It might be helpful to the survey to include a y/n so they don’t need to guess whether you are a dom or a sub in that situation
GarbageShoot [he/him]
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161·2 months agoThe only thing it’s useful for is an approximate answer to the question “Who does the Economist Group want to lionize?”
but works alot more like the type of socialism that’s common in Europe.
i.e. not the socialism of Marx
but I still think the Nordic countries are what most people would refere to as at least a little bit socialist.
If you ignore that country with 1.4 billion people and a few others, i.e. the majority of country calling their countries socialist.
Maybe the proper term is social democratic?
Yes, that is the proper term
Only one of those four is white, and it’s a classic reactionary tactic to downplay him compared to the Georgian and the older Han Chinese example
Because authority carried out under the pretenses of private property is whitewashed in liberal states, who are the ones in your question doing the “considering”.
Always neat to see another fan of CSB/Woolie around. I haven’t seen your instance name before, at least that I can remember.
Main one worth sharing is Blowback. The rest are comedy slop.
15·3 months agoShould be pretty doable if you keep a little packet of seeds on your person
Bear witness to the sickest shot while suckers get romantic
They ain’t gonna send us campin’ like they did my man Fred Hampton
Still we lampin’, still clockin’ dirt for our sweat
A ballot’s dead, so a bullet’s what I get
A thousand years they had the tools, we should be takin’ 'em
Fuck the G-ride, I want the machines that are makin’ 'em
81·3 months agoUnfortunately for your ideology, most Chinese people support their government:
https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf
How do you reconcile this? Shall we trot out some paternalisms about “brainwashing” next?
Do you have anything but the most condescending and one-sided “solidarity” for a people who support their government?
Were the trade unionists the ones immolating unarmed soldiers and stringing up their corpses?
see Tienamin Square
I’m looking it up, and I don’t see any “Tienanmin Square”. Could it be “Tiananmen Square” that you’re thinking of? The one protesting government corruption? Where unarmed soldiers were burned alive? Where Christian sickos were trying to get students in the line of fire to create atrocity propaganda? Surely there must be some confusion here!
I can’t quite tell if this is a parody, the trade union bit makes it seem sincere, but the self-importance to think that lemmy is too left for China to allow is just amazing.
sometimes questionable moderation
That’s one way of putting it. Another way is “ramrodding the narratives of anglo chauvinists that are to the right of even the neoliberal historical consensus”.
6·5 months agoIf that was adequate to explain Youtube’s decision-making, the platform would be unrecognizably different for all of the terrible things Youtube didn’t do because it would be – and indeed was – terrible
Security through obscurity is a notoriously sophomoric strategy that won’t keep out a dedicated attacker
That and some major proprietary software has had built-in backdoors for decades at this point, I’m pretty sure (I think this is more of a Windows than an Apple thing, but Apple has its own issues)
The DPRK is in an unusual and tenuous position, and there is very little that can be usefully gained from speculation that doesn’t involve considering that. At the same time as trying to develop a [dictatorship of the proletariat/highly unusual set of political economic arrangements], they bear constant acts of sabotage from the South and the US that are at times extraordinarily depraved, have endured sanctions for decades, and suffered from regional poverty since long before the WPK took over, all the more so after the US bombed them back into the stone age.
Given this context, and probably also the Otto Warmbier incident, we can begin to understand why they would be vigilant – some would say hypervigilant – towards various security issues, and don’t want some jackass tourist going rogue and causing an international incident. Since they never made a ton of money from tourism – especially discounting Chinese tourism – sacrificing some level of profitability to their tourism industry to keep tourists on a short leash and prevent incidents isn’t so inexplicable.
Complete aside, what nationality is your tourist friend? I assume not American because – due to US passport law – it is very difficult for a US citizen to gain access to the DPRK since the Warmbier incident.
Of course the DPRK is strange, even its most ardent supporters would tell you so, but the fact of the matter is that what westerners think about the DPRK isn’t “The DPRK is weird”, it’s “This is a completely backwards place with absurd laws and propaganda which considers human life worthless,” right? “State propaganda says the Kims don’t shit and Kim Il-Sung invented the hamburger. Kim Jong-Un had his uncle eaten alive by dogs for being rude to him. The rats eat the kids and the kids eat the rats.” etc. My biggest point of emphasis is that every one of those stories, which have agglomerated together to create the hazy cultural consensus that I mentioned, is unambiguously false and you have very little left that you’ve ever actually seen about the DPRK if you subtract all of that.
Here are some things to look at if you like. Obviously I would not tell you to take anything uncritically and I have my own issues with things here and there. I’d be happy to discuss any of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V4Hnl7J9H4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBqeC8ihsO8
And of course, you can actually look at statements that they put out:
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/5a9ffe6e4d6704ac1838b14785365295.kcmsf
Or the fact that the Korea-watching industry is just completely shameless about putting out the most harebrained nonsense with very little pushback (including things that don’t make it to the headlines), which really does not lend credibility to the idea of serious-minded criticism of the DPRK having any strong presence in anglophone media and therefore anglophone culture. On this point, because it is a “death by a thousand cuts” situation, it’s really just a question of how many examples you want.
You Ain’t Been Doing Nothing If You Ain’t Been Called A Red