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Freemason Rush Week
Apr 22, 2006


gently caress you Otomo, I'd trust a robot over a tired, overworked orderly any day of the week. :colbert:

Also here's a real gem that was posted 'Live from Seoul'!

http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk03600&num=12385

My favorite part is that it only takes a few paragraphs before veering into open propaganda:

quote:

Scholars have three criteria for measuring change in a communist state. The first is the restoration of private property, the second is the acknowledgement of profit, and the third is the introduction of the market system. These three are like a trinity that explains a single characteristic of capitalist economy from varying angles. This is because there must be a market for profit to occur and the conceptualization of profit is not possible without the recognition of private property. Marx-Engels did away with all three from mankind.

Scholars do not have any measurements related to the personal liberties or quality of life guaranteed for citizens because

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Freemason Rush Week
Apr 22, 2006

DancingShade posted:

Is South Korea - sorry I mean False Korea - building an army of autonomous humanoid Samsung-branded terminators as a precautionary measure?

Ha, of course not! However, if a private citizen chooses to contract the building of one or more death robots from his preferred manufacturer, this is well within the the parameters of a properly functioning market society.

Serious question: how likely is it that one of the exiled/estranged older brothers might suddenly be welcomed home? Similarly, would they really entertain the idea of letting big sis run the show?

Freemason Rush Week
Apr 22, 2006

Dusty Baker 2 posted:

If you missed this earlier in the year, PBS released a special on North Korea with undercover footage and poo poo. It's pretty alright.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secret-state-of-north-korea/

A bit late to the party but these sorts of reports always come across as concern trolling. While I would never, ever, ever equate life in a regular industrialized country to life in North Korea, it's a bit rich that a country with as much poverty as America is going "b-b-but there are homeless children and people going to bed hungry! :qq:" It feels more like the opportunity for reveling in spectacle (Adam Curtis' "oh dearism") and less about useful information. Still, props to the people risking their lives for freedom.

To clarify: what does it say about us that we're putting out the same kind of things as the North Koreans themselves?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkRT3C1mGRM

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