Us Tech sucks.

I work with it every day and it's not going better as time pass....

It's going stupider.

So much this!

The first thing to show them is the wikipedia article on north korea media coverage.

It should cause a bit of a cognitive dissonance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_in_media_coverage_of_North_Korea

Here, I even went fishing for the link to help.

Then, there are a lot of tourists who took pictures of north Korea and brought them back.

They are telling.

https://www.ericlafforgue.com/gallery/Countries/North%20Korea

I particularly like eric lafforgue because he took illegal pictures and was simply banned, destroying the myth of getting killed/maimed/whatevered from disrespecting the rules.

The last step is to show theses articlea from what happens daily in South Korea, which most people think is an actual country and not an american subsidiary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_South_Korea

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality_in_South_Korea

And then compare Chaebols with the Kims

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

The conclusion after that is that both Korea are under duress, for completly different reasons.

One is limited in ressources and isolated, with a lot of poweful enemies and few allies.

The other is a feodal state controlled by corporatism and outside interests....

It's the same colonial model, with the same type of results - exploitation of humans and natural resources in a country that can't fight back due to governmental capture or the collaboration of its bourgeoisie. It's pretty well documented, even wikipedia has artciles that didn't get liberalwashed on it.

I'm replying to myself I know but I had to post my two favorite name of canadian mining corporation which are currently destroying the global south:

Conquistador Mines Ltd

Da Capo Resources (today Vista Gold Corporation)

On. The. Nose.

Also this : The Corporate Accountability of Mining, Oil and Gas Corporations in Developing Countries Act, also known as Bill C-300, was defeated in a vote of 140 to 134 in the House of Commons of Canada in October 2010.[56] The Summary of the bill states:

The purpose of this enactment is to promote environmental best practices and to ensure the protection and promotion of international human rights standards in respect of the mining, oil or gas activities of Canadian corporations in developing countries. It also gives the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of International Trade the responsibility to issue guidelines that articulate corporate accountability standards for mining, oil or gas activities and it requires the Ministers to submit an annual report to both Houses of Parliament on the provisions and operation of this Act."[57]

I know Canada is not in any way a social democracy but it's close enough and would still do this if it became one.

Canadian mining industry sure is, look it up! They also have very evil names, it's so on the nose.

I completely agree with that with the caveat is that the racism is integrated so throughouly in the system and in how Canadians interact that it make people think they are not racist.

As a Canadian of first nation decent, let me tell you that it's there, everyday, everywhere, if you just take a few seconds to look for it!

Very depressing thing of the day...

The masses have been divided in the west.

Family links are next to none existant and people are seen as tools to an end.

Individualism made it very easy to make the whole of idea of "organizing" something fringe or hard.

People simply forgot we used to work collaboratively for our own good and welfare and see organizations as a feodal like link, because that's mostly the reality of the westerner.

For sure, the republicans are worst.

But the dems are still not good.

Americans have no representation at all.

You! You get it!

People forget that when revolutionary France happened, soldiers helped open the doors of the bastille.

So, leftists must operate in cells with distributed expertise. Leftists need people able to operate weapon, but more than that, they need to convince the imperial soldier that their cause is just. That's the hard part.

All the people I know have internalized sinophobia and russo phobia. It's pathetic. One of them was born in the USSR and thinks russian are out to get her. Her family is russian, dog gammit!

I have been accused of being pro china because I was not jumping on the china bad bandwagon. My actual stance is that all organized states are bad and these people know it!

I guess being from Apartheidland (no, the one in africa was the copycat) and having no culture of its own but american propaganda movie is some sort of an explanation, of not an excuse.

But yeah, it's anedoctally endemic to "liberal by default" people from my experience.