As someone who wants to be an educator. A good teacher can literally save kids’ lives and being a leftist teacher is praxis.

Huge agree that schooling models we have today in the West are very anti-child. Like kids should be able to do dumb shit and the school shouldn’t have to suffer for it.

No I get dysphoria

A child acted out in class, the West has fallen, millions must be spanked.

Well as I understand it whiteness isn’t an actual ethnicity, but a relation to power in the imperial core. Italians, Irish, Germans, Polish etc. were slowly enveloped into whiteness in the 20th century if they maintained the status quo of the West even though they were the target of varying amounts of discrimination.

I’m sure could tell an hour long history of how European nations have always othered Russia and other Eastern European nations but I doubt Russians have ever really been accepted into Whiteness, especially not the ethnic minorities. Russia is just not in the West

Beware of the Boy Boy to Juche pipeline

Weed camps.

Yeah in South Korea the cops will harass you until you die if they think you’re using illicit drugs, even if you’re a famous celebrity.

For a society that seemingly loves alcohol so much they sure hate anything that could actually help you in any meaningful way (same with Japan, alcohol is adored but weed is somehow going to destroy society)

This is good news. The North-South reunification effort is just as much of a farce as the Two State Solution for Israel Palestine and it should have been abandoned sooner.

Power comes from the barrel of (an artillery) gun.

I think a lot of NK media is just drowned out by the barrage of low-effort anti-communist propaganda. It has to do with the country’s lack of digital infrastructure compared to South Korea. You just can’t spend the same amount of resources like capitalist shitholes like Japan and South Korea on soft power if you’re under heavy sanctions so they choose carefully choreographed news pieces instead.

If technology can only be rationed to people who live in cities or on waiting lists then you can’t post harder than a society where everyone has a phone and has been conditioned by decades of dictatorship and corruption to accept capitalist rule without question and have been trained to glamorize capitalism in literally every facet of their lives. Even in their depression and horrible pain like this article.

The BBC can point at the gaping holes of South Korea and call it “Confucianism haha” while those similarly sized holes in North Korea become proof of the failure of communism. “nonfalsifiable anti-communist orthodoxy”

I used to use Unsocial Media like Instagram to find trans+queer creators that I really liked but I had to stop because they kept getting shadowbanned off the platform. Once a queer person gets any sort of traction they face so much shit.

Sometimes I go on auto-pilot mode and upbear every post I see on a thread and then I have to go back an unbear the shit replies.

Send airborne shit packages to the target’s location. The DPRK does PPB but in real life and that’s why we love em!

Read the article next time.

: “That’ll show OP, he didn’t even read the article that he posted”

It’s a weird trend for parents to try and connect with their socially self isolated adult children by socially isolating themselves.

It’s a little extreme sure, but sweet in a way.

Imagine how privileged you have to be to say this. Seems like you never grew any sort of empathy for people with mental health issues otherwise you’d know how unhelpful it would be for your parents to roleplay your depression using money and time that could have went to helping you.

Well Solution B is an honest capitalist free enterprise while Solution A is North Korean socialism propaganda. I mean, what’s the point of mental health services to Occupied Korea if someone doesn’t make bank on it?

The only thing connecting each tiny room at the Happiness Factory to the outside world is a feeding hole in the door.

If I wrote this in my novel I would be teased for being too corny, but to Occupied Korea this is just an average day.

I can’t imagine how horrible it must be to be a shut-in and instead of anyone helping you materially they sell your parents a ticket to experience a superficial facsimile of your depression.

"In Korea, parents often express their love and feelings through practical actions and roles rather than verbal expressions,” Prof Jeong says.

“Parents financing their children’s tuition fees through hard work is a typical example of a Confucian culture that emphasises responsibility."

Thank you sociology Prof Jeong Go-woon, see, this “loneliness” stuff is because Koreans are just a different race with a unique racial culture.

South Korea has some of the highest suicide rates in the world and last year, its government unveiled a five year plan aiming to address this.

Ministers announced there would be state-funded mental health check-ups for people aged 20-34 every two years.

Wow! 2.5 mental health checkups in 5 years! Why didn’t I think of that?

In Japan, the first wave of young people isolating themselves, in the 1990s, has led to a demographic of middle-aged people dependent on their elderly parents.

More orientalism that is used in place of actual materialist analysis to subdue people. “Those dang Japanese and Good Koreans work too hard, it’s in their blood”

The BBC should be beaten to death with a stick before it hurts more people.

liberals are mind confuzzling but they’re also not. There’s this one FOSS dev whose mastodon I skim through (for updates on projects he’s leading) and today he’s just boosting posts like “Trump was able to lie and not get fact-checked and Biden is just old” and “save American democracy” and I always thought it was weird until he made a post describing how he as a was born and raised in Alabama and was taught that there are heroes and villains and the villains want to take democracy away and the heroes (usually msm approved black radicals like Rosa Parks and MLK) gave us democracy.

He’s surrounded by people with in their usernames so I shouldn’t be surprised. It sucks because their USian liberal worldview permeates through everything and it always feels like you’re being talked down to.

Aang’s never taken a life except all the times that he did and never felt anything about it.

When the worst person you know is right type moment.

Proprietary antivirus software is a dirty bandaid they use instead of building sustainable supply chains on nonfree operating systems (because it’s all about grifting and conning people out of money and gatekeeping computers).

But yeah this was done probably because kaspersky was disabling anti-features on Windows and was killing the competition. Kaspersky’s full scale invasion of boomers’ computers.

I’m convinced that the show was supposed to be an original story but in order for execs to sign on anything it has to be tied to an existing product/brand. So we end up with a wildly different tone but dressed in recognizable branding.

No need to pay script writers to revise drafts or costume/set designers for new designs. Just rename characters and make it vaguely like the source material.

It really felt like game of thrones when the brother and sister leads go to somewhere called “the cave of lovers”.

Childrens programming, especially if it has gone on for long enough can radically change in tone/execution and the show in the movie has run for 5 seasons. But I personally think the Pink Opaque of Isabel and Tara never existed but were used as a way for Owen to disengage from their gender noncomformity. When Maddie returns, she asks Owen if they remember the Pink Opaque and the emphasis on memory can be due to Owen memory hole’d trans experience which get painfully dug up.

I mean, who hasn’t lived out their queerness in derivative media/fanfics? I personally head canon the tapes that Maddie sends as tapes of her acting out her own version of the show or something like that since queerness is so tied to self expression and creativity.

One part of the movie I really hated was how Isabel acted toward her caregivers/Owen treats their parents. Also the fact that Owen being half black is never touched upon. Race and transness intersect really hard so it was odd that it never came up (though Justice Smith is an incredible actor and played his role of repressed egg to near perfection). I also didn’t like Maddie/Tara, I think her character was too melodramatic for me personally. But thats probably due to the fact that the movie captures the trans zeitgeist of the 90s and early 2000s where transness was near invisible in western society unlike today (mashallah)

Mr. Melancholy represents the cynicism of a cishet society. The monsters that he sends to Isabel and Tara are children’s imagination (ice cream man) turned into nightmares. He ultimately sends Isabel to the midnight realm where she is forced into Owen who has to watch her own self be buried alive. He is the cruelty required to maintain cis-heternormativity in a capitalist society.

I’d argue it never becomes too late. Tara (Maddie) scribbles down “There’s still time” and Owen finally discovers Isabel trapped within him at his point of deepest despair. Director Schoenbaum said that they didn’t choose to write a explicitly “happy ending” because the trans journey for Isabel has just started as Owen can’t exist anymore.