Comment on North Korean youth risk arrest for speaking like South Koreans

psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Infamousblt@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We take our fake news comm very seriously and ask that all fake news be contained within

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sure bud.

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    • Infamousblt@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What makes you think that this is real?

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      • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t really care about the news?

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• Zuzak@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in a story about one of Lyndon Johnson’s early campaigns in Texas.

  The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumour campaign about his opponent’s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows.

  "Christ, we can’t get away with calling him a pig-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.”

  “I know,” Johnson replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitchh deny it.”

  not-immune-to-propaganda

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• shani66@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s insane how eager they are to go to bat for NK

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  • bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why won’t someone defend the NK when they’re literally fighting for their freedom? They’re literally blockaded by the US and threatened with invasion drills every single year, not to mention that the US literally occupies the south with military bases.

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    • shani66@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because NK is a despotic hellhole. The rational stance on the Korean war is to stay the hell out of it, both sides are horrible examples of states failing their only purpose. Whatever magical utopia you think NK will become without the intervention of capital and capitalism is just a fantasy that will not happen, not in North Korea.

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      • bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The rational stance on the Korean war is to stay the hell out of it.

        Which is why you should be advocating for american troops to leave Korea and lift the economic blockade, not demonize the DPRK.

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  • Horse@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it’s more wild how eager libs are to insist that a small, relatively poor country that has no real relevance to most people’s lives is some kind of wacky hermit kingdom where you can be executed by artillery strike for having the wrong haircut, every city is made of cardboard for propaganda purposes, and people have to push the trains along the tracks

    especially when all of this is presented with no evidence, is often directly contradictory, and makes absolutely no sense if you think about it for more than five minutes

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    • redchert@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Radlibs like Hasan the Streamer indulge in that aspect themselves. Blaming tankies for having “bad optics” by supporting NK without slandering it. Once they said they same thing about supporting Palestinians and opposing Zionism. Wrong they were and wrong they shall remain. True solidarity screams into the turned faces.

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    • shani66@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you think NK is anything but a shithole you are an idiot. If you think it’s normal for you people to be complete recluses but then to come out in force when someone mentions a shithole like NK you are also an idiot.

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      • Horse@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you think NK is anything but a shithole you are an idiot.

        why? i have been shown no credible evidence that it’s a “shithole”

        If you think it’s normal for you people to be complete recluses but then to come out in force when someone mentions a shithole like NK you are also an idiot.

        says someone from a weeb instance no-one has ever heard of

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  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah, kind of crazy seeing as only upper class and government officials are even allowed to leave NK. that’s their team, huh?

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• AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s what they do best

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