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A great video from a great channel

[–] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly the same with me :)

 

Hello comrades 🫡

I urge you all to watch the entire documentary that Al Jazeera just put out.

An obvious warning for absolutely despicable and horrific video material. But it's very well put together, with experts commenting on a lot of video clips put out by IOF soldiers on social media, with the focus of what exactly makes it alleged war crimes or clear cut war crimes.

Truly abhorrent footage, not exactly a documentary that sparks joy.

[–] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Currently using the "Zen Browser", which is another Firefox fork. Uses BetterFox for its default settings, and has decent privacy features built in... At least compared to default Firefox.

It has tabs in the sidebar instead of the top (vertical tabs?). At first I didn't like it, but now I don't think I could live without it :). Feels a lot less cluttered.

[–] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Reader mode is one of the reasons why I keep going back to Firefox or Firefox forks :). I really love how it just works, and how it also can unlock semi-paywalled (soft-locked) articles.

[–] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yea. The entire comment section, and guy himself are going through all the DPRK-bad tropes.

Not really related, but I recently re-watched Avatar: The Last Airbender, the animated series. There is so much blatant anti-"communist" propaganda throughout. Like the whole "no war in Ba Sing Se" thing is clearly designed to mimic "communist brainwashing", Stasi and everything related to bad/lib/western takes on non-western intelligence service(s). The same bad tropes are also repeated in Legend of Korra, with the equality movement, "the great uniter" and so on.

They're all clearly written to be the bad guys, and everything they believe in is compared to the usual anti-communist propaganda - equality=bad, he's actually a bad guy (liar) underneath the mask. The great uniter=bad, sends people to concentration camps while promising unity.

Again just reminds me of a classic joke:

"A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink..."

"I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.

"Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused... There's no propaganda in America."

[–] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He streams quite often, not continuously sadly. I think he said in some comment, that he's afraid of being demonetized or something.

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This guy/channel has "hacked" into a DPRK-based satellite, which he then streams to YouTube. Some more background on how he did it here.

He's pretty standard in terms of the "shitlib" takes on DPRK, blah blah Kim Regime, blah blah brainwashing.

But it's interesting nonetheless having pretty much full access to entire days of whatever they're showing on TV in the DPRK :).

[–] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense then :). Not trying to be mean or ableist, it's just hard for me to keep focus with the AI voices. Hopefully the AI based TTS-voices will get even better in the future!

[–] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The content of video itself is great, but I personally dislike the whole AI voice thing. It makes it a bit of a monotonous listening experience.

[–] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Who's "Unlearning Economics"? Haven't watched any of his videos. Watched plenty of BE's, but his videos are very "hit or miss". His newest take regarding Maduro seems very... Odd. I'm wondering if he's doing alright.

[–] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Rest in peace, comrade Nguyen Phu Trong!

NYTimes is already out there wishing for a "less conservative communist leader":

Mr. Trong represented a conservative Marxist-Leninist faction within the party, which includes another faction seen as more pragmatic and moderate. His death is likely to raise hopes in the West that a less doctrinaire leader could emerge. Mr. Trong, the only one in the 18-member Politburo who grew up during the Vietnam War, was a generation older than many of his peers.

[–] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Thank you comrade! <3

 

Growing up in the west (Europe), I never even once heard about serfdom and what kind of role it played in Tibet, prior to the Chinese Red Army liberation. Never once heard the perspective or stories from former serfs.

This documentary suddenly popped up in my YT feed.

It's quite astonishing thinking about it. How I've only ever been exposed to the "Free Tibet!"-crowd and their arguments, while never actually learning about (or hearing about) the actual material and living conditions of the serf population.

Even though this will clearly be called "CPC propaganda" or whatever, it's really refreshing to get another perspective and some nuance on the history of Tibet.

Great watch with some harrowing stories from former serfs. Really puts things into perspective.

 

Can't believe I missed this masterpiece of a video 😂 The Miami Cubans are really something else

[–] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, I don't know. But he has a lot of socials, and seems to be a nice bloke. You could probably send him a message. He's been a tour guide for Koryo Tours, so he might have brought some books and resources back home with him :)

 

Absolutely love the DPRK Explained channel, can only recommend!

 

Seems crazy huge!

[–] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hey, Danish guy here. It look like it's advertisement placed on scaffolding. Apparently the ad companies don't care about the laws/rules on advertisements on scaffolding, so the ad companies abuse that Copenhagen politicians haven't enforced the rules regarding those ads.

In Copenhagen, the major has very recently commented on it, calling it "The Wild West" (link to article, use DeepL or other tools for translations).

So usually it's not advertisements placed on a building itself, but on the scaffolds they use, when they're renovating buildings, or doing roof-work/repairs, etc.

 

Dr. Mads Gilbert is so fucking based, nothing but respect for the man.

 

I don't really enjoy most of his takes in general, but seeing this in "mainstream media", I thought it kind of sobering.

 

Participated in a pro-Palestine protest today in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was wonderful :).

2.500 people had signed up for the event. Some said 10.000 people showed up, others are saying 15.000. It was absolutely packed with people of all kinds and ages. I went with my 60+ year old dad.

I don't have enough pictures to make justice of the scale, but we went from a part of Copenhagen named "Nørrebro", and walked to the Danish parliament.

Photo from the parliament here and here.

A birds-eye view of how many showed up at the parliament: https://odysee.com/@kovpak:c/394458251600888:1

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