Scrounging around for components for their nukes I see…
Why are you all believing this obvious piece of false information?
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No I’m not, that’s why lemmy.ml and hexbear, including its “counterpropaganda” brigading, is on my block list.
I discovered this post from my All feed, not from hexbear, if that’s what you are implying.
I’m actually implying what most people can already deduce from anyone shouting fake news from those instances.
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That Buttigieg looks pretty tasty.
Divorce is considered an anti-socialist act
I would argue it’s quite socialist. Return the pussy to the people.
Gross
Well there goes my dream of eating a hotdog in North Korea.
Well you could eat one in South Korea instead. They love hotdogs there. They have developed some cool new takes on the corndog:
Don’t worry, you can have a hotcat or a hotdonkey
I used to date a girl who liked the hot donkey.
I guess we’re posting The Sun and The New York Post articles now…?
The source is neither, but you can choose your preferred link: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=north+korea+bans+hotdogs
There’s no credible sources in any of this. A ban may or may not have come to pass, and if it has, it’s possible it’s for some health-related reason, similarly to how processed meats have been taken out of school lunches in other countries. The news itself is not necessarily false, but there’s a definitive spin to this as with almost all English-language news on North Korea. Unfortunately it’s hard for any of us to get any objective info on what’s happening in the country.
Or maybe you just don’t want to believe it. China does something akin to this, too:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-24/chinas-government-is-cracking-down-on-christmas-festivals/10666798 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/shanghai-puts-stop-spooky-season-rcna177545
The fact is that these authoritarian states don’t want the possibility of any cultural mingling between societies, each has to be as alien as the other for the bubbles of ideology to sustain themselves. That makes it easy to vilify the other.
Maybe. And apparently you really want to believe it. Not saying it’s necessarily true or false, just that the people complaining on this thread make some valid points. We do after all like to vilify China/NK on this side of the fence. Vilification goes both ways ;)
I read a dictator making shitty lost in a country with a long list of shitty laws in my news feed, I don’t have a problem believing it. He’s done worse, it’s a Google search away. It also isn’t that different from things China or Russia have done to try to prevent cultures intermingling at home. Lemmy shows its hidden face when for a rather unremarkable but somewhat entertaining piece of news it immediately gets posted to a Marxist Leninist community to brigade.
The bias on Lemmy is to defend China and Russia, even this thread was almost immediately reported to a brigading Marxist Leninist community almost the moment it was created on hexbear, never mind the Lemmy bias on the matter. It just so happens that some things require more mental gymnastics than reality can tolerate, specially when the propaganda usually used to criticize can also be applied to the side they don’t want criticized. There would be no issue if this was a Biden or Trump article, and they are far from dictators. There is no problem with vilifying leaders - unless it involved those in the Marxist Leninist pantheon, apparently.
You just need to move the hyphen:
Kim Jung un-bans hotdogs for North Koreans
That’s actually what I read the first time.
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So… like a day later I’m seeing the headline again after having previously read your comment, and now that’s how I read it.
Can’t imagine they import them. Just don’t make them then.
I really want to balance a tea set on his hair. So flat.
“I know you are all starving, but I’m going to ban some more food.”
Hot dogs are reserved for Dear Leader
He looked at his fingers and thought “I hope no one eats these. I better do something about that.”
And stuff my face so full I’ll die because of it.
If only…
Post was falsely reported as “tabloid” and erroneously removed.
Restored:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-zealand-herald/
High Credibility sources should never be removed.
Hey mate, the original source isn’t the NZ Herald but The Sun. I did a little extra digging for another related post (because the mod got my knickers in a twist) which I’ll copy below. Do with it what you will, I’m rather over hot dogs.
The Sun, a tabloid rag with a history of false reporting, is the only original reporting. The other outlets are parroting them, some without attribution by simply stating “according to reports” like the above linked NZ Herald, or indirectly by attributing to a report which attributes it to another and so on, until it ultimately gets back to The Sun, like in this India Times article.
NYT: “Dictator Kim Jong Un has declared that serving the sausage was an act of treason, The Sun reports…”
Vice: “One thing to keep in mind about this report is that you have to take it with a grain of salt. It originates from The Sun, a tabloid that doesn’t have a ton of credibility.” -Emphasis mine because it’s funny-
The Mirror: . “One vendor, who is based in the northern province of Ryanggang, stressed that authorities have been monitoring them closely. The vendor told The Sun…”
The Sun is definitely a rag, but I don’t see anything here pointing to the Sun as a source. The only other source listed is Radio Free Asia (RFA).
The three quoted and linked articles directly state The Sun is the source of this information. Each relevant statement is in the quoted text I included in the comment, which can be verified at each link. The Vice article not only states The Sun is the source, it goes on to criticize them for being a rag, as quoted.
Radio Free Asia is the source of the bit about other foods being banned, not hot dogs. I have no issues there.
Let me be clear, there’s nothing in the NZ Herald reporting indicating they are using the Sun as a source.
They DO cite RFA, but they do not cite the Sun.
As the NZ Herald is a trusted source, the post is allowed to stand.
I’m not taking down a story because “well Vice says…” Vice isn’t at play here.
That’s fair, I appreciate the clarification.
They are gross anyways.
Hey Kim:
What is this movie? I want to see it now.
It’s from the Game of Thrones series, that’s Ramsey Bolton taunting Theon Greyjoy, and you want to stop watching it quite some while before the final season as the show runners can’t write for shit and GRR Martin hasn’t finished the actual story yet. The beginning is great, though. And so is, so far, House of Dragons, at least for that one the story is finished as it’s a prequel so I’m quite confident it’s not going to turn into a total disaster.
His books are non finished too and adventures (interesting intrigue and all, what is going to gappen??) gets thrown under the bus like “everyone died” (so all that build up was just fluff) of “50 years later” etc.
I can’t understand who likes his books if they haven’t like read all other fantasy books first and just don’t have the choice.
Edit: fantasy, not sf
He’s a damn good author, that’s why. Only read the Song of Ice and Fire books so far, and I’m also going to read the rest… if they ever get finished.
And, yes, I’ve read literally all of Asimov, both Herberts, and am somewhat confused what science fiction has to do with SOIAF. Somehow completely missed cyberpunk but I guess by now it’s too late, I’ve read The Diamond Age, fuck transhumanist dystopia we don’t need the transhumanism for that. Still have catch-up to do on the Culture series.
Fantasy not sf, thanks.
Thanks!
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