okay so how do you defend your boys and Stalin? I'm curious because as a historian it's very hard to praise them

    • invo_rt [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Park is so full of shit. She was peddling some shit about the DPRK not having ice cream or desserts. It took me 5 seconds to look up a video of someone visiting and buying ice cream from a street vendor there.

      • RandyLahey [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        lol. the other comment from that persons twitter too:

        Still laughing abt N Korean defector Yeonmi Park on Jordan Peterson's show claiming children there resort to eating rats, then die from eating rats, then rats eat their carcasses, thus continuing a never-ending cycle of rats & children eating each other.🇺🇸propaganda has no chill!

        • MerryChristmas [any]
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          3 years ago

          Well if you don't have rats, how do you get rid of the kids? And if you don't have kids, what do you feed the rats? A real catch-22.

        • ToastGhost [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          pretty sure thats not how conservation of energy works, also you would end up with shitloads of heavy metal accumulation as every step up the food chain the concentrations of stuff like mercury increase, making the food chain a circle would probably spiral that out of control.

      • Weedian [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        She said she had to cross several mountains to escape into China from DPRK but the place they left from has no mountains between it and China

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That's literally a hexbear shitpost and she gets paid millions to say it unironically :sadness:

      • RandyLahey [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        lol, found a longer bit of the relevant clip

        edit: after she talks about how theres only one train and one station she then immediately starts talking about how all the train stations all have piles of bodies next to them

        she starts talking a bit later about a boy who was so malnourished that his organs and intestines started hanging out of holes in his body because thats just what happens when youre really malnourished but he was still alive and begging for food and this was so normal that she felt nothing

        and at the hospital they only have one needle that they use to inject all the patients, and they dont have an indoor toilet so the patients have to go out the back and poop outside next to the big pile of dead human bodies that have rats eating their eyes and children chasing the rats to eat

        and in earthquakes they all run inside to their kitchen so they can die with food in their stomach

        • Parent [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          This all sounds like some old wives' tale or urban myth that parents tell their kids to behave like Hansel and Gretel. I can just imagine a kid whining on a long trip and their mom saying that they're lucky they don't have to push a train like in North Korea.

        • BeamBrain [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          And of course the comments are all eating that shit up

    • ToastGhost [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      for the train to completely stop, it has to slow down halfway, but before the train can slow down halfway it must slow down a quarter of its speed, etc etc... will the train ever arrive at pyongyang station?

      • panopticon [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Say you've got four trains on the edge of a cliff. A fifth train is placed in the line of trains, and it pushes them towards the cliff. The first train, the one nearest to the cliff, falls off the cliff and the new train takes the place of the fourth train at the other end of the line.

        Time works the same way.

        • ToastGhost [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          US tabloids: kim jong un orders crowds of people into a train and drives it off a cliff every morning to keep time flowing in the country

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      Yeonmi Park claiming recently that people are forbidden from loving their mothers. Or that Kim Jong Un gathered every musician in North Korea together and then shot a conductor on stage 80 times.