it's missing the words "authoritarian" and "dictator" lol
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and now you spend all day penned up and eating feed and wondering what happened to your favorite being who disspeared yesterday. lol
the reality is that another effectively 2 party system at the united state's southern border went third party in almost 10 years ago and things got better.
it's odd that you dismiss a political voting system change that literally happened in the real world within our lifetimes; but advocate for another shift that has never been permitted by a political duopoly.
your school sounds lit; i wish i had gone. lol
stay away from canned soylent green. lol
are yellow ribbons significant somehow?
the lesser evil in this last election still meant doing a genocide.
TIL i do women things. lol
anything that forces you to question the status quo will prod you into questioning other things.
for me, it's being queer; brown; and on the spectrum, which are all things that get you frequent rejection from almost all status-quo-loving groups of people.
i love how they used the old kissinger monotone & appearance and i REALLY miss the venture bros.
exactly, ike this one from @Sanctus@lemmy.world :
Ah yis, the CIA knows nothing same as any other westoid. But you, dear OP, you know the DPRK so well. You can totally tell when Burgerland tells a fantasy about The Good Place Cause You Like It.
part of me wishes i hadn't read through this because the way you're taught to read-between-the-lines in any literature in the west combined with the american narrative of chinese authoritarianism that all of us have been swallowing since birth makes some of the wording read like copy-pastes from some propaganda that you would expect to encounter from a dystopian novel like 1984.
these in particular are cringe worthy::
the entire basis of 60,000 people willing taking in a lecture from government officials also sounds suspicious AF to westerners. we popular regard anyone willingly doing so as subversively intellectual or socially bizarre in some way because it's assumed that any "normal person" would naturally rather pursue something more entertaining if they're not coerced to do so otherwise.
this is a bit of cultural double standard because all western cultures universally regard these sorts of lectures as fundamental and important; but at the same time we popularly only expect people with an agenda or "odd balls" to engage with it willingly.
it's pretty clear to me that there's a cultural disconnect between westerners and the chinese; with the latter exhibiting cultural norms so lofty that westerners regard it as unrealistic or unachievable and that makes the entire episode seem suspicious to us and now i think i can now understand how the "Uyghur genocide" propaganda took root.