QuietCupcake
joined 3 years ago
Glad to help. Truth be told, I got the links myself from someone either on hexbear or lemmygrad. And 
the info might help get through to your colleague, sometimes the "right sources," like from characters in their precious ACU, actually can make an impact.
"Uh sure, I'm not going to question these lies because here is yet another set of lies I already don't question that confirms the first set of lies. Checkmate, commie!" -You
Not to mention the lengths their people have to go to if they want to leave.
Why might they have to go to such lengths? Hmmm...
"Plenty of North Koreans leave and live in China with no problem. The big reason it is so difficult for them to leave in general isn't because they are being held prisoner there by the DPRK government, it's because of restrictions imposed by the US and UN making it impossible for them to live most anywhere else."
"5. North Korean Overseas Workers (OP8): Requires countries to expel all North Korean laborers earning income abroad immediately but no later than 24 months later (end of 2019)."
"Strengthens the ban on providing work authorizations for DPRK nationals by requiring Member States to repatriate all DRPK nationals earning income and all DPRK government safety oversight attachés monitoring DPRK workers abroad within their jurisdiction within 24 months from 22 December 2017."
Meanwhile the DPRK has no official restriction on the people's free movement.
That’s why visitors are heavily monitored and often end up being detained and taken prisoner
People visit there all the fucking time without issue, but you can keep comforting yourself with more lies like that so you don't have to confront reality. You're really proving you have no curiousity and no will to examine your misconceptions. Here's another vid I might have included in my other comment, this one about visiting North Korea. Not that you actually watched or have any intention of watching them, but this one is short and comedic, so maybe even someone with zero interest in intellectual honesty might watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E
Surely the signs of a healthy and stable country.
Yeah, and hellholes like the US have such health and stability that they have the most prisoners in absolute terms and per capita by far where their ethnic minorities are murdered by their militarized police death squads with impunity. And why soldiers from the US are now defecting to North Korea because of the insane racism and oppression they face in the US.
Westerners are the most propagandized people on the planet.
You have been lied to about North Korea. It is simply not the evil dictatorship it's constantly portrayed as. This was a shock to me too when I first started trying to dig into all the things I'd been hearing most of my life about the "hermit kingdom." But if it is something you're remotely interested in understanding, you owe it to yourself to start questioning those lies, which includes questioning the material reasons behind why they are told. Since you posted something from a "defector" below, that's an excellent place to start asking questions about the veracity of claims made by defectors and understanding the industry they are incentivized to participate in (often to the point of having no other options).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V4Hnl7J9H4 Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul - "A documentary on the world of defectors and South Korean Intelligence"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDXxXYFweTs What's the Deal with Defectors? - shorter video essay that covers the basics.
If you like podcasts, I'd recommend Blowback. Any of their 4 seasons are excellent, but season 3 is about the Korean war and its consequences.
Damn, whatever it is they said, the comment was too spicy even for the modlog. 
I guess the post must have been deleted. I see from your comments on your American_Communist22 lemmygrad account that the post is a lemmy.world post, but even going to .world, that post doesn't show up. Thanks for the info anyway.
edit: yep, it's in their modlog. Reason was the source is biased.
lol, I actually found your lemmygrad account while trying to figure this out. I've run into problems like this before where stuff is invisible from one instance but not another, even though it should be because the instances are federated. But yeah, anyone reading this post, I mean the hexbear news mega, from their lemmygrad account can't see this thread/you at all.
Anyway, I'm still not sure what the post is you linked to (this url: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2267148 gives the post not found error). Is it the lemmy.ml one titled "Hmmmm" or the lemmy.world one titled "34 Palestinian children killed this year alone by Israeli forces"?
When I follow your link, I get a "couldnt_find_post" error. Did they nuke it? I even logged into a lemmygrad account and couldn't find the post.
It's beside the point, but in trying to find it, I went to your hexbear account page ( https://lemmygrad.ml/u/[email protected] ) from lemmygrad, and your newest comment is 2 months old. Which doesn't make sense because I'm replying to a comment you made with that account only 2 hours ago. I can't see any of your recent comments when I'm logged into lemmygrad. I don't get it.
I don't know how it fits in with your breakdown, but I'm seeing around 95% 
If you don't mind me asking, roughly when and how did you become a commie? If it has been a while, would you say your political tendencies have changed or evolved much over that time?
Just curious. 
Great resource on Xinjiang here, including lots of specifics about Zenz and his blatant lies.
I was going to say to thank @[email protected] for putting that site together, but it looks like they wiped their account recently. 
EDIT: There's lots more in this resource list post made by @[email protected] and the comments there.
So is it bad form, or breaking rules to tag users from the other thread about this that got locked? Because I'd kinda like to see what they have to say about this. For the record I think murdering kids is bad and counterproductive to revolution. Which puts me in agreement with OP if I'm reading this right.