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@ Ferrous @lemmy.ml

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    North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds

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  • they're talking out their ass.

    Yes, which is par for the course.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-korean-defector-testimonies-so-often-fall-apart

    What is behind the inconsistencies?

    Cash payments in return for interviews with North Korean refugees have been standard practice in the field for years.

    Initially, the payment was to cover the cost of meals and local transport, which was approximately $30 in the late 1990s when I first began interviewing in China and South Korea. However, the fees had risen to $200 per hour by the time I attempted to interview people from North Korea in May 2014.

    A government official from the South Korean ministry of unification told me the range of fees could vary wildly, from $50-500 per hour, depending on the quality of information.

    But this practice raises a difficulty: how does the payment change the relation between a researcher and an interviewee, and what effect will it have on the story itself?

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  • Kinesin Protein

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  • Making my way downtown

  • So many solutions

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  • You could wipe every reactionary television station, radio station, magazine, social media, and newspaper off the face of the earth, but capitalism's internal contradictions would make their resurgence inevitable.

    So long as wages are suppressed, social safety nets withered, wealth inequality balloons, education decays, retirement age grows, and healthcare becomes unattainable, the backside into fascism is inevitable.

    How do you think fascism took hold in Germany, and how was it mitigated?

    Your analysis falls into the same trap as other liberal analysis - that our means of changing our politics is a function of "changing people's minds" in "the marketplace of ideas". Liberal analysis champions the notion that "ideas" are what turn the wheels of history. In reality, it was Soviet T34s blasting Nazis into mist that mitigated German fascism - not some completely unachievable and unpragmatic scheme to break into retirement homes across the country and put parental controls on grandpa's favorite flavor of right wing pundit TV.

  • The Mouse meets The Beast

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  • Cuteness and clever

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  • Who here has played battle cats?

  • Putin and Xi brainstorm living to 150 with modern organ transplants

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  • Dog.....

    My original claim was that in none of these articles is there any evidence of Putin or Xi expressing interesting in extending their lifespan.

    It's a claim you still have yet to disprove, btw.

    Claiming that Russia is not technologically advanced is a nonsequiter. Refusing to engage with a nonsequiter is not underhanded. And you're not humouring anyone by backing down from your attempt to turn this conversation into one about Russia's technological capabilities. You're just backpedaling.

    Again, please show me where Putin or Xi expressed interest in extending their lives.

  • Putin and Xi brainstorm living to 150 with modern organ transplants

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  • Not even remotely related to the part I quoted and laughed at, but I'll humour you

    So how does a claim regarding Russia's technological capabilities relate to my original comment? The only person being humoured here is you.

    The way the healthy skepticism just leaves the liberal mind once a state department hit pieces comes out is laughable. You have been effortlessly oriented. Yall just eat this shit up. "Deduction"... lmao.

    Again, maybe one day show me where Putin or Xi expressed interest in extending their lifespan. You won't.

  • Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants

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  • Just read your article. Nowhere in it did Xi or Putin express fear of mortality or an interest in extending their personal lifespans.

    All this is is musings on transhumanism.

  • Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants

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  • [mortality] haunt[s] people—especially aging tyrants who fear that the icy hand of death is upon their shoulder and want far more time to ensure both national and personal glory.

    Show me where Xi or Putin expressed fear of mortality. Better yet, show me where Xi or Putin expressed interest in extending their lifespan.

  • Putin and Xi brainstorm living to 150 with modern organ transplants

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  • Show me where Putin or Xi expressed interest in living to 150.

  • Putin and Xi brainstorm living to 150 with modern organ transplants

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  • leaders of two of the world's most technologically prominent countries muse on the prospects of transhumanism in front of a crowd of dozens

    rabid disapproval from liberals who claim that Putin and Xi got caught on a hot mic wanting to live forever so they can rule eternally or something, idk

    Seriously, the reading comprehension is abysmal in this thread. Can someone show me where Putin or Xi said they personally wished to live to 150?

  • Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Venezuelan gang, appeals court rules

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  • Okay, the courts deputize 300 people to go try and compel the executive to follow the law - then what? They accuse Trump with contempt of court, serve him papers, threaten to seize assets, or even arrest him? All of this has been tried before. How do you see this playing out?

    At the heart of the comment you replied to is an implicit claim "a judicial that has nothing other than legal and procedural means is doomed to fail against Trump". And all you've pointed out is that there are various other legal and procedural means they have yet to try. This is the cursed slogan of liberals who've watched Trump piss on every legal proceeding over the past 10+ years.

    Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Until the courts have guns, they're toothless. Trump has subsumed the American legal system.

    This blind faith that our "rugged", "resilient", and "pragmatic" system will somehow automatically course correct and steer us out of this fascist devolution is pure liberalism. The genie is out of the bottle.

  • Anybody else have a cat that will just stare at them? What does he want from me?

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  • Your cat loves you and is trying to understand you. Trying to figure you out.

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    Footage showing the assassination of former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Andriy Parubiy, has surfaced online.

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  • Dbzer0 admin casually defending Uyghur genocide denial because "libs worse", yikes

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  • It's also a textbook case of them trying to psychologize issues that have no business being psychologized.

  • Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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  • Yes... that is not only possible, but likely when n=5....

    Please, the original claim was "Chinese people feel coerced", which is wrong by every metric, and there is no evidence to support this claim.

    Although China is certainly not immune from severe social and economic challenges, there is little evidence to support the idea that the CCP is losing legitima- cy in the eyes of its people. In fact, our survey shows that, across a wide variety of metrics, by 2016 the Chi- nese government was more popular than at any point during the previous two decades. On average, Chinese citizens reported that the government's provision of healthcare, welfare, and other essential public services was far better and more equitable than when the survey began in 2003. Also, in terms of corruption, the drop in satisfaction between 2009 and 2011 was complete- ly erased, and the public appeared generally support- ive of Xi Jinping's widely-publicized anti-corruption campaign. Even on the issue of the environment, where many citizens expressed dissatisfaction, the majority of respondents expected conditions to improve over the next several years. For each of these issues, China's poorer, non-coastal residents expressed equal (if not even greater) confidence in the actions of government than more privileged residents. As such, there was no real sign of burgeoning discontent among China's main demographic groups, casting doubt on the idea that the country was facing a crisis of political legitimacy.

    https://rajawali.hks.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf

    Let me guess: Harvard is tankie?

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  • Again, asking for any type of source or statistic over anecdotes. Your "observations" go against reputable polling and statistics of people in China.

    Was this survey conducted in Taiwan and signed as “China” complying with “one China policy”?

    No.... in fact this was a Harvard study that started off with "Given how China is an authoritarian nightmare, how widespread is support for the government?"

    https://rajawali.hks.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf

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  • They’re in the phase where people are too scared to resist

    Source?