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FYI one can clearly see why 67 caught on.

That doot doot six seven song -> NBA stars saying it on tiktok -> Everyone else trying to catch clout by saying it too -> It's now a meme

No different than how other trends caught on, as you pointed out.

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/15/1123151802/king-charles-iii-inheritance-tax

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/revealed-queen-private-estate-invested-offshore-paradise-papers

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/dec/14/prince-charles-estate-tax-avoidance

Right, only juche sources will be tolerated when discussing the juche. Glory to our dear leader and his socialist utopia.

Have fun with your public self-humiliation ritual, I'm not into it.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/05/human-rights-north-korea

Surely it's not controversial to say North Korea is a totalitarian state ruled by an absolute leader that outlawed and violently represses any and all forms of political opposition, including those to his left, right?

I'm the first to shit on peoples' inability to see past cold war propaganda, as evidenced by a lot of my post history in this subreddit or one of my related comics or another one, there's plenty. Speaking as a non-reactionary, the DPRK is one of the worst examples to use in your comparison. It is not a country you should be stanning for, or using as a tool in a stupid game of "source for human rights abuse???". It does get a very unfair treatment and representation in western media and diplomacy, sure, but it doesn't make it a good comparison when the other one is a country where you can publicly denounce the propaganda without making yourself a target.

Where are all the DPRK Lemmy users? Oh yes, right, probably too busy smoking the "works cited" bong to participate.

Tourism thing that conveniently happens to be the biggest land owner and tax evader in the country.

One of those two countries threatens your life and your families life if you don't comply with the monarch worship propaganda.

I shed zero tears for the kulaks and the tsarist oligarchy, but Stalin also killed the revolutionary dream on his way to consolidating totalitarian power, so maybe there's a reason I'm like that.

I'm not criticizing people who struggle to navigate exploitative systems.

Rather satirizing some bad faith individuals who use the excuse as a blank check to justify obviously unethical choices.

This wasn't intended as criticism of "no ethical consumption", but rather as satire of people who misunderstand the concept and think "no ethical consumption" is a moral shield that acts as a permission slip to completely stop caring about ethics and indulge in the vilest, least ethical consumption possible. Who cares if it was made with slave labor, everything is made with slave labor amirite?

https://www.gfsbern.ch/en/news/if_europe_voted_on_frontex/

This meme is proving itself true. People romanticize the EU too much and/or don't know about what's going on in here.

I spend a lot of my free time helping migrants in my home country (France), they do get rounded up and sent in camps called "Centre de Rétention Administrative", some really really really bad places. Our police has been controlling IDs of parents outside schools, doing surprise ID checks at workplaces, etc. for a very long time. What ICE is currently doing isn't new to us. For example, earlier this year, we had a very public and pretty big ICE-like operation, and believe it or not, the general public cheered.

Mate you tell me to not talk about Frontex, well too bad, I will. The official death count is now at 66 519 as of 2025. That's just the documented death count, imagine what the real one is. We're not even counting Libyan torture camps and other similar lovely places paid for by our taxes. Some of my friends lost family members because of Frontex, I won't shut up about it just to please you. ICE is bad but it's not an exclusively american evil, it's a standard and expected incarnation of capitalist imperialism.

Yes, I'm happy to be living in the EU rather than in the USA. I do think the USA is a much worse place right now. But the difference is much easier to argue about when you're not on the wrong side of those massively murderous policies.

TL;DR: We have our own camps. Greece has one that's reminiscent of your Alligator Alcatraz. Chill tf out.