South Korean media reports of North Korean defectors are notoriously not trustworthy. North Korean defectors suffer from a lot of stigma if they go to the South and usually struggle to find a job. Tabloids pay them for their stories. Obviously, the taller the tale, the more likely they get a paycheck.

The fact that NK is so closed off means it’s hard to disprove a lot of the claims, but we can still know that they’re false when they’re contradictory. For example, some NK defectors have claimed having KJU’s haircut is illegal, others claim it’s the only haircut men are allowed to wear. Some claim that abortion is totally banned, others claim that the state forces women to get abortions.

Probably the epitome of this phenomenon is Yeonmi Park. Are you really gonna die on the hill that NK defectors like her are trustworthy sources?

Can you elaborate on why you think that?

Okay.

One day this account will be 2 years old and its posts will be recognized for their greatness. But until then, it’ll just be a sockpuppet troll account. Very sad.

The situation is most definitely not the same. If it was the same then corporate media wouldn’t spend much time criticizing China, they’d be happy with having yet another country to freely exploit.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78nrx309kzo

This kind of thing never receives serious consequences in the US anymore. Hell, do enough white collar crimes and pedophilia and they make you president.

If he reads this thread before replying, I’m gonna give him a secret hint: don’t just assume that because Chairman Mao was Chinese that means Maoists are pro-China! It was actually a trick question! To answer this one halfway correctly, you might have to do at least 2 minutes of reading. To answer it very correctly, it may be necessary to get way more educated on political subjects before running one’s mouth online. I recommend reading Parenti and starting at Blackshirts and Reds! I believe in you!

Yeah even the hands that don’t scale super well (high card, pair, two pair) get enough chips from getting 5 or 6 levels that you don’t need to run a chips joker, and if you get them to like level 20 more xmult or econ jokers become superior to flat mult jokers.

Can you elaborate on that?

Yeah, maybe, but I think what he meant by that was that I kept insisting he’s a tankie but he believes tankie = genocide supporter.

Anyway, I do think his thing of specifying that tankies are defined by our defense of China’s genocide specifically is interesting. I already pointed out that that excludes Maoists which I can’t wait to see his reply to.

Ah, I guess so, it means that the surplus they can make from technology just becomes more money for the individual capitalist instead of something that could be socially beneficial? I guess that’s not a bad point but it could be taken further.

This is kind of a toothless meme. Aren’t you just saying capitalists embrace technology? That’s a positive thing.

The Marxist criticism here is in how capital embraces new technology to gain an edge, but increasing investment shifts the organic composition of commodities into more fixed capital; in turn, this means the labor content of each commodity is lower and there will be less profit to be made once competition gets rid of that initial edge. That means the rate of profit has a tendency to fall over time, not increase.

My #1 priority on my runs on those later challenges was getting standard packs and spectrals to get blue seals. The value of a blue seal, especially in Jokerless, is incredible. Honestly finishing all the challenges made me rate blue seals and Mime a lot higher. Mime’s already one of the better jokers, so I think it’s probably S tier for me now.

I read it as “you’re right that I support Hamas but I’m not a tankie because I oppose all genocides, not just the one in Gaza” which I admit is also a non-sequitur but not as much of a non-sequitur as also calling Hamas genocidal. But we’re definitely reading tea leaves here.

Hold on, another point here: so are Maoists and communists that strictly take the Soviet side of the Sino-Soviet split not tankies?

Honestly I don’t think this person is saying Hamas is genocidal. I think he’s very confused and is really insistent that tankies love genocide, so he was trying to like, pre-move me. But as far as I can tell the implied genocidal regime he’s opposed to is China, not Hamas. Obviously that opens a whole other can of worms but he won’t reply to my last comment.

did you know that 23% of American adults 18-39 think the Shoah was fabricated or exaggerated?

That’s horrifying.

Indeed, why did you say that leftists say it’s good for Iran to shoot protesters in the face and that Russia has a god given right to invade Ukraine?

Okay, you said “tankies are defined by their defense of genocide” but then say that there was a massacre in Tiananmen Square.

For one, that’s false. No massacre has ever taken place in Tiananmen Square, and if you could find me a source that says otherwise I’d welcome it.

But also, massacre is not the same as genocide. There must be something else you’re talking about.

You should know, the origin of the term “tankie” is related to Khruschev sending in tanks to squash a fascist movement in Hungary in 1956, way before the 1989 protests in Beijing.

There was a genocide in Tiananmen Square?