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[–] inkblade@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Western media propaganda is shit.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago (33 children)

The fact that there are multiple people in here believing both because "they were 3 years apart," I don't know whether that's funny or sad.

I know I said gullible was written on the ceiling but that was a second before you looked up, now it's written on the floor. Nope, you missed it again, back to the ceiling.

This is where you really gotta turn to that redsails article to explain how these people's minds work:

In short: Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits.

Western propaganda is better understood in terms of “licensing”: the issuing of moral license for the bourgeois proletariat to profitably go along with bourgeois designs without the feeling of shame overwhelming. In this alternative account people aren’t “brainwashed” insofar as they don’t actually believe the lies, not in the way that we generally understand belief. It’s more correct to say that they go along with them

"But you don't understand, the news man said I have permission to use this to make fun of North Korea. Why are you spoilsports trying to take away my fun?"

Critical thinking doesn't enter into it at all.

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[–] Ithorian@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

LIBs: Two things can be true!

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Liberals: two things can be true at the same time

[–] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are they approaching Dialectical Materialism?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

i doubt that they ever will

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

The first one refers to men. It can be inferred that the second one refers to women.

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Def the second one for me if everyone had to do what I said I'd want them swagged tf out

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I get this is in jest, but the articles are dated 2014 and 2017.

[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago

Haircut policy went through a lot of changes in North Korea in that three years, clearly was a very pressing issue for the country.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

I think the joke is that there are stupid people who believe either are true

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They were required to get that haircut, then 3 years later they were forbidden from getting that haircut?

[–] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Likely misinformation and restrictions from SK along with sensationalization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_North_Korea#Political_bias

I recently learnt about the Korean war and how the USAmerican govt killed approx 20% of NK population, Unit 731 bioweapons and even threatened to nuke NK and China.

Also, about the SK National Security Act which bans positive news coverage on SK, as they are technically still in conflict.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

it's not merely misinformation, it's projection as usual. the only korea where we positively know the state mandated haircuts is, to nobody's surprise, south korea.

[–] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"One of us copied me."

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