You’ve gotten a bad date for the last eighteen dates because you can’t discriminate between people.

What would you replace it with?

I got the opposite conclusion from how Facebook managed to take marketshare from MySpace. They allowed bots to take content from the other service and it made it easier to switch

I think he locked everything after I started to call him out for posting Jimmy Dore’s antisemitic videos. I’ve since blocked the community.

You’re blocked too

Much of it is due to mismanagement of the economy after the fact. After the Korean war, the government heavily promoted heavy industry at the cost of infrastructure and trying to be self reliant to their own detriment. They used policies to try and feed the people by using as much land as possible to farm. This was a disaster though since they did not follow any sustainability practices. The government would give the land to people who would produce more food and this incentivized poor sustainability.

They invested much more into heavy industry than anything else, for defense reasons. North Korea has one of the largest artillery parks in the world, so much so that if there’s a country that could supply the war in Ukraine, North Korea would likely be it. They prioritized this over the civilian comforts which while there was civil unrest, it would be squashed.

There’s also a whole lot of corruption too and there’s a building that really symbolizes that called the Ryugyong Hotel. It’s a really prominent structure in the Pyongyang skyline and it took decades to build. Much of the aid that the Soviet Union and China sent was wasted. They sent quite a bit too since they were competing with each other for influence.

South Korea also had a lot of issues too when it started out. The whole Korean peninsula was destroyed after the Second World War and Korean war. It had issues with corruption as well and was coup prone. The US also gave generous amounts of aid to the South Koreans, almost the whole government budget at times. South Korea didn’t adopt the self sufficient approach that the North Koreans did and allowed more freedom of thought (though they still practiced strict censorship) In a way, Korea is very much like the Chinese where they rose to prominence due to manufacturing and foreign capital. They largely avoided the incredibly destructive policies that China went through so they rose a lot earlier (A whole different story, look up the Great Leap Forward)

The whole region in the future is going to have issues as they are all aging (except North Korea unless the data is different than reality) That leads to older people who are no longer productive. South Korea is also really dominated by corporations, where Samsung alone controls a ridiculous amount of GDP. North Korea though is a Hermit kingdom like the Hermit kingdom of years past and very few people make it out.

And you just want to mock me. You’re blocked

Sure, but there are vehicles between a Civic and a F-350. Small trucks like the Colorado come to mind, I have an Avalanche, but I don’t use it with its towing capacity ever. The last time I did was a year and a half ago. It would have cost me much less to rent one than the extra fuel it uses. Most people who have big trucks only use their capacity once every few years or never at all. Often times a crossover works better than a truck, as you can fit 2 x 4s, tools, and stuff in the hatch and use its towing capacity to haul a small trailer when you need it. It’s not hauling a backhoe to the job site, but how many backhoes do you need?

Here’s the BBC on that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrYGiwhOuBo

I’m going to follow your suit and fill up my block list. I can’t take this anymore

I mean that’s fair, but what you’re doing is like going into a public library and throwing a rave party. You’re allowed in there, but the people are there for a different reason than you

Did you even read the table of contents? Did you read the part about the unnatural birth rates? Did you read about the complete lack of consistency that “Terrorism” and Extremism" laws have? Did you read about the surveillance state that exists there? The suppression of Uighur culture? The forced disappearances? You’re comparing two things with a magnitude of difference. I can talk about American issues of systemic racism all day, but calling the two equal is exactly as you put it whitewashing the crimes of China by projecting them on to America. The destruction of the American Indian lands happened in the past, but the destruction of Xinjiang and Tibet is happening today. We can do something about it

Using a congregation of users to influence a discussion unrelated to said congregation as a collective as opposed to individual users.

It’s like going to A random Youtube video and making it about the Rape of Nanking

Is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum a good source? https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/countries/china/case-study/current-risks/chinese-persecution-of-the-uyghurs

Or the UN? https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/2022-08-31/22-08-31-final-assesment.pdf

Godwin’s law at work https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/godwins-law

You do realize the only reason why people keep sharing it is because of the Barbra Streisand effect. People loyal to Xi Jinping thought hate it, so people like me share it because it’s funny to see their reaction

You may be in different circles than me. In my circles, it is used to poke fun at Xi Jinping, not the Chinese people. It is a caricature, just as we draw caricature of our own politicians. Despite the CCP’s attempts, Westerners distinguish between race and state. Xi Jinping is not China and China is not Xi Jinping.

It’s theories about how spheres of influence work, that Russia has a right to take over Ukraine, or at least override it politically. Very much similar to Kissinger’s Great power politics in the days of the USSR. It’s somewhat different than the Russian right which is their divine right to Empire, over the Ukrainians and the Poles and Slavic countries in general. The ideologues Ivan Ilyin and Karl Schmidt influence that part. But notably, both parts believe that there’s a place that Russia must dominate in Europe, and that other great powers must not interfere there. Leftists also are influenced by these theories, especially when they remember the reaches of the Iron Curtain far into Central Europe. The USSR had a history of intervening into the politics of its satellite states. Notably in Hungary when there were democratic protests, they sent in tanks to quell the uprising. This theory echoes in 2014 when the Ukrainians changed their government, and Russia invades and annexes Crimea. Many on the far left and far right see the massive protests as creeping American influence that does not belong in the region. They fear NATO expansion as it is a threat to Russia; In the west it’s Russia itself, and in Russia, it’s Russian greatness in Empire.

You realize that this picture originated from Chinese social media right?

I understand if you don’t want to see. It’s very disturbing stuff, and deeply offensive to those who love Xi Jinping thought.