Doubledee
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I think that's a slight exaggeration, although I get what you're saying. But I think it's important to demonstrate to libs that I'm being consistent so I'll explain what I mean.
I don't think the communal decision making bodies that spun up in the wake of the Japanese evacuation were necessarily completely aligned with Kim or the communists in exile, it was virtually impossible to maintain a functioning domestic apparatus and what I've read makes it seem like these were mostly improvisational.
That said, I think in the long run you're right, I see it as similar to Vietnam later: because US foreign policy was aligned with elements that were naturally unpopular to the population of the country (in Korea's case, the Japanese and domestic collaborators) a democratic resolution of the question of what sort of government a united Korea would chose for itself was not going to be an acceptable outcome to the US.
But we don't know what they would organically choose for themselves because that decision was foreclosed by US occupation. I suspect a popular referendum was the best possible outcome but I think it would probably look very different from the current DPRK, for understandable reasons.
Yeah I don't think they shouldn't be allowed, but I also believe it would be a bad idea.
Yankees really lived through Afghanistan and Iraq and learned about Vietnam and still think they are being given accurate narratives of state enemies now. I had hoped by now we might see even the most rudimentary skepticism of US media but alas.
They were not though, neither the communists nor the Japanese collaborators believed the line was a legitimate or permanent division of the country. The plan was always reunification and no Korean party accepted the terms you're talking about.
Ironically there was an independent government emerging in the wake of the collapse of Japan but the US occupation outlawed it when they came in.
Can we not see the people engaging? Because from what I see maybe one or two people interact with that comm on any given post. Unless they're all invisible that's pathetic engagement for as many users are supposedly following it.
It's a UK English thing, a row is a fight, they would describe the US Congress fighting over the shutdown as a row.
Most of these are probably associations I made because I listened to them in the fall while cleaning buildings at 5 in the morning but here's a few suggestions.
Houndmouth's Little Neon Limelight is an album that feels like late summer/early fall to me, a nice mix of chill and with energetic interruptions.
Josh Ritter's Sermon on the Rocks has some explicit mentions of the weather changing and came out in fall, I think it's got the right vibe, although some of the more 'talky' songs are probably an acquired taste.
If you like weird minimalistic cello and guitar duets you might like Tall Heights. Almost everything they do is sparse and fall-ish to my mind but the small album Holding On and Holding Out probably wins most autumnal.
Can't go wrong with Tom Waits, throw a dart and you'll hit a good fall song somewhere in his repertoire.
For something more upbeat maybe try Green Lung or Wolves Like Me. They're both a bit more ominous as opposed to the chill of most of the list.
I think China also just has less urgency with this sort of thing, if you let the numbers play out the outcome keeps improving from their perspective. Right now they would take huge losses in a confrontation and possibly lose outright if it came to that. 10 years ago it would have been worse, they've dramatically grown their capabilities in the interim while the US has more or less stalled. How will the math look 10 years from now? What's the point of being confrontational if the risk is already too great for the US to try anything, and keeps increasing by the day?
He's afraid of losing Michigan. The Dems are seeing the same polls we are, and they're worried they will lose the people they lost in 2016. I don't think it's much more complicated, liberals are broadly sympathetic to workers in the abstract, going outside and talking is one of their favorite things to do. He can tick off the boxes with limited risk by just showing up and not tripping on his shoelaces.
Do we know if their kid was born without incident? I knew they were due soon and my first worry was that something happened to the baby.
Edit: Nevermind me, I hadn't read the text of the announcement, guess Matt got got.