Hasan tweeted this https://xcancel.com/hasanthehun/status/2025372555507630495

I think it's possible that you missed my edit. Maybe a federation delay on edits?

Most of what I believe is from statements made by people who escaped North Korea

Those come from people who are taking money from NIS (formerly known as the KCIA but they changed the name to make it less obvious it's an occupied state). Those people are contractually obliged to paint the picture that South Korea wants in exchange for that money.

Anyone that does not take that money is politically persecuted, prevented from leaving the country, and monitored constantly.

The very fact that you use the word "escaped" is itself nonsense. Tens of thousands of DPRK citizens work outside the DPRK. The border with China is also an open border with tonnes of people travelling over it every day trading black market goods back and forth. The picture of "escape" that is painted is a myth created by the heavily militarised southern border, it does not exist on the northern borders.

Putting aside the word "escape", have you considered listening to the statements of people who have left the country who did not take money from the NIS? You should watch this whole video but particularly the guy in the middle. https://youtu.be/3V4Hnl7J9H4?t=678

I know someone who has left China because of political prosecution

That is very vague. Persecution for what exactly? I do not oppose all forms of political persecution. I actually think you'll agree with me when I say that the half of americans current supporting reactionary politics will actually require political persecution in order to make it a better country. So what exactly was this person being persecuted for? And what exactly did this persecution manifest as? Details matter. If it's one of the HK riots lot, they got handled very lightly compared to what the west would've done to them.

The DPRK's system is not particularly different to China's system. Both were inherited from the Soviet Union and have since been modified in different directions by those states.

The positions the Kims have held are an elected position and at any time that their congress sees fit to change that, they can. Why then does the DPRK continue to elect the Kims to that role? Cultural reasons, it's become an unchanging pillar that people consider to be an important point of stability for their state. They don't want to change that pillar because they don't want to introduce potential instability to their state at a time when literally the entire world has been sanctioning them thanks to the US.

This will sound strange from the american perspective, but I'm from the UK and very much understand what it's like to live in a culture where people support a royal family and don't want to get rid of it. I'm not saying that the Kims are a royal family but that the culture of support they have staying in that role for state stability and the historic link to their revolution is culturally comparable to the people who have supported the British monarchy because "it's always there" and "it's important" and "it keeps us stable".

Importantly, there is a mechanism for them to change this at any time the DPRK feels it wants to, they can simply elect someone else to that role. Realistically I do not think this is not going to happen until a softening of relations with the rest of the world. This isn't going to happen until the US completely falls from grace.

My first thought as well

It's a penis size meme imo

The fix to fertility rates is taking away forms of entertainment that don't involve different genders (generally speaking) mixing in a setting where they will get closer. And providing adequate future housing, childcare and career futures for them to think that having a child would not be a detriment overall.

As soon as children go from being a net resource gain in terms of providing household labour and agricultural/other labour to being a net resource drain on potential parents the fertility rates plummet.

I argue that this is mostly an economic problem caused by industrialisation and that people for centuries haven't just been having children because it's the thing you do or having children because they really really want kids but because they were a resource gain.

aren’t as obvious

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mirror? i get age verification

Yeah it's definitely this

Moats won't save you from drones bougies

tookover an anti-communist server?

What do you mean?

This is stupid behaviour too because it's not like any of this shit ever affects the bottom line. Consumers don't pay attention to any of it and even when they're aware of data breaches it's just an expected and accepted thing that happens from time to time these days.

I take the performance of fear of assassination to be projection that they're talking about and considering assassinations.

Yeah it is weird using the same word but functionally they do the same things and serve the same purpose.

David Cameron fucked a pig in his frat, the event was called "Piggate" when it was leaked to the press. The European fraternities are just more up-market, called "societies" and "clubs" and styled in overtly upper class ways compared to what the americans style them as. It's the same thing though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Gaveston_Society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullingdon_Club