• KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Calling it now: some random BBC caster gets blacklisted and castigated in the media for months for laughing at something within a week of the queen's death, and sitting MPs call for them to be executed over it.

    • Duckduck [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      The BBC protected pedophiles. The lot of them can be blacklisted and the world would be a better place. Here's how to stop supporting them:

      1. Follow this link to declare you no longer need a license. https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/no-licence-needed/about.app

      2. Cancel your direct debit.

      3. Defund the BBC. Don't fund pedophiles.

  • eXAt [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Looked at the :reddit-logo: thread for this, maybe slightly more than half of top comments correctly calljng this bullshit. Sorted by new and saw 3 comments in the last 20 wishing for the freedom of the… Chinese people from this oppressive dictatorship.

    Do that many people think China and Korea are the same place?

      • Omega_Haxors [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        There's only so many times you can repeat the same lie before people catch on.

        • AncomCosmonaut [he/him,any]
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          3 years ago

          You would think, but there's the counter adage to that that if you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes believable. And looking around it sure as fuck seems like the latter is more accurate.

          E.g.: Capitalism good, communism bad. How often has that lie been repeated in the imperial core, and has that repetition led to the catching-on of the truth? Imo, it's the context that makes all the difference, and I wonder what the specific context is if :reddit-logo: really is improving on China. Personally, I'm skeptical that it is, and feel like it's getting worse because much of the pushback that used to exist (like say a certain notorious leftist sub) is getting purged by the three-letter agency and capitalist owners of the platform.

      • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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        3 years ago

        twitter too

        more and more left-leaning libs in my twitter sphere are catching on to how stupid some of the lies being spread are, and how hilariously onesided the reporting is

  • Rem [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I have a friend who has believed every "KJU is dead" story for the past eight years. Every time I tell him "we've had this conversation so many times before! What makes this time different?" but he insists this time it's real. Propaganda is wack.

    • TeethOrCoat [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Propaganda is wack.

      You're right but a case like this is pretty much just racism. Once, I could maybe chalk it up to propaganda. After repeated debunkings and lack of evidence, it's a bad faith actor or confirmation bias.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I remember in 2011-2013 Reddit thinking we're on the verge of WWIII literally every time the exact same set of headlines got ran. The explanation I accepted was NK is looking for aid, but now I'm pretty sure it's just the media not having other stories to run and deciding to portray the status quo as aggression.

  • glk [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    The 2 Koreas were discussing peace. So of obviously RFA is pumping out stories to rile up war sentiment.

    • Mother [any]
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      3 years ago

      They’d fucking better not :kim-jong-il:

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    There are a shitton of even yanks that understand korean, none of them find weird the non-existence of any proof about shit like this?

    • LibsEatPoop3 [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      The fact that its on a news channel is all the proof people need.

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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    3 years ago

    No everything has to be serious at all times and we cannot find any humor in the absurdity of hell world.

    The last time I smiled was on August 19th, 1991.

    I wear a dirty ushanka at all times, do not shave, and only take cold sponge baths because hot running water is bourgeoisie decadence.

    Every day at exactly noon I have the same meal of an expired Maoist MRE I store in a pit covered in old issues of a revolutionary newspaper.

    I sleep in a bed made of flags from every failed revolution so that they are never forgotten.

    In the evenings I stare at a picture of vodka by candlelight, but I do not allow myself to drink because there is nothing to celebrate.

    Every local org has banned me after I attempted to split it by assassinating the leadership.

    There is no plumbing in my house I shit in a brass bucket with a picture of Gonzalo and Deng french kissing in the bottom of it.

    My house is actually an overturned T34 in an abandoned junkyard in Wisconsin.

    I have a single friend in this world and it is a tapeworm named Bordiga that I met after ingesting spoiled borscht on 9/11 in the ruins of building 7 (I blew it up after finding that a nominally leftist NGO inside of it wasn’t sufficiently anti-imperialist, the attacks on the world trade center were a perfect revolutionary moment for me to enact direct praxis against liberalism).

    My source of income is various MLM schemes in the former soviet bloc that have been running for so long no one remembers who I am, they just keep sending money.

    I have not paid taxes since McGovern lost the Democratic nomination for president and my faith in electoralism died more brutally than my childhood dog after it got into an entire jar of tylenol.

    I own 29 fully automatic rusted kalashnikovs and three crates of ammunition entirely incompatible with them or any other firearms I own.

    My double PHD in marxist economics and 18th century Swiss philosophy (required to understand Engels) sits over the fireplace of my home, my fireplace is a salvaged drum from a 1950s washing machine that was recalled for locking children inside of it.

    I chose that washing machine model on purpose because I am anti-natalist.

    During the latest BLM protests I firebombed a Nikes outlet in the middle of a peaceful candlelit vigil.

    William F Buckley and I wrote hatemail to one another for 47 years until my final letter gave him an aneurysm. The only water I drink is from puddles.

    George Lucas and I dropped acid together during an MKULTRA southern baptist summer camp and he went on to write the movie Willow about our time together.

    The best way to test whether an electrical wire is live is to drool on it and shrimp salad is racist. You can make an IED out of potassium and the instructions are online thanks to Timothy McVey, who was actually a committed antifascist communist slandered by the deep state as part of operation condor.

    Every time a liberal files a restraining order against me, I carve a mark into the wall.

    I am running out of walls.

    When Amerika finally collapses I will be ready to lead the revolution.

    I am very smart and people like being around me.

    -Kim jong un

  • 1heCream [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    this is the most leftist action any one has ever done. NO FUN ALLOWED