Pro-DPRK tankies in the anti-Trump Resistance?

[Derec]

A photo taken last Monday in NYC.

From here.

Besides the usual anti-Israel and pro-illegal signs, something new caught my eye. The protest had signs like "US out of Korea" and a map of united Korea (presumably under Kim's dictatorship given that they want US out) next to a map of "Palestine" that has taken over Israeli territory.

That's a bad sign. The more crazy the Resistance gets, the more sane Trump's insanity will appear by comparison. See also the signs against the Laken Riley Act, which was passed with bipartisan majorities.

 

[pood]

You do realize, don’t you, that your Orange Jesus has talked about pulling troops out of South Korea and palled around with Kim in his first term?

However, I have read your posts, and don’t anticipate plunging down any ridiculous rabbit holes with you.

 

[Derec]

That makes anti-Trump protesters calling for US withdrawal from there and for reunification under DPRK all the more ridiculous, doesn't it?

 

[pood]

No, what’s ridiculous is the preposterous title of your thread, and everything else you wrote. But do go run around with your butterfly chasing imaginary demons.

 

[bilby]

That's a bad sign.

It's a couple of bad signs. Made by a couple of enthusiastic people who, as has always been the case at protests, have pushed to the front of a crowd, to give the (false) idea that their frankly insignificant opinion is shared by the whole body of protestors.

There are a whole bunch of people who turn out to these things, and they are exploited by a minuscule minority of activists in two common ways, the other (also visible in your pic) being mass produced signs handed out to anyone who will take one, exploiting the laziness of those who want to show support for a vague issue (but can't be arsed making a sign to carry), to make them appear to hold a specific and more extreme position.

You didn't imagine that the people holding signs from the "Party for Socialism and Liberation" or from the "Workers World Party" were members of those organisations, or had even heard of them prior to being handed a sign, did you?

There are likely more of their signs in that picture than there are members of either party.

The whole excercise is intended to give the incorrect impression that radicals and extremists have a level of popular support that they in fact lack. Two North Korean government workers with a few dollars worth of paint and paper just managed to cause you sufficient angst as to post a whole new thread.

Two people.

All they had to do was stand in a crowd, and you were scammed into thinking they represent some kind of groundswell of popular opinion.

It's propaganda so cheap that even the DPRK can afford it, and you got suckered hook, line and sinker.

 

[pood]

And, in addition to which, it is Trump and the MAGGOTs who did, and probably will, cozy up to North Korea. You know, this is the same kind of jejune inanity as the “truck of peace” BS. It’s really rather embarrassing for people to advertise how easily they are gulled.

 

[pood]

Meanwhile, was it Derec, or Rvonse, or maybe both, who have been yammering about what an anti-war man of peace the orange douchebag is? Well, here we have the orange mob boss directly threatening the Danish PM in demanding Greenland. It conjures images of Hitler in 1938 bullying Czechoslovakia into giving up Sudetenland. No wonder Alien Musk threw the orange turd a Hitler salute!

Let’s not forget the Man of Peace also vowed in his inaugural address to take back the Panama Canal!

 

[pood]

Derec is worried about some stray demonstrators with a stupid sign in what may have been something staged anyway, while at the same time his Orange Jesus could conceivably get us into a war with our NATO allies!

 

[TV and credit cards]

Fucking Steelers fan. Fuck him.