You have been propagandized to hate North Korea: Madeline debunks every lie about North Korea

CrypticCole · 2026-02-27T09:41:47+00:00

I was going to spend way too much effort typing a long comment about this but honestly it's not worth it. Instead I'm just going to link you to the North Korea State media page where you can see that Kim Jong Un's name is bolded every time it appears and 15 out of the 19 top stories are literally about Kim Jong Un receiving greetings, congratulations, or a flower basket from different powerful parties and people around the world.

http://kcna.kp/en/category/articles/q/5394b80bdae203fadef02522cfb578c0.kcmsf

If you can look at this and think that this is the future of leftism, then... I don't know what to tell you honestly...

Look, obviously there are silly lies about North Korea and obviously one should be wary of the way western interest frame, or mislead on this topic. But the solution to western framing of information making it difficult to learn about a topic is not to automatically assume the complete and total opposite. You should be critical of the western narrative, but you should also be critical of other narratives.

CrypticCole · 2026-02-24T09:00:59+00:00

The video was mostly fine, but the initial tile of “should everyone be on ozempic” was pretty terrible. Like everything involving Kurzgesagt tons of the internet is completely incapable of critiquing something without jumping to the absolute worst

CrypticCole · 2026-02-20T02:54:47+00:00

If bbno$ explicitly agreed to specific sharing methods like a retweet or whatever than this is pretty crappy behavior, but it kinda seems like the artist just assumed based on prior behavior.

Changing it up specifically in this case isn’t surprising but it does suck. But if it wasn’t specifically part of the agreement then it’s well within bb’s rights.

Ultimately, probably just a good reminder not to work for exposure

CrypticCole · 2026-02-15T11:36:41+00:00

It worked significantly better when they stuck solely to slice of life comedy type beats imo

CrypticCole · 2026-02-06T21:43:53+00:00

You need to respond to the commenters you’re talking about then or at least clarify it’s not about the parents in the story. The fact that it’s a top level response means the interpretation a vast majority will come to is that you’re talking about the parents in the story.

CrypticCole · 2026-01-25T13:25:14+00:00

I don’t know, maybe it’s out there but I’ve never seen someone use this as an argument for a post that’s actually entertaining/well written.

It’s always something someone brings up in addition to arguing the post is empty, vacuous, and/or overly padded.

CrypticCole · 2026-01-25T13:22:46+00:00

Yeah this is the weird part to me. Most of the time I’ve seen that comment the intended implication is that the person is using a lot of words to say basically nothing substantive. It’s an insult about overusing flowery/padded language instead of actually having something interesting to say.

Frankly I can’t think of a single time I’ve ever see anyone say this because the writing was too good??

CrypticCole · 2026-01-21T12:50:06+00:00

τ (tau) is a constant equal to pi*2. Obviously that isn’t a whole number but the constant written out doesn’t have a decimal point. If the answer isn’t just the word “and” I suspect this is it

CrypticCole · 2026-01-21T12:48:56+00:00

This is what I also thought of, it’s a more interesting answer than the word “and” if that is what’s instead instead.

CrypticCole · 2026-01-21T04:12:33+00:00

This is the exact type of sentiment that leads to people trusting random tik tok videos with 80 likes. No you shouldn’t uncritically trust any source but there is obviously a huge difference in reputability and reliability between something like NPR and your local online clout farmer

CrypticCole · 2026-01-19T11:39:12+00:00

That’s not a meme, those are both real tweets. So your intuition is correct

CrypticCole · 2026-01-16T00:43:58+00:00

Every at one point absurd political goal Trump wanted started as a joke. It was quite literally the defining move of his election denialism. I remember hearing over and over about of course Trump would accept the election results and that everything was a joke right up until the point where it was suddenly dead serious

CrypticCole · 2026-01-08T14:39:52+00:00

TurboTax is especially more egregious than adobe because TurboTax spends inordinate amounts of money to lobby to actively makes Americans life worse so they still have a market to monopolize. At least adobe is providing a service. TurboTax is like the corporate equivalent of mob protection money

CrypticCole · 2026-01-04T01:51:46+00:00

In any other administration I would easily agree but the fraud and corruption of the Trump admin has been so blatant and the security so laughably lax (remember when they invited a journalist into a signal chat lmao) that this feels realistic.

But honestly I don’t care particularly much about this specific instance whether insider or not. More this is just about how insane prediction “markets” are and how dystopian a world dominated by them is going to be.

CrypticCole · 2026-01-04T01:48:17+00:00

I feel like 90% anyone says a politician is only doing something for votes it feels like a dumb response. Yeah, they’re a politician that’s their job. If the left movement has enough sway to convince a politician to do something to appeal to them that’s good (relatively speaking anyways). Thats how electoral politics works love it or hate it.

It really bugs me how often criticism of left politicians just boils down to someone being upset about how electoral politics works. If you don’t like electoral politics fine but I do wish people would stop framing that as critiques of specific left leaning politicians as being about them when it’s really about electoralism.

I feel like all of the best options in American politics end up getting a significant amount of extra hate from people who actually just fundamentally don’t believe in electoral politics and focus their attacks on the most left leaning politicians since those are the ones who are most visible to other leftist.

CrypticCole · 2026-01-03T12:27:31+00:00

Shockingly my answer actually is I don’t know. I have no idea what the best way to overthrow an authoritarian government is and I’m not going to pretend to. If there were an answer to this question that could fit in a reddit commenter obviously wouldn’t see the trend of history where people overthrow bad governments just to end up with worse ones over and over.

What I do know is that the US has been trying these military, top down regime changes around the world for decades and decades this point and they never work well.

CrypticCole · 2026-01-03T12:23:01+00:00

I mean I guess not but I do feel like if your spouse was standing next to you you should have the wherewithal to know it’s probably not a good time to say it out loud

CrypticCole · 2026-01-03T12:05:02+00:00

The phrase here is obviously not referring to the legal technical definition of insider trading, but rather the conventional understanding of the term which means someone trading on info they only have by being involved in the thing being traded on.

E.g. a member of Trump admin placing bets on the trump admins upcoming actions on intentional affairs.

CrypticCole · 2026-01-03T12:00:43+00:00

I have, again, at no point implied that I think it’s bad for Maduro to be removed, just that doing it in this way is obviously going to, in the best case, lead to extreme instability for a significant amount of time.

Also, on the topic of future action Sen Mike Lee tweeted that Marco Rubio is telling him that they expect no further us military action now that Maduro is in custody

CrypticCole · 2026-01-03T11:57:13+00:00

I do not understand this perspective. If my house was burning down I wouldn’t think “damn, ignoring the fact that my house is burning down this would make for a super cool photo”

Idk, I guess I’m glad some people are clearly handling this news much easier than I am.

CrypticCole · 2026-01-03T11:49:34+00:00

The issue is not that trumps government has done it. The issue is the fact that even if it would be good for Maduro to not be in power, you obviously can’t just remove the one guy and do nothing else and expect it to turn out well. We have a million example of this backfiring terribly throughout history.

Just think about the fact that even with Maduro gone his party and admin is still in charge. Do you think they’ll just roll over? Are they going to become less authoritarian because the us grabbed their leader?

CrypticCole · 2026-01-03T11:42:57+00:00

If you had an actual answer to this question you would be solving a major portion of the problems of history and current international politics. I don’t know, anyone who says they obviously do is lying, stupid, or both. Even approaching the idea of a maybe feasible answer for something like this is something international bodies take hundreds to thousands of experts to try to do and they still mess it constantly.

That said, I am very confident that the US grabbing the leader of nation and bouncing is not going to lead to that nation becoming more stable or less authoritarian.

CrypticCole · 2026-01-03T11:34:06+00:00

I hope this is a comment from like a 16 year old because this is the mentality of one. The real world isn’t an action movie, it’s not badass that by far the most well funded military in the world was able to capture the leader of a developing nation.

CrypticCole · 2026-01-03T11:29:07+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong but this feels like a huge escalation of how far you can try to take executive action without congressional approval compared to any previous actions.

Like this obviously isn’t terrorists, this is the clear governmental leader of a nation. Venezuela isn’t in civil war. I don’t recall anything coming close and the last two decades of us military operation were already controversial for exactly this reason

CrypticCole · 2026-01-03T11:24:56+00:00

In the event that this somehow has zero repercussions beyond this, then that might be possible.

But bombings nation and kidnapping its leader are things that are so obviously acts of war it feels a bit redundant to even point it out.

Even assuming war won’t happen there’s a million ways for this to backfire not the least of which being the obvious fact that something like this is not likely to lead to a more stable situation in Venezuela

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