• theblips@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Imagine how silent and unpolluted NK is, ngl it would be a great vacation if not for the moral concerns

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      15 hours ago

      it’s full of pollution from china. it’s a seasonal pattern whereby dry sandy desert air from the gobi mixes with industrial emissions feom beijing and blows over to the korean peninsula, coating everything with a yellow-orange dust every spring

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      15 hours ago

      I watched Ed Stafford (first man to walk the length of the amazon) survive on a uninhabited Fijian island for about a month. He picked up a toothbrush, multiple bottles, a metal can, rope/netting and a rugby ball. That was just the useful stuff.

      There shit on that beach in NK I’m certain.

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      22 hours ago

      Just don’t say anything against Dear Leader or you’ll come back catatonic then die like that other American tourist.

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        21 hours ago

        I seem to remember he took a poster off the wall to keep as a souvenir, so they killed him. Don’t touch the posters, people.

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      1 day ago

      Damn, you’re right. I wouldn’t want to vacation anywhere that has a long history of atrocious civil rights abuses.

      Books tickets to Florida

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        Anyone traveling to Italy?! People shouldn’t forget that they were on the WRONG side of the war until Mussolini was gone! TRAITORS OF THE WORLD!

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          22 hours ago

          Easy to forget that Italy was with the Allies group in WW1. But also that WW1 ended with private sector creditors knocking at the door of winners and losers alike. The old aristocracy had leveraged itself to the hilt in order to finance a pointless, needless, catastrophic war between regional powers. And now the new aristocracy of capital was trying to strip the copper out of the walls of the proles in order to pay back what was owed.

          This lead to a groundswell of socialist organization and radicalism in the wake of the Great War. One which threatened aristocrats old and new. The only response Italians (and Germans… and Brits and Americans to boot) could conceive of was a fascist heel-stomp on the necks of the rising organizations of labor.

          TRAITORS OF THE WORLD!

          Hardly traitors. Fascism was pioneered to preserve the aristocracy and the capitalists alike, by turning worker against worker along ethnic and national lines.

          It was the socialists who were the traitors. They sought to end the old world and bring about a new one. And they nearly did it.