Some of these people’s brains have been so thoroughly melted by neoliberalism that if they sit still for long enough their brain goop leaks out of their ears and pools around their feet.
Shit like this is why tech is never going to save us from climate change. If it's got a price tag attached to it it's not going to benefit humanity at large.
Tech under capitalism won't save us from climate change. Technology under socialism might work better.
Yup. I think that tech under socialism would save the world and humans would merge with machines and we'd be all FALGSC but under capital? Elon will turn your heart off for saying Tesla's are stupid.
Uncritical support to the DPRK in the fight against monopolic patents :kim-salute:
I'm really disappointed nobody leaked vaccine IP, or deliberately gave it to foreign countries. Fucking hell y'all took hippocratic oaths or whatever do the right fucking thing
the people in the cockpit of the death machine had to undergo decades of inhumanity training and filtering to land the gig
You can save all people from the trolly tracks at any time but you also have to save people in the DPRK. Do you do it?
Most of the top comments are at least sane and the people that aren’t are getting dunked on.
This will certainly, uh, [checks notes] reduce Pfizer's profitability in the DPRK
Now I don't really want to start a DPRK struggle session but I feel like I have to: 0 cases?
Come on.
0 cases?
Who cares how many cases they have if they’re doing all they can? Not like the wealthy western nations would help though I think the DPRK saying they have 0 cases is a closer number to reality than the amount of cases the US is reporting to its actual number
Yeah, I agree with all of that. They indeed do not expect any one in the west to believe them, or to care about it. They indeed probably do not have that many cases. But, precisely, if it does not matter, then why not say the actual number? Or even just not say anything? So I have to deduce that it's meant as a message for the population? It does not say anything about how well or bad they handle the actual cases. But come on it just unironically make them look like something directly taken from a communism-is-when-propaganda Orwell book.
which I can’t confirm if they are, tbf
Then I'd genuinely be curious to know more about this. You mean that they're telling us they do not have any case while they secretly update their population on the actual situation? Because as I said above, for me it was obvious that it was not a communication meant for the rest of the world, but then that it logically had to be internal propaganda.
For the rest (taking proper steps), I'm not saying anything. Just talking about the number of cases and communication here.
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Unless they report that their entire country is crumbling under the pandemic, it’s going to get twisted into propoganda anyway.
Wrong: even it that case it would btw.
But why communicate that with the outside world? It doesn’t serve any purpose because even if the entire country had Covid the majority of the world would sit back and happily watch the DPRK crumble.
There aren't a lot of flows of people and goods in or out of DPRK. When the virus broke out, they reduced those flows even more to protect themselves.
Why do you think they must have cases? Vietnam is much more internationally connected than DPRK and Vietnam reports only 2.3k. Taiwan <1k.
Is it so unbelievable that a much much less internationally connected state could have 0 cases?
Counterpoint: Greenland, Antarctic, Easter Island, ... all got at least 1 detected case.
also its possible they have 0 cases and still want a vaccine for a deadly disease. wow, i guess liberals aren't great at this pandemic preparation, who knew?
Capitalist brain can’t fathom being prepared for something if it isn’t profitable
They aren’t even stealing a loaf of bread, they’re stealing a recipe to bake bread that the original baker can still use
There are two tracks. One has millions of people tied to it, the other has nobody. You can switch the trolley onto the empty track at any time, but that would require stealing Pfizer's patented switch technology, therefore those millions deserve to die.
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
