What does that have to do with my comment about the north Korean refugees in South Korea? Literally nothing. Stay on topic.
It’s a thought-terminating cliché and shows you have no idea what you’re talking about. You’re just a knee-jerk reactionary who can’t read or think for yourself
You are either willfully misrepresenting or have no media literacy-- liar or idiot. Which will you cop to?
Nobody described a conspiracy. I described the actual situation on the ground for the NK refugees and also brought a news article.
Your response was “herp-derp horshoe conspiracy”.
Please address my points or stop replying 🤷🏻♀️
“horseshoe theory” is another thought-terminating cliché
OK so you will just rely on thought-terminating cliché to go through life. Nice
Why don’t you directly address my points instead?
Actually this is somewhat true.
People who escape North Korea have zero prospects here in the ROK where I currently live. It’s the most competitive economy and job market you can imagine.
Defectors have no professional certifications, no college degree, and no plastic surgery (pervasive in ROK where a photo is required to add to your CV).
Moreover, ROK people are highly judgmental toward anybody different. North Koreans “talk funny” so they are immediately outcast.
(Recently, to address the situation, the ROK government has started a program to get NK refugees jobs as bus drivers)
The best way for these refugees to make money is to tell their stories. And the more sensational, the better. They get speaking gigs, book deals, and small fame with their faces on TV.
Here’s a news story addressing its directly: Why do North Korean defector testimonies so often fall apart? | North Korea | The Guardian https://share.google/fqpw81A1uZwXk0lR7
TL;DR NK refugees are “paid actors” in a sense
Stainless steel cookware. Spend the extra money to avoid shitty non-stick and aluminum. Steel heats evenly and maintains temperature. My food has improved a lot just with this change
Related: a good knife. Get a good santoku and you’ll be prepared for the vast majority of kitchen tasks.
American politicians face zero accountability. It’s a time-honored tradition
Real question: Is this even true?
If it’s true, how true is it? Who actually receives those punishment? For what crimes?
People always say this to but I don’t think it’s even true, or misrepresents greatly the situation.
North Korea was the better place to live until the collapse of the USSR and mid-90s famine. That’s not up for debate. Their living standard and quality of life were overall much higher than ROK thanks to Russian subsidies.
North Korea has far less farmland than the ROK, which has many more river valleys and warmer latitudes. North Korea also lacks trading partners due to sanctions, while ROK currently imports around 80 percent of its food.
The US and ROK time their military drills specifically to fuck with DPRK’s planting and harvesting seasons, forcing them to divert manpower to defense positions when they need able-bodied men to be on farms.
Given these three points, I think North Korean hunger is almost entirely due to the US and its policies. But nobody likes to hear that the Kims might not be horrible monsters
I live near one of the uncovered mass graves. They put a hauntingly beautiful memorial over it.
The Kims never killed 30 thousand people in a few days
Flood them with signal so that it’s all noise
Do people really have to scan an ID to us Discord?
You already know, I promise
I’d heard his name but had no idea who he was.
I looked him up and was like “I gotta join in the pile-on”
Really, I’m here for the spectacle and it’s too rich that this dude spouting gun nut nonsense took a shot to his neck. I don’t care if he lived or died, I don’t celebrate gun violence, I wish I lived in a different kind of society. But I don’t, so I’m gonna laugh
And I’m laughing even harder when conservatives clutch their pearls and demand that feel bad. Choke on my indifference, you fucking phony chuds
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Exactly this!
They’re pretending it’s AI, or cryptocurrency, but neither has any use case that anybody wants or needs aside from money laundering and homework cheating
I gave him an article and he still hems and haws because he is full of shit