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[–] 48 points 2 days ago (4 children)

In North Korea the government makes phone calls to ask if refrigerator is running, but refrigerator is empty with no food and phone is made of string and tin can and the tin can is also empty with no food, so you eat the string.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    I don't get it. Is she the string? Did you attach the correct image? Can anyone explain the image?

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  • [–] 7 points 9 hours ago* (2 children)

    This is Yeonmi Park, a "celebrity defector" from the DPRK who has since worked with the Rogan sphere and the Daily Wire bunch, showing up to make insane and easily debunked claims about people in northern Korea like "They have to push the trains by hand" and "In north Korea they have no word for love." I'm not making those up to be funny, she said that.

    So anyway, this image of her on Rogan became a running joke anytime someone says something insane about a socialist country, and then it evolved. Now people also post it whenever news comes out of America that's so ridiculous and evil it sounds like the kind of thing that America would make up about a socialist country. It's a very versatile meme

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago

    call me crazy but I bet this is a viral. campaign for the new cod game.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 days ago

    "Those duplicitous evil Asians are not trusting and forthcoming with the representatives of the empire that tried to exterminate them in living memory and still has them under siege how dare they"

    Wikipedia really is a website.

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  • [+] -4 points 2 days ago (19 children)
  • [–] 18 points 2 days ago (18 children)

    There is quite a lot of good news, but you will never see it if you only get your news from imperial core sources, because the imperial core works to manufacture your consent for regime change.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 day ago (17 children)

    Give me a a link to an unbiased non-imperial core source and I will add it to my rss feed right now

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (16 children)

    There is no such thing as an unbiased source, surely you should know this.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 day ago (15 children)

    Yes of course. I would settle for simply a source that isn't vetted by a government before publication

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (14 children)

    Can't imagine why that's your dividing line when the alternative is one vetted by a billionaire exploiter before publication.

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  • [–] 0 points 13 hours ago (13 children)

    It's not a line. I need a combination of multiple sources in order to properly sus out the truth. There is independent journalism. That exists. I don't know if it exists in North Korea, which is why I'm asking for a source to add to my rss feed. Nobody has given me one yet. All I want is a news source so I can stop getting my information from the imperial core, and no one has given me one yet.

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  • [–] 6 points 13 hours ago* (10 children)

    What is "independent journalism," in your view?

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  • [–] 0 points 12 hours ago (9 children)

    Journalism that is free from corporatations, governments, or powerful rich weirdos.

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  • [–] 6 points 12 hours ago (8 children)

    In that case, you're going to be extremely limited. There's plenty of YouTube videos like this one from Boy Boy, but that's going to be the limit if you want neither corporations nor governments. Media is gatekept globally behind deals and limited access.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 hours ago (7 children)

    How can that be possible? There are plenty of news sources here that aren't backed by corporations nor governments. Obviously we have a problem with bias in media globally, but it's not ALL media. I'm more looking for the North Korean equivalent of, like, Counterpunch, Common Dreams, Real News Network, or hell, even Democracy Now.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

    Those are all linked with corporations, though, with few exceptions. The DPRK has a planned economy, the means of production and distribution are socially owned. Thus, "independence" is in reality private ownership. Your decision to distrust socially owned media is more of a personal choice, but there's a lot to learn from it.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

    It's not a distrust of socially owned media, it's a distrust of states. I don't trust any government to give me facts about what's happening in their own country. In a place where people are allowed to independently investigate and publish their own findings or even their own opinions, I can at get an idea of how a variety of common folks I've and feel within their systems. I can't find a source like that for DPRK

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

    Why don't you trust working people to honestly report on their own system? Again, "independence" in this case means "private." You can listen to common people already, that's what socially owned news does, and you can listen to people on the street in videos like the one I linked. You've claimed a point, but I don't see the logical basis for it other than a generic distrust for organizations.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 hours ago* (3 children)

    You can call independent journalism private as an epithet all you want, but I'm still not going to trust North Korean BBC to report truthfully about North Korea the same as I'm not going to trust actual BBC to report truthfully about Britain. States are gonna state.

    The video you linked is a fun watch, but it also starts from a pov assuming that I automatically believe what corporate and state media in the imperial core has told me about the DPRK and I already don't. The first 10 minutes are just talking about the U.S. media talking about NK, then there's less than 1min of footage actually in North Korea, the majority of which is just b-roll, and not a single interview with a Korean, then the rest of the video is just a pretty good discussion about why the kinds of things western countries do and the kinds of things that the DPRK does are just the kinds of things that countries do. Which again, I agree with all of that, but a good discussion.

    What I'm not seeing is any kind of actual North Korean talking about their daily lives, or things they like or dislike about where they live, ways they want to participate, the people in their lives they love, or anything else really.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Why would you put a capitalist state and socialist state at the same level? The state is not outside class struggle, but is a product of class struggle, meaning it has a definite class character.

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