Some of these people’s brains have been so thoroughly melted by neoliberalism that if they sit still for long enough their brain goop leaks out of their ears and pools around their feet.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Shit like this is why tech is never going to save us from climate change. If it's got a price tag attached to it it's not going to benefit humanity at large.

    • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Tech under capitalism won't save us from climate change. Technology under socialism might work better.

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yup. I think that tech under socialism would save the world and humans would merge with machines and we'd be all FALGSC but under capital? Elon will turn your heart off for saying Tesla's are stupid.

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Uncritical support to the DPRK in the fight against monopolic patents :kim-salute:

  • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I'm really disappointed nobody leaked vaccine IP, or deliberately gave it to foreign countries. Fucking hell y'all took hippocratic oaths or whatever do the right fucking thing

    • opposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      You can save all people from the trolly tracks at any time but you also have to save people in the DPRK. Do you do it?

  • cilantrofellow [any]
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    4 years ago

    Most of the top comments are at least sane and the people that aren’t are getting dunked on.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    4 years ago

    This will certainly, uh, [checks notes] reduce Pfizer's profitability in the DPRK

  • MichelLouise [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Now I don't really want to start a DPRK struggle session but I feel like I have to: 0 cases?

    Come on.

    0 cases?

    • opposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Who cares how many cases they have if they’re doing all they can? Not like the wealthy western nations would help though I think the DPRK saying they have 0 cases is a closer number to reality than the amount of cases the US is reporting to its actual number

      • MichelLouise [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, I agree with all of that. They indeed do not expect any one in the west to believe them, or to care about it. They indeed probably do not have that many cases. But, precisely, if it does not matter, then why not say the actual number? Or even just not say anything? So I have to deduce that it's meant as a message for the population? It does not say anything about how well or bad they handle the actual cases. But come on it just unironically make them look like something directly taken from a communism-is-when-propaganda Orwell book.

          • MichelLouise [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            which I can’t confirm if they are, tbf

            Then I'd genuinely be curious to know more about this. You mean that they're telling us they do not have any case while they secretly update their population on the actual situation? Because as I said above, for me it was obvious that it was not a communication meant for the rest of the world, but then that it logically had to be internal propaganda.

            For the rest (taking proper steps), I'm not saying anything. Just talking about the number of cases and communication here.

            EDIT:

            Unless they report that their entire country is crumbling under the pandemic, it’s going to get twisted into propoganda anyway.

            Wrong: even it that case it would btw.

            • opposide [none/use name]
              hexagon
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              4 years ago

              But why communicate that with the outside world? It doesn’t serve any purpose because even if the entire country had Covid the majority of the world would sit back and happily watch the DPRK crumble.

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      There aren't a lot of flows of people and goods in or out of DPRK. When the virus broke out, they reduced those flows even more to protect themselves.

      Why do you think they must have cases? Vietnam is much more internationally connected than DPRK and Vietnam reports only 2.3k. Taiwan <1k.

      Is it so unbelievable that a much much less internationally connected state could have 0 cases?

      • MichelLouise [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Counterpoint: Greenland, Antarctic, Easter Island, ... all got at least 1 detected case.

  • acealeam [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    also its possible they have 0 cases and still want a vaccine for a deadly disease. wow, i guess liberals aren't great at this pandemic preparation, who knew?

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    There are two tracks. One has millions of people tied to it, the other has nobody. You can switch the trolley onto the empty track at any time, but that would require stealing Pfizer's patented switch technology, therefore those millions deserve to die.

  • wombat [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire