Nah China "bad"/"authoritarian" and the DPRK is an "evil evil dictatorhsip" ~lemmy liberals : memes

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 8 points 3 hours ago

"Heh, you fool, you naive, obviously the devious asian commies are simply lying not-listening smuglord "

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 15 points 5 hours ago

theory-gary suicide is literally illegal under capitalism

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 hours ago

I love how rankled all the libs get when they see this.

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 hours ago

All the shitlibs are suddenly weirdly pro suicide.

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 32 points 14 hours ago

The evil communists are repressing the hardworking suicide booth owners from making a ~~killing~~ profit and an honest living.

[-] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Obviously those are fake communist numbers, can't trust them!

And besides, people in those countries can't suicide because the evil regime would gulag their whole family for two generations!

And actually, higher suicide rate in capitalist countries just shows they have more personal freedom/are more democratic!

some free-thinker liberal out there

[+] Ostrakon@lemmy.world -10 points 7 hours ago

I am sure these figures are accurate and can be trusted. There's no way the Chinese or North Korean government would ever lie about these figures.

[-] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago

Literally in this very thread

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 hours ago

We need a button for the unfalsifiable orthodoxy Parenti quote.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 hours ago

Part of the ideology of white-supremacy, is that proximity to whiteness means trustworthiness and authenticity, and distance from it means untrustworthiness.

So white supremacists think only the western countries (and their allies like South Korea, Japan, and other US military base countries) data and educational institutions can be trusted, while the numbers coming from any country opposed to them must inherently be a lie.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

And Taiwan or South Korea never lied too and their real numbers are definitely lower than this shit.

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 hours ago

Holy chauvinism.

[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The framing and double-standard is chauvinist and bad.

But there are reasons to be skeptical of suicide stats worldwide due to cultural ideas and norms around suicide. Like, look at the US. It was common practice for coroners to put accident as cause of death even if it was clearly suicide - and still is, to some degree. Only recently have statisticians began including certain other cases of "accidental" death as suicide (some single car crashes, gun "accidents", ODs, etc).

And different countries have different methods for reporting out on suicide. It's not founded to say countries are intentionally skewing suicide stats, but it would be constructive to be skeptical about how those figures were arrived at before believing memes without citations.

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I would have no issue with them saying suicide stats are often inaccurate due to x, y, or z reason.

What they instead chose to say was the typical chauvinist bullshit of the evil Asiatic hoardes in China and the DPRK can't be trusted to report anything truthfully nonsense.

[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 hours ago

I was agreeing with you

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 3 points 15 hours ago

Imagine not even having the right to kill yourself

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago

why is this important at all? who fucking cares that suicide is legal or not when trying to kill yourself? you're gonna die bro, what you plan on committing suicide but you're afraid of some legal bullshit?

what country are you from? is suicide legal? is that your first thought when you're depressed? are you some sort of euthanasia propagandist? i dont eve get where your going with this

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Not to side with the propaganda guy, but it's illegal to commit suicide in the US. Not sure about other countries but I'm sure it's common.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 hours ago

There's like 9 countries that euthanasia is legal and none is on the map.

[+] kboos1@lemmy.world -20 points 9 hours ago

Not reporting accurate information is not the same thing

[-] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago

Posting literally any data that makes the empire and it's vassals look bad and watching shitlibs work their way through every line of the Narcissist's Prayer

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 hours ago

yeah, south korea tends to do that, but at least we have an idea of how bad things are in the regime

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 17 points 9 hours ago

What do you mean?

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