The government restricts citizens access to the Internet (among other things). I have talked to people from Russia, people from China, etc online. But I have never talked to someone from North Korea and that is a pretty big red flag for me.

And how many people from the DPRK have you actually tried to speak to? There are many in China and many in Russia, some as naturalised citizens, not to mention tens of thousands work officially in Africa.

You seem to accept that information about the DPRK is unreliable, but rather than allow this to create a position of neutrality in yourself you seem to instead default to vibes. The problem with defaulting to vibes is that those are specifically what propaganda is effective at manipulating. The vibes about the DPRK that you have are entirely a construction of western media and comment sections.

When I don’t know about something the first thing I do is take myself to the most neutral position possible - “I don’t know”. That is the starting point from which facts should be fed.

Hello @cole@lemdro.id you seem to have conveniently ignored my response?

Does every american have equally valid input on america and its politics?

When the next person says “I know someone from Britain and they said London is a no go zone” should I take them automatically seriously? Should I take their opinion on migrants and small boats seriously or should I maybe do some more serious investigation?

You dated a Korean, so what? Why should anyone take this one person’s take over serious investigation of the matter?

EVERYWHERE has its problems.

And yes, that is the DPRK too.

Sure, I don’t deny that. The issue here is what are they? You don’t know. I’ve actually visited and I could talk about some, but they’d be quite different to what you would talk about I suspect.

I’ve dated a Korean and been to Korea which has influenced me quite a lot.

Koreans in the south typically react with surprise whenever anyone on the left refers to what the US did in Korea as a genocide. Most of them have barely any knowledge of the five “republics” before the existing one, the sixth. Unless your partner was a trade unionist within the ROK I generally wouldn’t trust them to know what they’re talking about, much like I don’t trust the average liberal or magat to know what they’re talking about when it comes to the US, its history of barbarism or how it interacts with the world today. The trade unionists within ROK however do know their shit, I’ve spoken to a few of them and they’re cool comrades (but are legally not allowed to say they are)

if you can’t admit the obvious problems with the DPRK

The problems you’ve only ever absorbed through the lens of extremely dubious western media reporting whose sources for reporting come from either the CIA or NIS(formerly KCIA but renamed to make it less obvious the south is an occupied state) ?

You say “obvious” the same way the Dothraki say “It is known”. You consider this information obvious because a lot of people say it, you never consider whether a lot of people only say it because they too see a lot of other people saying it. You do not know the facts at all.

Calling anyone “insane” is always ableism.

You are using mental illness as an insult.

Just like calling anyone gay as an insult is always homophobic.

At this point nothing will stop me having a visceral negative reaction to AI being added to any product after literally every single other implementation in literally every other product has been annoying fucking dogshit. It could be the best thing ever and I’d still react negatively because I never want to hear the god damn word again.

The “Xinjiang government” is the Communist Party dipshit. Xinjiang is in China.

These pictures are from the CIA. They were posted by Adrian Zenz, he is extremely well known to us. He is a lunatic fundamentalist crank who believes he was placed on this earth by god to fight China. He works for Victims of Communism, which is a CIA outlet that does not hide the fact it was founded by and is funded by the CIA.

Do you have a literacy problem? I have already explained this once already. Did you not understand this information the first time I stated it?

you support the concentration camps?

Do concentration camps let people go home on the weekend? You fucking idiot. The education centers (which no longer exist as they were only used for 1 year to address the problem) were a 5 day weekday program. Attendees returned home on weekends.

Stop getting your information from the fucking cia’s literal propaganda outlets dipshit.

This image is over 3 years old mate. The last of these centers was closed in 2023. You got anything that isn’t horrendously out of date or are you still scraping the barrel of the media produced by the reeducation program that only lasted 1 year before all centers were closed?

EDIT: Lmaoooo source is Adrian Zenz’s twitter account lololololol it’s genuinely fucking hilarious that it takes 2 seconds to discover CIA funded propaganda is the primary source of your brainworms

Anyway, the facilities that made up this program completely deradicalised a region that was receiving islamic extremist terrorist attacks every week which would kill 10-30 people in each attack. They achieved this without killing one single person and without permanently imprisoning anyone. The western approach would have been to bomb them into oblivion. Which approach is obviously better?

Apt way to describe it. They’re telling ghost stories. Tall tales under a upward pointed flashlight.

I genuinely wouldn’t come back after this burn holy shit

I have 4 channels I don’t use that have basically no content on them but are a decade old. Why do you think this shit matters?

At any point in time I might turn them into channels for any kind of content, you will only scream that it’s propaganda if the content I start producing is about China though because you’re a racist. If it’s any other subject that suddenly appears on a 10 year old account you just won’t care.

You think everything is something sinister instead of considering the fact that it’s almost certainly not. Almost anyone here might do the same with old accounts they have, why is that a problem?

Sounds like he’s receiving gifts in return for positive Chinese propaganda.

lmao why the fuck do you think this is necessary when there’s literally hundreds of thousands of marxists who believe in the communist future that would do it for free? You don’t seem to understand communists at all. You’ve so heavily bought into the koolaid of capitalism that you can’t even wrap your head around the idea that communists don’t need monetary incentives to do things to promote communism. “Everyone must be getting paid because getting paid is the only reason anyone does anything!” is the principle contradiction that makes you mis-analyse everything, it’s one of many reasons why capitalists will certainly lose, your belief in capitalism makes you fundamentally misjudge reality. How can you ever hope to win if you can’t analyse reality correctly?

You’re chasing ghosts. Things that do not exist. Ethereal non-existent payments to do communist propaganda. While you’re chasing these ghosts you’re completely failing to counter the real thing going on - that there are hundreds of thousands of us willing to do it for free. You miss this completely and entirely fail to counter it because your belief in capitalism is so complete that you can only imagine someone needing to be paid to do this.

Ironically capitalists can’t ever fix this. Your propaganda itself makes you this way. Your belief in capitalism makes you this way. If you didn’t believe in the fact everyone needs monetary incentives to do anything then you wouldn’t be capitalists at all. It fucking dooms you.

Hexbear existed 2 years before everything else? Fucking wild. This loser’s account is literally 3 years younger than my hexbear account and 2.5 years younger than my Lemmy.ml one and he thinks we’re the late ones?

The only “ruining” I’m doing here is ruining his bullshit fuckoff attempt to associate lgbt and gender with being a corporate thing, it’s fucking nonsensical. Dude deserves to lose teeth.

Eat my ass

If you think I would read this shit after that first sentence you’re a fucking idiot

This is an absolutely garbage take. “Anonymous” defaults to male in everyone’s mind because patriarchy is the basis of our society. Claiming everyone should just be “Anonymous” is a male supremacist and exclusionary of everything else position to take.

2million people were victims of american murderers. The americans like to forget that their foreign policy and behaviour of their military is basically identical to the IDF.

AI you can trust

Lost me there

Easily summarize emails

Haha “Give us access to all your emails for data and corporate espionage we pwomise nothing bad will be done with it!”

Has the fastfetch dev ever mentioned why they use the infinity symbol? Don’t want to find out later on that it’s a dogwhistle.

I worked at the server company that previously hosted discord servers (no longer exists) and let me tell you right now that all your conversations were accessible on the server to anyone in the company and completely and totally insecure. Overall security was pretty meh and it wouldn’t be very difficult for anyone who really wanted the information to gain access to anything on your server.

It is not a valid place to store or discuss anything that requires operational security. It is also not a place where customer data should be stored or discussed, in fact you’re also probably breaking gdpr by accident if you ever do so.