• Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      lot of those shows are funded by libertarian think tanks that pay their guests at a ratio of more money for more ridiculous stories. Which is why you hear of horror stories of things like "I was born in a concentration camp and was raised as a literal animal not understanding speech or words", or "My mother gave birth to me on a bed of concrete rubble, rebar, and glass shards"

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah. The Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang documentary really blows the lid on that sham industry. One television producer told a woman that her defection story wasn't fantastical enough to air, so they offered her a script.

      • Oni [any,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        You can track certain defectors stories and see how they grow more and more harrowing, insane, and contradictory over time, exact same thing with """Xinjiang survivor""" testimonies too.