Dude you wrote three responses to the same comment in three minutes and posted them all

The reason you think people need your advice about dropping the adventurism for the cravat

What adventurism? We haven’t got any adventurism. The closest we’ve got to adventurism is a adventurism facade on shitposting.

The problem with aristocrats isn’t that they drop their r’s or wear cravats, so who cares if NJR wants to dress as a caricature of one? He’s not making us look any more ridiculous than the people posting arcane drilbits on twitter in the Chris Hayes mentions.

The country he lives in and pays taxes to is currently the most imperialist nation on Earth, the center of global capital, and at war with the DPRK. This is what he has to say about the DPRK in a Current Affairs article in his supposedly “socialist” publication. He admires the aesthetics of DPRK (who wouldn’t), but then repeats Liberal western talking points attacking the Socialist nation his country is at war with currently.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/04/attempting-to-understand-north-korea

If they do believe it, we should be very worried, according to B.R. Myers’s The Cleanest Race. Myers says that the DPRK’s governing ideology has been misunderstood by the United States. We think of it as “authoritarian communist,” thanks to its all-powerful state and various Stalinist trappings. But Myers says this is misleading: The regime is closer in character to fascism, because of its racism and nationalism (Stalinists have many unappealing qualities, but they do not build their ideology around race and nation). The communist elements, Myers says, are window dressing. Even Kim Il-Sung himself knew little about Marxism, and he dismayed the Russians when they quizzed him on it. And strictly speaking, the regime operates as a monarchy. Myers says that “socialism” is not the right term, because it doesn’t describe the self-image we see in the state’s propaganda, which heavily emphasizes the purity of North Koreans and their need for a protective parent-leader.

Absolute anti-communist imperialist horseshit. Reactionary nonsense. He should be ashamed of repeating this. This is who he is quoting and platforming by the way. A contributing editor to The Wallstreet Journal, The Atlantic, New York Times.

Brian Reynolds Myers (born 1963), usually cited as B. R. Myers, is an American professor of international studies at Dongseo University in Busan, South Korea, best known for his writings on North Korean propaganda. He is a contributing editor for The Atlantic and an opinion columnist for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Myers is the author of Han Sǒrya and North Korean Literature (Cornell, 1994), A Reader’s Manifesto (Melville House, 2002), The Cleanest Race (Melville House, 2010), and North Korea’s Juche Myth (Sthele Press, 2015).

Myers was born in New Jersey, near Fort Dix. His mother is British, and his father was a U.S. Army officer from Pennsylvania who served in South Korea as a military chaplain, often helping out local orphans.

Myers spent his childhood in Bermuda and his high school youth in apartheid-era South Africa, and received graduate education in West Berlin during the early 1980s, occasionally visiting East Germany. He earned an MA degree in Soviet studies at Ruhr University (1989) and a PhD degree in Korean studies with a focus on North Korean literature at the University of Tübingen (1992). Myers subsequently taught German in Japan and worked for a Mercedes-Benz liaison office in Beijing during the mid-1990s.

Lmao, this is who you are getting in bed with when you get in bed with these credentialist nerds. Went to school in Apartheid South Africa, Nazi West Germany and then now is a hardline anti-DPRK anti-communist. Some white guy involved in colonizing Korea and a contributing editor of The Atlantic. Back to NJR:

For example, personally, I find Myers’ explanation appealing. If I’m being honest, though, that’s probably partly because it lumps Kim Jong Un in with right-wing fascists, and distances him from the left. I’ve always felt that “socialists” have no more responsibility for dictatorships that call themselves socialist than democratic republicans have for, well, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Since I oppose dictatorships universally, pointing out that there have been “leftist” dictatorships poses no actual challenge to my politics. Instinctively, though, I confess that I’d feel relieved if Kim Jong Un was lumped in with the right rather than the left.

Oh damn dude that’s just social fascism. Like I said. Spreading imperialist intrigue.

That’s not to say that patriotism is coerced rather than sincere. A lot of it surely is sincere. Chol-hwan Kang, in The Aquariums of Pyongyang, recalls that as a child, he sincerely saw Kim Il-Sung as a kind of Santa Claus, who neither urinated nor defecated

Yes they’re just brainwashed ants who believe mythical stupid things. He’s repeating anti-communsit bullshit from South Korean versions of the National Inquirer to his audience of Western social chauvinists, re-inforced their ingrained racist anti-communist hatred of the Korean people that they recently genocided.

There is a coherent aesthetic to many of them, and Bonner draws attention to the repeated use of the country’s “traditional motifs and color palette.” It’s no surprise that that should be the case, since authoritarian rule provides an easy shortcut to aesthetic consistency.

Yes, the authoritarian rule. That’s the only reason these inscrutable asiatics have beautiful design and architecture, the only reason they can coordinate as a society and remove ads and other eyesores.

That beauty may have been built on a mountain of human suffering, but, if we’re being honest, so have many of the world’s aesthetic treasures.

Yes, Pyongyang is like the Egyptian monuments of old, and KJU is an emperor that sits atop it.

Just shut the fuck up Liberals goddamn this nerd sucks. BOOOOOOO