Comment on Anon thinks she's exaggerating

• hexagonwin@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  she’s known to lie a lot. see this page for example… (use translator)

  i know life in north korea is genuinely awful in many ways but that person just straight out lied too many times. defo not worth the attention they get.

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Lying to survive and get ahead is one of the most North Korean things things you can do. She’s eating kimchi rice every night and nobody’s stopping her.

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    • hexagonwin@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      fun random korean fact btw, we do actually eat kimchi every day.

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• Dreamcatcher@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m sure her talking about North Koreans having to push trains sometimes is just a language barrier issue.

  Definitely not her making stuff up because she knows that she can say pretty much anything she wants because it’s very hard to disprove whatever she says. Definitely not making a lot of money from stealing the spotlight from people who have real stories about suffering in North Korea that deserve attention more than her bullshit. No no, North Koreans are special people who can push trains that weigh thousands of tons AND can do it while starving to death. :D

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  • Jiral@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I am not saying she is not a serial liar who is earning her money from selling out to the populist right media, but you’d be surprised what humans can do in terms of pushing rail carriages, as long as the track is flat. Rail has very low friction. For a single person it is very hard, but if you have a dozen of people at it, things get doable.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qGJFDyrGEg

    I could imagine that shunting work of individual carriages could be done by human force, if you have enough people available for it. With maybe two dozen people for one carriage it could be even not totally exhausting work. Still a rather crazy thing to do but perfectly possible.

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    • Dreamcatcher@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I mean, that guy looks like a body builder and he’s using specific equipment and a technique to pull the train a few meters. Impressive, but it’s not relevant.

      Pushing uses way less muscles and those people are supposed to be starving.

      With maybe two dozen people for one carriage it could be even not totally exhausting work.

      Yeah, if the train was wide enough. Trains aren’t wide enough to accommodate two dozen people pushing it from the back. They’re quite narrow, actually.

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      • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I thought they wouldn’t push it from the back, but from the sides, but I am not sure if I’m on board with the idea that they do in in NK at all

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• Seefoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Apparently she’s also right-wing. Who h is ironic on many levels

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  • MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    i mean if you come from North Korea then almost anything else would seem like a progressive utopia to what you grew up with.

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  • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How is it ironic? If she hated the NK regime enough to defect she would probably be strongly anti-communist at least.

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• 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yea. I watched a whole documentary / interview with her. She’s been through a lot. I think she has her own Youtube channel and such.

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