• chaos@beehaw.org
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    4 days ago

    This is a good point, we should ask some average North Koreans directly, that way we get a better balance of viewpoints. Maybe we can catch some on a vacation abroad or something.

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        11 hours ago

        I’d believe that people are living happy, fulfilling lives there, sure, people usually find a way to do that regardless of their situation. But I’m pretty sure it’s not just propaganda that the same damn family has been in charge for the better part of a century, and that alone is enough for me to conclude that it is a fundamentally broken system that, even if it somehow isn’t as repressive and evil as it’s portrayed, will get there eventually.

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      3 days ago

      You actually can, they usually go to places like China and Russia which they share close trade ties and land bridges with.