? Are we in North Korea and need to tribute Glorious Leader at every event?
That was probably one of the last family functions I’ve been to, come to think of it.
Replying to @DjangoFett@lemmy.zip
Most American thing ever: What are we, a bunch of Asians?!
Replying to @Impenetrouble2@hexbear.net
Touché, but I was going for the most overtly despotic nation I am aware of, and I don’t think its unfair to call that regime despotic.
Replying to @DjangoFett@lemmy.zip
You don’t know anything about the DPRK that the CIA hasn’t told you.
You know absolutely nothing about how they were massacred, then held under siege by the West for 70 years.
Replying to @rentasintorn@lemmygrad.ml
You know what’s way better than berating ignorance?
Educating it. Especially when it was genuinely innocent instead of willfully malicious.
Assuming I’m an idiot because of where I’m from makes you no better than the majority of those in my country you so clearly spurn. Be better than a typical American, yeah?
Replying to @DjangoFett@lemmy.zip
You can’t receive education if you don’t accept your own ignorance. Do you accept your ignorance about the DPRK?
You are no different than an Amerikkkan if you lap from the same propaganda fountain.
Replying to @rentasintorn@lemmygrad.ml
My reply prior to this one did admit it. Get off your high horse you arrogant fuck.
Replying to @DjangoFett@lemmy.zip
No you didn’t. You may have implied it, but you didn’t directly admit it (or apologize for your ignorant comments).
For someone who was so focused on being treated kindly, you’ve been very unkind. You understand that you can’t learn with this attitude, right?
Replying to @rentasintorn@lemmygrad.ml
A) I didn’t come out sideways at a stranger on the internet.
B) I absolutely admitted genuine innocent ignorance. You then doubled down on “Amerikkans suck lol” so, uh, no.
Troll less, love more, and leave me the fuck alone.
Replying to @DjangoFett@lemmy.zip
I totally misread your “be better than a typical American” as being from a non-American trying to take some moral high ground, or whatever.
I’m not trolling, I get pretty upset at the way the DPRK is popularly considered in the U$, but if you’re legitimately able to adjust your view, then I’m not upset with you.
Replying to @rentasintorn@lemmygrad.ml
Give me actual information instead of anger and I am more than happy to engage in discourse. Everyone is anonymous here. My country of birth doesn’t define who I am any more than yours does you.
Replying to @DjangoFett@lemmy.zip
I kind of think being American does define us, if we let it. Many Americans are happy being “non-political” while benefiting (if only a little) from a massive monstrous war machine. I’m American, and I’m not stopping that machine either, so there’s that.
You are probably aware of the Korean war, but you may not be aware that situations like the Jeju Island Massacre (1) preceded it, that the US destroyed 80% of all buildings (including civilian structures)(2), or the massacres that regularly took place during it(3).
U$ sanctions are responsible for, at minimum, hundreds of thousands of deaths globally due to deprivation and starvation(4). Sanctions typically mean that an entity that does business with a sanctioned entity is blocked from any trade with the U$, and blocked from using the SWIFT network for international payments which has been the only game in town until recently.
Sanctions from the U$ are siege warfare, meant to starve and hurt civilians.
The DPRK isn’t despotic, they’re desperately trying to stay afloat and survive while their abuser of 70 years keeps telling everyone not to sell them food.
People usually bring up the Kim family as a “dynasty”, but they’ve all held different positions with different responsibilities, and Kim Jong-Un is basically a foreign liaison. They have a whole democratic government structure, but the West is happy allying with monarchies and slave states, so I don’t think it’s worth spending much time refuting the dynasty point.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_uprising 2.https://apjjf.org/charles-k-armstrong/3460/article 3.https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2026/01/26/no-gun-ri-massacre-when-american-soldiers-killed-hundreds-of-south-korean-refugees.html 4.https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00278-5/fulltext