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    They don’t because this is obviously fake…

    radio free asia makes shit up all the time

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E

    it gets clicks and they’re an easy target so they just say whatever they think will get the most clicks.

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      North Korea is a hell hole but this “news” is just so fucking BS 🤦‍♂️ What’s next, they’re gonna ban water?

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        You are aware that different countries eat different foods and just because hotdogs have become popular in South Korea doesn’t mean they are that popular in North Korea, right? You are aware that this isn’t that different to what China tried to do, which was to try to ban Christmas, right? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-24/chinas-government-is-cracking-down-on-christmas-festivals/10666798 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/shanghai-puts-stop-spooky-season-rcna177545

        The fact is that these authoritarian states don’t want the possibility of any cultural mingling between societies, each has to be as alien as the other for the bubbles of ideology to sustain themselves.

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          China is state atheist, of course they’d try to ban christmas, that’s not abnormal for a dictatorship to do. See theocracies in the middle east, for example.

          But FOOD? What the fuck do they think, americans are putting secret cameras in the hotdogs? This is so obviously bs, and RFA is a well known propaganda source, dude.

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            This is so obviously bs

            Only in your brainwashed circles bud. The fact is that these authoritarian states don’t want the possibility of any cultural mingling between societies, each has to be as alien as the other for the bubbles of ideology to sustain themselves. That makes it easy to vilify the other. A lot of European societies are largely atheist now, and they still celebrate Christmas, it’s about sharing and enjoying culture festivities versus preventing cultural dissemination, at least bidirectionally.