Great now I’m hungry for hot dogs.
I really want to balance a tea set on his hair. So flat.
They are gross anyways.
Why are you all believing this obvious piece of false information?
No I’m not, that’s why lemmy.ml and hexbear, including its “counterpropaganda” brigading, is on my block list.
I discovered this post from my All feed, not from hexbear, if that’s what you are implying.
I’m actually implying what most people can already deduce from anyone shouting fake news from those instances.
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I guess we’re posting The Sun and The New York Post articles now…?
The source is neither, but you can choose your preferred link: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=north+korea+bans+hotdogs
How do people keep up with all these petty laws? If my country banned hotdogs there’s a decent chance I’d miss the announcement and accidentally put a frankfurter in a bun. I could miss it completely and I have internet! How does your average person on North Korea find out about this ban on putting sausages in bread?
It helps that everyone is corrupt and a general sense of displaying loyalty is more important than any supposed law on it’s own.
This is actually the default way civilisation works - Western-style rule of law is new and weird.
Ignoring the question of whether this is real, you’d probably find out when you can’t find them at the store, order from your supplier, etc.
Basically, it would get noticed earlier in the supply chain.
They don’t because this is obviously fake…
radio free asia makes shit up all the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E
it gets clicks and they’re an easy target so they just say whatever they think will get the most clicks.
North Korea is a hell hole but this “news” is just so fucking BS 🤦♂️ What’s next, they’re gonna ban water?
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.
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.
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 culture festivities versus preventing cultural dissemination.
What brainwashed circles do you think i participate in? I hate authoritarianism, and NK too.
Thank you for virtue signalling appropriately.
Alright, now he’s crossed the line!
You just need to move the hyphen:
Kim Jung un-bans hotdogs for North Koreans
That’s actually what I read the first time.
According to Radio Free Asia…
We find the real source of the story buried near the bottom to avoid embarrassment. Must have been a slow news day in New Zealand 🤣 🤣 🤣
NZ Herald is borderline tabloid. They just want the clicks. And then paywall some articles. And I’m pretty sure they were the ones caught using ChatGPT to write articles. I’m in NZ and actively avoid them.
Seems I guessed that right from the headline. There’s plenty to shit on, like their soldiers being sent to the Ukrainian meat grinder. But when you see “country bans cheap food” or “country requires kim jong haircuts for everyone”, don’t be gullible.
Must be a slow day and a weighted agenda for someone to care. 🙄
Why care about truth or credibility, right?
We in the democratic world are capable of making fun of our crazy leaders, even when there might be a clear bias to that information. Those with an agenda to pander to go crazy eyes when anyone in their ideological bubble godhood pantheon has anything that is near seeming borderline bad appear to be associated to them.
If you truly do care whether a despot bans hotdogs for their citizens as a matter of “truth” and “credibility”, it truly must be a slow day and for a weighted agenda. At least the downvote list for that comment should be useful to instance admins, but it’s fairly obvious why *cough* *cough* cross-posted to: counterpropaganda@hexbear.net (see profile)
The source routinely lies about this kind of shit.
You’ve been primed to believe this kind of bullshit to manufacture your consent for any and all heinous shit we continue to subject the DPRK to.
They are giving you an enemy that isn’t the capitalists currently exploiting you.
Truth is always important. And hexbear is a broken clock, something something twice a day. North Korea is a dystopian dictatorship, but spreading lies does nothing to help at all. There are actual victims of authoritarianism in NK, and using their plight for sensationalism and clicks is just awful.
Too bad it isn’t a lie. That’s the thing about dictatorships, they can do whatever the fuck they want.
Why the fuck would NK want to ban hotdogs? literally what is the point of that?
Dictators can do whatever they want, but you think they write nonsensical laws for fun?
China does something akin to this, too:
- 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. That makes it easy to vilify the other.
I see that you can’t really prove its false, it just seems strange to you so it must not be true.
That Buttigieg looks pretty tasty.
Divorce is considered an anti-socialist act
I would argue it’s quite socialist. Return the pussy to the people.
Gross
Damn he is really listening to Kennedy Jr.
Cold hot dogs are allowed. Got it.
What about hot cold dogs?
No! Only cold dogs.
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