Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror

• PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonmi_Park

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  • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My favorite bit is that she’s well known for her exaggerations about the DPRK as

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  • t_chalco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thanks!

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• conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It would still be propaganda. Propaganda doesn’t have to be false.

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    • conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Right, yes, but the joke is that it’s said in such a way as to sound like an outright fabrication.

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