Memes @lemmy.ml

1y ago

Sure. Why not. Anything goes.

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They wouldn't be able to afford it, would they?
- Good point. Qatar is beyond wealthy but North Korea repeatedly has to threaten to nuke people in order to get aid packages.
  
  They have quite a lot of money, particularly in foreign currency slush funds (see Room 39 for example). However the Kim family has the final say in what is government money and what never makes it onto the books.
  They could probably afford a FIFA championship. It's admitting they have that kind of money, that would be a huge problem.
  
  North Korea just prints their own money!
- They've got loads of slaves they can throw at it, why not?
  
  but what about materials and things that you have to pay for?
  
  DPRK is a resource rich country but can’t even finish building a hotel after almost 40 years
- North Korea's GDP is on the order of 20 billion per year. Tiny for a country that size, but considering they don't have to spend any of it on their population, that gives them a lot of bribe money.

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

Uncritical support to the ideology of Juche and its implementation
- Ad hominem

And yet mfers still go in mass to these games in countries with extreme human rights issues and throw billions of dollars at merch.

Korea has lots of big stadiums and the people there seems to like football so why couldn't they host a world cup?
- I don’t think the DPRK wants to give an opportunity to basically any country in the world to plant spies. Considering the US used visits of the Atomic Energy Commission to infiltrate the DPRK in the 90s, welcoming thousands and thousands of difficult to vet corporate reps sounds like an open invitation for infiltration.
  
  Yeah I don't think they shouldn't be allowed, but I also believe it would be a bad idea.
- so why couldn't they host a world cup?
- Well according to a .world poster in this thread that you and I can't see from our instance, the DPRK has slaves. But don't worry, this won't happen because a lemmy.ca user thinks that "Letting that many foreigners into North Korea would be a PR disaster for the Country."
  
  I'd love to say it would be a PR disaster for American news, but realistically people have become too invested in the American Cinematic Universe to be swayed by what visitors have to say.
  The lib I work with believes all the nonsense about North Korea and I've tried explaining to him that North Korea literally has non-North Korean tour guides who absolutely allow you to go where you want but usually prefer if you don't because no one would be able to communicate with you if you got lost, and your vacation would be wasted if you had no idea where to go, but he believes that it's all just a show, as though any country on the planet actually puts in that kind of effort to convince foreigners. Every time I tell him there are literally people who've posted positive news in regards to being there, or about a non-North Korean who works there, he still wants to believe what the news says or whatever negative claims are being made about it, and so he challenged me to go to North Korea on vacation and 'find out the truth for both of us' (he already believes I'll come back with horror stories), and so I challenged him and asked "If I go there and find out that it's all nonsense, that the country is fine and peaceful, would you believe me?". I personally hate traveling, and going on vacation anywhere is a chore I loathe, and so surely if I go to such effort then he'll believe me, right? His response was a reluctant "I'll be more likely to believe it"
  This guy doesn't want to believe he's been lied to about North Korea; literally no amount of evidence will sway him; it's almost like this is some kind of investment for him (I say him, but this applies to libs in general).

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
- Many people are saying it!

"much worst?"
- Lol
- Right up there with “worse comes to worse” and “what do you have to loose”
  
  Hey, their trying there best over they're, okay?

Uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire.
- Uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Football from the genocidal FIFA empire.

Wtf based FIFA.

Are you really suggesting the DPRK is worse than Qatar? Lmao.
Only the US will kill 20 percent of a population, establish a right wing military dictatorship in the south, and paint the democratic and progressive north as an evil regime worse than an absolute monarchy.
- paint the democratic and progressive north as an evil regime worse
  You clowns are beyond parody
  
  Ad hominem
- I'm Canadian.
  
  That's a good point. Let me amend her post:
  Only the US and America Jr. will kill 20 percent of a population, establish a right wing military dictatorship in the south, and paint the democratic and progressive north as an evil regime worse than an absolute monarchy.
  
  y'all been taking some Ls lately. If I were Canadian I'd pretend to be American
  
  Oh, the country where after ww2 a waffen ss tattoo would get you in.
  
  Doesn't change anything. Most of the US allies are US vassals nowadays.

