• Comment105@lemm.ee
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      They always say North Korea or China, not Japan, South Korea, or anything from Southeast Asia.

      We don’t have an equivalent in Europe or in America yet, (Although America is doing the work to get there fast, and there are similar people trying to get Europe there.) but the equivalent we did have last century is still referenced in these kinds of threads. Perhaps even more so than the two examples you don’t want to be used.

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      It has nothing to do with Asia, but with a totalitarian regime. Such mass surveillance is what dictators do. I could also have said old east Germany, the USSR, Russia, the US, Turkmenistan, El salvador. It’s just that I chose north Korea as it is currently one of the worst and most known today.

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          Because I don’t want the EU to change in a totalitarian regime. I want to be the good guys but I’m disgusted by our support of Israel, I’m disgusted by our predatory trade deals with developing countries, etc. So I know we’re not he good guys. But I want to be, and I want to keep/make the EU a nice place to live in. So I do compare certain extreme proposals to countries where you’d expect certain things to happen, so people will understand we don’t want to go in that direction. We should always strive to do better. But we also have a dictatorship inside the EU (Hungary) so it’s not all happy days het either. We should just steer away from this instead of incorporate it into the entire EU.

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              Any country that treats fleeing the country as criminal deserves all the hate it can get. North Korea is evil.

              It deserves all criticism and insult, both fair and precise teardowns, and mad sloppy jabs.

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              You just attack me based on your assumptions. You are doing exactly what you are accusing me of: You act like you are better than me by making me a bad guy.

              If you think the EU isn’t a better place than the DPRK, you’re free to go there. I do not expect certain things to happen in a free democracy, when we want to keep it a free democracy instead of a totalitarian regime. I’m willing to fight for it and speak out. Giving up all our privacy for mass surveillance doesn’t fit the EU and what it stands for. If you think otherwise, you might not understand the EU.

              I don’t feel like defending attacks based on your assumptions so I’m going to step out of this discussion. There aren’t just good and bad guys, the world is so much more complex than just black and white. You keep on attacking me for thinking “we are the good guys” even though I already said we aren’t. We indeed are better than others and others are better than us. That’s how the world works. But there are no good guys. I try to be become better and help others become better. I don’t look down on others, rather prefer to help them instead. I try to be a good guy but I also make mistakes. I’m only human. But at least I’m doing the best I can.

              I wish you a good day