Just ask any democrat.
Posted on 08/20/2020 1:36:46 AM PDT by Cronos
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has, reportedly, ordered citizens to give up their pet dogs, so that the canines can be killed for their meat. The country is currently fighting an acute food shortage while trying to manage the coronavirus pandemic.
Dogs are considered to be a sign of Western decadence and only the country’s elite own them as pets.
North Korea’s supreme leader, to quell discontent among his people, has ordered people to hand over their pet dogs, using class difference as an excuse to justify the move, which is being described as brutal and inhumane.
Dogs in North Korea have always been associated with capitalist notions and the rule banning pet dogs has been implemented on and off since the 1980s.
Kim Jong-un, whose focus has been to improve the country’s defence, has spent a lot of resources to develop and test nuclear weapons. Now, owing to a fall in trade with China, its economic condition has worsened. According to the UN, several families are able to afford only one meal a day. Approximately 60 per cent of the 25.5 million population in North Korea is suffering from starvation.
According to multiple reports, North Korea has also been facing a shortage of food. The New York Times reported once confiscation of pooches begins in Pyongyang, some of them will be sent to zoos and some to restaurants for meat.
Authorities have been tasked to identify families in North Korea with pet dogs, and it is highly likely that the family will not be able to do much once authorities are at their doorstep to take away their pets.
Just ask any democrat.
What if they cut Fido’s hair like Dear Leader’s? Will that help? What if fat boy cuts his daily calorie intake by 20%? That should feed a few families.
So Kimmie’s wife is giving him up to help the food shortage?
So stupid, no one wants to invade a disaster of a country that basically belongs to China. The only defense he’s spending for is the military that protects him from losing his dictatorship.
When the Koreans eat up all their dogs, what’s next? A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)?
It’s not stupid - he’s spending on the military to prevent him from losing his god-dictatorship
It’s China’s money he’s spending. At some point, that well is going to run dry.
More rats for the cats...
Capitalism has given the world the longest peaceful expansion in population and trade in human history. The period of American hegemony since WWII has seen the world’s population double and trade expand by many fold. The problem with capitalism, as far as dictators are concerned, is it makes political powers from people who have no history or background (not of the establishment) of power. People like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and others get rich, and therefore, powerful. They enter politics. Dictators are uniquely vulnerable if that happens on their territory. Their power base is the control of limited resources. The more limited the resource and the firmer their power over it, the more control they have. Forcing people to eat their dogs is not possible if there are entrepreneurs creating wealth everywhere. I understand why dictators don’t want and can’t afford to allow free enterprise. Once people have wealth they quickly tired of people whose only task is to take it from them. The wealth developed in China and Russia was, to varying degrees, kept in the hands of elites who depend on the status quo to stay on top. Even then you find the people at the top periodically culling the wealthy to firmly establish who is in control. (Shut up and eat your dog.)
I don't understand that sentence. Can you help me understand it?
From the rest of your posting, I infer that you were in fact trying to say that capitalism gives political power to newcomers.
Is that, indeed, a fair reading of your position?
Regards,
“Is that, indeed, a fair reading of your position?”
I stand corrected.
Dog meat is like other omnivore meat. Such as black bear or raccoon all of which when cooked right is delicious. Black bear feeding over wild Alaska blue berries is second to none in meat quality. Its sweet and lean. Having been stationed in Korea in the 90s dog meat was common and also quite delicious. Meat is meat pigs are way more intelligent than dogs having raised a number of pigs I can attest to this even though science has proven it.conclusively with countless studies. Horse meat is also delicious and horses are also more intelligent than dogs. Again meat is meat all animals are humans domain to eat ALL of them the Good book confirms this multiple times. Human apply human traits and emotions to animals it’s a mental weakness.
Korea’s eat dogs on the regular north and south. When I was in Korea in the 90s dog was common food truck food. You couldn’t go a few blocks after the bars closed without finding a food stall serving all manor of meats on sticks dog was as common as pork in the bar districts. It’s delicious after a hars night of drinking similar to duck or.black bear in texture and color.
Truly a pity you did not encounter Jeffrey Dahmer between 1978-1991.
I think the difference between the British Empire and the French Empire was the British government saw itself as the facilitator of citizens getting wealthy. They created rules and regulations that made that happen. The citizen’s wealth helped the empire grow. The French government’s role was to stand between people and their projects. The French government approved each project and, thus, some inefficient things were done that came up with suboptimal results. As a ridiculous example of this, only approved art was allowed. Thus, expressionism took a long time to become established because the state sponsored galleries only wanted realism.
Wow I’m part of the rich elite? I never got that memo.
It’s for the “greater good” Just like every other terrible utopian idea.
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