• fxomt
      link
      fedilink
      English
      142 days ago

      North Korea is a hell hole but this “news” is just so fucking BS 🤦‍♂️ What’s next, they’re gonna ban water?

      • @[email protected]OP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        -22 days ago

        You are aware that different countries eat different foods and just because hotdogs have become popular in South Korea doesn’t mean they are that popular in North Korea, right? You are aware that this isn’t that different to what China tried to do, which was to try to ban Christmas, right? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-24/chinas-government-is-cracking-down-on-christmas-festivals/10666798 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/shanghai-puts-stop-spooky-season-rcna177545

        The fact is that these authoritarian states don’t want the possibility of any cultural mingling between societies, each has to be as alien as the other for the bubbles of ideology to sustain themselves.

        • fxomt
          link
          fedilink
          English
          72 days ago

          China is state atheist, of course they’d try to ban christmas, that’s not abnormal for a dictatorship to do. See theocracies in the middle east, for example.

          But FOOD? What the fuck do they think, americans are putting secret cameras in the hotdogs? This is so obviously bs, and RFA is a well known propaganda source, dude.

          • @[email protected]OP
            link
            fedilink
            English
            -6
            edit-2
            2 days ago

            This is so obviously bs

            Only in your brainwashed circles bud. The fact is that these authoritarian states don’t want the possibility of any cultural mingling between societies, each has to be as alien as the other for the bubbles of ideology to sustain themselves. That makes it easy to vilify the other. A lot of European societies are largely atheist now, and they still celebrate Christmas, it’s about sharing and enjoying culture festivities versus preventing cultural dissemination, at least bidirectionally.

            • fxomt
              link
              fedilink
              English
              72 days ago

              What brainwashed circles do you think i participate in? I hate authoritarianism, and NK too.