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[–] Grimble@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Could you show this meme to any of your friends or family and succesfully explain a) why it's funny and b) who it's for ?

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah. They would find it hilarious that the meme this was based on thinks that North Korea is a bastion of freedom.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unironically better urban planning there than anywhere in Burgerland

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok. I'm sure citizens in the gulag care how good the zoning committee is.

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US has a higher proportion of its population in the gulag than North Korea does.

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both are bad systems. What are you trying to accomplish here?

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You pointed out North Korea's prison population as a counter to their superior urban planning to the USA, but they also have a lower prison population.

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The difference being there is a modicum of due process in the US.

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting assertion, care to substantiate it?

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not really in the business of sourcing things to users from an instance that is basically a Sealioning factory.

Ultimately, I will get told I don't understand economics until I've read all three volumes of Das Kapital. Ironically, it's no different that libertarians saying you don't understand economics unless you've read the works of Milton Friedman, or more importantly, Ayn Rand.

[–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Go back to your Fox News

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net -1 points 1 year ago

I doubt OP could show any of their friends or family who are still willing to talk to them.