Hasan Piker

California state is the fourth largest economy in the world.

North Korea, I think, is the smallest economy in the world, right?

Right.

And they had built more housing units.

And they had built more phones inside of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea than the entirety of the United States of America.

So...

I find that so strange because they have all of the repression.

They have tremendous state repression.

But at least there's a market improvement in the material conditions, it seems, as far as like development, as far as building an industrial base.

They also have a robust defense industry now because they're helping people.

They're aiding Russia in this illegal invasion of Ukraine.

China's obviously helping them as well.

There's a lot of cars in Pyongyang now.

But what kind of world are we living in where our trajectory in the West, our trajectory as the domineering global hegemonic superpower here in the United States of America is a downward spiral

And we're also now experiencing state repression that we oftentimes point to when we justify our militant action against these other countries.

When we say, oh, look at the countries like North Korea.

We're starting that process now.

We're starting the state repression process here.

And we don't even have any sort of economic improvements in our lives.

I mean, it's totally ridiculous.