"I've come to make an announcement; Kim Jong Un's a removed ass motherfucker, he pissed on my fucking wife. Thats right, he took his authoritarian quilly dick out and he pissed on my fucking wife, and he said his dick was "This big" and I said that's disgusting, so I'm making a callout post on my twitter dot com, Kim Jong Un, you've got a small dick, it's the size of this walnut except WAY smaller, and guess what? Here's what my dong looks like: PFFFT, THAT'S RIGHT, BABY. ALL POINTS, NO QUILLS, NO PILLOWS. Look at that, it looks like two balls and a bong. He fucked my wife so guess what? I'm gonna fuck the Earth. THAT'S RIGHT THIS IS WHAT YOU GET, MY SUPER LASER PISS! Except I'm not gonna piss on the earth. I'm gonna go higher. I'M PISSING ON THE MOON! HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT, OBAMA? I PISSED ON THE MOON YOU IDIOT! YOU HAVE 23 HOURS BEFORE THE PISS DROPLETS HIT THE FUCKING EARTH NOW GET OUT OF MY SIGHT BEFORE I PISS ON YOU TOO."
The whole "everybody is an actor" thing is so astonishingly dumb and yet Westerners who have been to North Korea still believe that. Absolutely the stupidest people who are convinced of their superior intelligence.
EDIT: Also are you seriously using that old conservative cliche of "If you love it so much why don't you live there"? Can't you just you know, sit back, consider what you were typing, and do a bit of self-reflection?
No, it's a twist on that--they're combining "why don't you move there" with "North Korea intranet literally 1984", but with the punchline being that the North Koreans rather than being lamentably prevented from accessing Hexbear are instead being protected from our lackluster posting
I think if they were capable of self-reflection, those conservatives wouldn't be using a thought terminating cliche that sounds like it was made up by a pre-schooler.
It seems appealing some days. To be in a country that isn't the Great Satan and even more plentiful quantities of kimchi sounds like an alright tradeoff.
VPNs are great because they're enough to get access to whatever you want, but also provide enough of a barrier to stop lazy fuckers from picking up dogshit beliefs from western media.
It's like a brain damage vaccine. Won't stop you from getting it, but dramatically reduces the likelihood and severity, and you also benefit from your collegues getting it.
Yeah the problem I see with this argument is that of course in an idealised world it would make sense to ban parts of the internet just like banning some kinds of oppinions is based irl.
But I think on the internet is a lot of garbage that has to be there so that people see it, because without allowing some garbage there is no discussion, no new values nor freedom.
I think any kind of left leaning ideology should enable non violent discourse as much as possible. Of course that would mean banning really bad things, but it would not mean complete restriction.
Also as a side note: Banning something does not kill the presence of it in society. In most cases it makes the issue worse than it is: You need more than just a ban, you need to convince people that you're right, not force them into beliving.
This is why fact based propaganda is valuable and a great way to stop populism.