It's probably not logistically viable, but as a matter of principle, there is absolutely no reason why DPRK couldn't host to world cup. It's gone to plenty of worse countries.
- It has only gone to worse countries.

if you think a WC in NK would be worse than in Saudi Arabia you’re up to your eyeballs in amerikkkan propaganda
Death to America
- I don't know why you are talking about Saudi Arabia. Qatar is not Saudi Arabia.
  
  Lol. You owned yourself
  
  Saying you don't know why people are talking about Saudia Arabia regarding the world cup when the world cup is in Saudi Arabia really demonstrates the people who are interested in this story because of following football and those interested because American propoganda told them to be.
- Do we really need extreme politics in a meme community?
  
  What's extreme about it?
  
  Political "memes" are going to get political.

Seems like a clear improvement to me

I've been off Hexbear for a while wtf is this shit
- The consequences of federation.
  
  So there's just libs in Hexbear now? No way to separate one from the other? What did we gain from this?

Okay guys, enlighten me. If Nestle is a 10 on the evil scale, what is Fifa?
- 1/10 cos they would bribe the scale
  
  Nah, get with the times. FIFA only accepts bribes.
- About the same? Just like any other big company really, they all share the same interests.
- If Nestle is a 10 then North Korea is a 12 and FIFA is an 11.5
  
  Nah nestle is worse than fifa
- About a 9 to 10 I would guess
- Assuming lower is more evil, FIFA is 2 - 6i + 3j. Sorry, I guess we’re using quaternions.

So many great additions to my block list today!
- Right?
- Are you that afraid of contrary opinions on a country you know nothing about?
- They just keep coming!

Letting that many foreigners into North Korea would be a PR disaster for the Country.
- They have a pretty big tourist industry but it would mostly be people from China

America is hosting the world cup next so.....yeah literally at this point anything goes. The only way it could be worse is if the literal Nazi regime was back and they were hosting the world cup.
- Don't give Canada any ideas
  
  Or it's fatherland US of A where Nazis are national heroes
  Oh... wait they already did

Much worse, not worst
- Oh my gosh, I didn't even notice that

On a side note, what exactly are we censoring on that bottom photos.
Are we just censoring a bomb detonator box or are we censoring something else....
- It's not even a detonator box. It's a bike pump because he's inflating the massive paint bubble.
  So it's a pointless black box.
  
  Are you kidding me!? It's a sexy, half-naked, pink (pink is the color of genitalia and is also slang for vagina!!!) starfish (starfish aka the butthole shape!!!) repeatedly slamming his big, thick rod into a tight little hole! That's basically pornography!
- "I dont think this bubble can get much bigger"
  
  No, on the bottom picture. They censored the bicycle tire pump for some reason.

And what would be the problem with NK hosting the world cup huh? Not that it would happen since the WC is nothing more than an ad for countries, you get to host it if you pay the FIFA.

Nuke dropped if a western country wins

Since Qatar has already hosted a world cup, he's got a point

an entirely reasonable position they're the organisation to set up football matches not the world police
- North Korea isn't exactly a normal country. Considering how the vast majority of the world knows what North Korea is actually like, this will not be a popular event. FIFA is supposed to pick locations that will help the game spread and grow on global stage. The most shut in country in the world isn't exactly a good pick. Not to mention the international criticism of FIFA as well as the boycotts from countries and fearful athletes,
  
  How does everyone in the world know what it's like if it's shut in? Why is it shut in?

NK has the largest football stadium in the world so...

I wouldn’t so much as think of attending even if it was right in the next town, so okay. Do it. I’ll enjoy reading about what a disaster it was.

Today, I feel like North Korean...

worse

Worse, not worst.

Don't they have a shortage of bananas?

Ok, hear me out...we use a North Korean fifa world cup as a coverup to rescue the citizens from the country.

Please fucking go back. Who the fuck wants to read these dumbass communist manifestos every time anything gets posted? Do you dorks just search for hot topics to flood?
- The longest comment I can find is like 5 paragraphs and quoting an article, is that a manifesto to you?
  Also "go back"? <3 Commies <3 have been here longer than you.
  
  Communists != tankies
  Real communists and socialist care about human rights, and dislike brutal, totalrian regimes like ruzzia, China and north korea.
  Tankies (and presumably, you) are free to move to those countries to be disappeared once you speak against the regime you so dearly love :3 <3

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