TheObviousSolution @ TheObviousSolution @lemm.ee

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Thank you for virtue signalling appropriately.

This is so obviously bs

Only in your brainwashed circles bud. 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. A lot of European societies are largely atheist now, and they still celebrate Christmas, it's about sharing and enjoying culture festivities versus preventing cultural dissemination, at least bidirectionally.

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.

I see that you can't really prove its false, it just seems strange to you so it must not be true.

No I'm not, that's why lemmy.ml and hexbear, including its "counterpropaganda" brigading, is on my block list.

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.

You are aware that different countries eat different foods and just because hotdogs have become popular in South Korea doesn't mean they are that popular in North Korea, right? You are aware that this isn't that different to what China tried to do, which was to try to ban Christmas, right? 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.

Too bad it isn't a lie. That's the thing about dictatorships, they can do whatever the fuck they want.

The source is neither, but you can choose your preferred link: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=north+korea+bans+hotdogs

We in the democratic world are capable of making fun of our crazy leaders, even when there might be a clear bias to that information. Those with an agenda to pander to go crazy eyes when anyone in their ideological bubble godhood pantheon has anything that is near seeming borderline bad appear to be associated to them.

If you truly do care whether a despot bans hotdogs for their citizens as a matter of "truth" and "credibility", it truly must be a slow day and for a weighted agenda. At least the downvote list for that comment should be useful to instance admins, but it's fairly obvious why cough cough cross-posted to: counterpropaganda@hexbear.net (see profile)

Must be a slow day and a weighted agenda for someone to care. 🙄

When Kim Jong-un goes on a diet, everyone goes on a diet!

They do have to, we are literally living the era of Cambridge Analyticas and troll factories that proves why. Imagine tying your phone number to Twitter's app just to be classified as a troublemaker and persecuted in things like job searches just for disagreeing with Musk, it's closer to reality than you think.

The big imaginary arbiter is going to drop down from the sky, any day now.

What I like is the speech Kamela gave afterwards about fighting for your rights. Do you even see yourself, "democrats", and what you have become!? I'll be proven wrong if "democracy", or what passes for it in the current oligarchy, manages to survive a Trump presidency. I don't think I will be, I think this is really it.

If our governments are unable to punish this, they are already worthless.

Honestly, they've basically shitted on the intent of the GDPR last year when they started allowing sites to block users who did not choose to allow personalized ads as long as they had a "paid" alternative very few people are actually going to use. It was a perversion of what Google did, which was entirely different since they still allowed people to disable personalized ads and accept generic ads instead.

X/Twitter is a misinformation platform. If you know a major influencer that uses, consider informing and directing them to the ActivityPub alternatives, even advertising on their platforms if you can.

Sadly, because of the US's imperial nature, it's not just going to affect them.

It only has one weakness, you just have to ask it which distro.