• starik@lemmy.zip
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      9 hours ago

      Good policy for bad (or at least not principled) reasons. It’s for money. They consider Israel “high risk” because of the war. China doesn’t give a shit about human rights. They send their own Muslims to concentration camps.

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        True. It’s a state. I can’t think of a time a state did something for purely altruistic reasons.

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        It’s also to say they have principles. It’s hard for the USA or Europe to criticize their human rights abuses while continuing to support Israel. It’s a way to highlight western hypocrisy while avoiding risk. Remember they still invest into other high risk countries. High risk can lead to high reward.

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      9 hours ago

      The literal hellscape on earth North Korea is right next door, they just recently got done executing citizens for watching a TV show

      There’s obviously more to this

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        When they finished executing all those people who watched the show, they executed the people who caught them, for having seen the show too. Then they executed the judges for knowing what a TV show was. Then they executed me for posting about it. (I got better)

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                9 hours ago

                Do all the countries you believe ridiculous things about happen to be enemies of the US?

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                  9 hours ago

                  You’re a dumbass. North Korea"s treatment of human life is well documented Internationally.

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                    Eh, I heard the same thing about China, then I went there, and I heard the same thing about Iran, but everyone I talked to who’s actually been there had much more level-headed criticisms of the government than the horseshit the news makes up.