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In reply to the discussion: ** Breaking**NK says Trump declared war [View all]Nevernose
(13,081 posts)And while we're soliciting opinions from inmates, perhaps we could ask the 80,000 or so in solitary confinement in American prisons? Or one of the thousands of American inmates who are brutalized in some form or fashion every day? Or maybe ask ourselves why we imprison more people per capita than North Korea does? The prison conditions in much of the developing world are just as bad, and yet we don't seem concerned; could the answer be because our motivation isn't actually moral, but political? We fucked up Iraq worse in twenty years than the Kim family did to their own country in 70 years, so why aren't people calling for an invasion of the US? How many people have starved to death in Yemen TODAY because of the US?
The United States lacks any and all moral authority in Korea. Hell, we propped up a repressive South Korean military dictatorship for forty years while screaming about "freedom" and bombing the holy living shit out of half the countries on the planet. The US is killing -- both directly and indirectly -- thousands of people across the globe every single day.