Since somebody realized they could make good money selling t-shirts to assholes.
Honestly, I’m perfectly fine with these people wearing “warning labels”. This way, I can tell from across the room who I shouldn’t bother engaging with. I hope some cynical left-winger is making money off of these tools.
When I was in school we did the same thing but drew american flags. I still think it's brain washing even if it was an American flag over a swastika but one did a bit more damage than the other, like a way but more
Why does everyone always focus so much on architecture? Like, if you really wanna visualize how South Korea is materially much better off than North Korea, just use the satellite view at night where North Korea is almost completely absent of lights.
There's a million better things to criticize North Korea for besides having commie blocks. Especially considering the pic they chose genuinely doesn't look that bad.
"Commie blocks" can be quite nice if renovated and repaired regularly. The big problem with them is when they're basically left to rot, with elevators that haven't been inspected in over 2 decades, corroded water pipes, and jury-rigged electricals.
Edit: Should also probably mention that tenement blocks were absolutely perfect for their explicit goal: building pretty decent housing cheaply and quickly for post WW2 countries flattened by war.
I'm sure they do. They're used in basically every country, to a greater or lesser degree. It just seems that when talking about a formerly or currently communist country, tenement blocks suddenly become "commie blocks", as if it's a uniquely Soviet style of housing or something.
You don't need to do a very good illustration job for people to associate NK with famine, abject poverty, and an oppressive regime. The pictures do an alright job at that, and everyone understands what this meme really says: NK can't feed its citizens, SK is rich and prosperous almost beyond belief, especially considering that NK had a big head start after the war.
Like c'mon, this is just the wrong meme to post in "the right can't meme". In fact "capitalism prosperous, communism poor" is a 60+ year old meme at this point. Maybe we should start articulating capitalism's own problems through memes rather than stupidly "dunk" on capitalists for touting what is arguably capitalism's greatest success story.
…and have it run by a greedy, despotic dictator. Make sure the dictator says its a capitalist country though, seeing as labels are more important than what’s actually happening in a country.
That nearly does describe most capitalist countries though. It's just that the wealthiest people in them, the oligarchs are the despotic rulers whom the government runs itself for.
Abolishes slavery, and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
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Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post–Civil War issues
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Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color or previous condition of servitude
To expand for a non-American who still may not understand the context:
The 13th amendment abolishes slavery in the US, where slavery at the time (prior to 1865) was based on the notion in the southern states that you could and should be owned as a slave if you were black. That included lifelong servitude of you and your children, any punishment deemed appropriate including severe physical punishments, and murder without consequence. Even if you were a free black man, and not shipped in from Africa like the majority of slaves, you could be captured by police and auctioned to someone to work on their plantation.
The 14th amendment establishes primarily that all persons in the US are equal regardless of the color of their skin. The bloodiest war in US history (Civil War, 1861-1865) was fought over the right for the southern states to declare it legal to own slaves, vs the northern states wanting slavery abolished federally. These amendments were ratified after the north won. Even after the war, it took another hundred years before Americans as a whole saw non-white people as equal. This and the next amendment were very much necessary to protect the newly found rights of former slaves.
The 15th, at least, is self explanatory.
The point of this meme is literally positing that it's ok to make black people slaves again if other parts of the constitution can change, because they're pretty boldly racist. There's not much else to it.
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