Dumb question, what is this meme format about?
Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 months ago
t_chalco@lemmy.world 5 months ago
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Yeonmi Park, DPRK defector and conservative media darling. Claims of her life in North Korea are debated hotly- things along the lines of they eat rats and the like.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
My favorite bit is that she’s well known for her exaggerations about the DPRK as
t_chalco@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thanks!
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 months ago
So, the joke here is that you’ve got someone, presumably a Chinese official, saying a reality about America in a startling way that sounds like completely cooked up propaganda but isn’t.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It would still be propaganda. Propaganda doesn’t have to be false.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Right, yes, but the joke is that it’s said in such a way as to sound like an outright fabrication.
Crikeste@lemm.ee 5 months ago
“In America, they take your money for bombs and billionaires.”