QuietCupcake

Glad to help. Truth be told, I got the links myself from someone either on hexbear or lemmygrad. And the info might help get through to your colleague, sometimes the "right sources," like from characters in their precious ACU, actually can make an impact.

"Uh sure, I'm not going to question these lies because here is yet another set of lies I already don't question that confirms the first set of lies. Checkmate, commie!" -You

Not to mention the lengths their people have to go to if they want to leave.

Why might they have to go to such lengths? Hmmm...

"Plenty of North Koreans leave and live in China with no problem. The big reason it is so difficult for them to leave in general isn't because they are being held prisoner there by the DPRK government, it's because of restrictions imposed by the US and UN making it impossible for them to live most anywhere else."

United States:

"5. North Korean Overseas Workers (OP8): Requires countries to expel all North Korean laborers earning income abroad immediately but no later than 24 months later (end of 2019)."

United Nations:

"Strengthens the ban on providing work authorizations for DPRK nationals by requiring Member States to repatriate all DRPK nationals earning income and all DPRK government safety oversight attachés monitoring DPRK workers abroad within their jurisdiction within 24 months from 22 December 2017."

Meanwhile the DPRK has no official restriction on the people's free movement.

That’s why visitors are heavily monitored and often end up being detained and taken prisoner

People visit there all the fucking time without issue, but you can keep comforting yourself with more lies like that so you don't have to confront reality. You're really proving you have no curiousity and no will to examine your misconceptions. Here's another vid I might have included in my other comment, this one about visiting North Korea. Not that you actually watched or have any intention of watching them, but this one is short and comedic, so maybe even someone with zero interest in intellectual honesty might watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E

Surely the signs of a healthy and stable country.

Yeah, and hellholes like the US have such health and stability that they have the most prisoners in absolute terms and per capita by far where their ethnic minorities are murdered by their militarized police death squads with impunity. And why soldiers from the US are now defecting to North Korea because of the insane racism and oppression they face in the US.

Westerners are the most propagandized people on the planet.

You have been lied to about North Korea. It is simply not the evil dictatorship it's constantly portrayed as. This was a shock to me too when I first started trying to dig into all the things I'd been hearing most of my life about the "hermit kingdom." But if it is something you're remotely interested in understanding, you owe it to yourself to start questioning those lies, which includes questioning the material reasons behind why they are told. Since you posted something from a "defector" below, that's an excellent place to start asking questions about the veracity of claims made by defectors and understanding the industry they are incentivized to participate in (often to the point of having no other options).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V4Hnl7J9H4 Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul - "A documentary on the world of defectors and South Korean Intelligence"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDXxXYFweTs What's the Deal with Defectors? - shorter video essay that covers the basics.

If you like podcasts, I'd recommend Blowback. Any of their 4 seasons are excellent, but season 3 is about the Korean war and its consequences.

You're the one who brought up your family and "baby brother" and literally the only replies said he was not at fault. Such bad faith argumentation. Not a good look.

Damn, whatever it is they said, the comment was too spicy even for the modlog.

OperationOgre already kinda beat me to it, but you really are (or are not) in this picture:

I suppose yeah, something like that. It's not just hexbear, though, but every instance I've made an account on, I can see wildly different sets of content depending on instance even when they're all federated.

That's part of the reason, and it can make it more confusing, but there really is LOTS of content that isn't visible from one instance but it is from another for no valid reason, even when everyone involved are federated and when there have been no bannings or content removal. I see it all the time when I log into different federated instances and try to look at the same posts.

I keep coming across problems like this over and over. Federation has some massive issues around not showing content its supposed to. There are hexbear comments, posts, and even users you simply can't see when you're logged into lemmygrad, and vice versa. Try this: When you're logged into hexbear, visit c/literature. Now log out and log into a lemmygrad account and go visit that same community (it will now be lemmygrad.ml/c/[email protected] ). Notice a difference? Yeah, lemmygrad users will think there have only been 2 posts made to that comm ever. But from hexbear, there are thousands of posts. If you log into a lemmy.ml account and view that community, you'll find 3 posts are visible on hexbear's literature comm, but none of them will be the 2 posts that you could see from lemmygrad. This is just one example. Tons of stuff is missing, and yeah, sometimes its because of banned users or removed comments, but other times there is just no discernible reason for it.

I was just talking to @[email protected] the other day about it a little bit. If you view her hexbear account but you're logged into lemmygrad, it looks like she hasn't posted since 2 months ago. But that's clearly wrong. In fact, if you try to find threads she's started in this very same news mega (and you're logged into lemmygrad) you will never be able to find them. Lemmygrad people can't see her comments here nor can they see the comments of anyone who replied to her.

Nobody seems to realize this is an issue because no one would ever know if they don't log into different instances and try to see the same content. But it's all over the place.

I guess the post must have been deleted. I see from your comments on your American_Communist22 lemmygrad account that the post is a lemmy.world post, but even going to .world, that post doesn't show up. Thanks for the info anyway.

edit: yep, it's in their modlog. Reason was the source is biased.

lol, I actually found your lemmygrad account while trying to figure this out. I've run into problems like this before where stuff is invisible from one instance but not another, even though it should be because the instances are federated. But yeah, anyone reading this post, I mean the hexbear news mega, from their lemmygrad account can't see this thread/you at all.

Anyway, I'm still not sure what the post is you linked to (this url: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2267148 gives the post not found error). Is it the lemmy.ml one titled "Hmmmm" or the lemmy.world one titled "34 Palestinian children killed this year alone by Israeli forces"?