Well that was quite literally Harris’ 2024 campaign so… yeah. Most dems want to keep things the same and often campaign on it. At worst they dress more of the same with co-opted progressive ideas that historically have ended with just more of the same.

Again the irony is painful. Take your own advice, liberal.

Gonna go ahead and discard any further discussion

That does track for you people.

Raw numbers have jack shit to do with it, you should probably go back to stats class if you think they do. The odds of 20+ million people all being literate is vanishingly small, the only reason to accept that statement is believing the probability of NK press lying to be 0.

Except statistics are pointless in a vacuum. If you have a chance of 1 in a million, it is vanishingly unlikely that 100 chances hits that one in a million. This is especially true when speaking about disabilities, most of which are genetic (which means most populations do NOT have the same chances), most of which do not impair literacy. Period.

If you have an accurate accounting of the population, and an accurate method of ensuring that population becomes educated, then grats, you get 100% literacy in a small enough population.

The exceedingly few disabilities that would cause illiteracy, literally only a handful of which exist period and the total number of humans that have them is less than 7 figures world wide, do not occur in most populations frequently enough to apply to ANY GIVEN GROUP of people under 100 Million.

Practically no disability stops literacy entirely (that isn’t unbelievably expensive to keep the subject alive), and the few that do, again, are so impractically rare it’d be surprising if there are a handful of those individuals on the Asian continent.

It’s shocking you’re going to bat for NK without even understanding the basic political landscape. He is the PRESIDENT of the State Affairs Commission. Which part of those duties sound any different than any other president or prime minister? Pedantics over title (President/Chairman, NDC/SAC) or the specific electoral process does not change the powers of the role.

If Irony were a disability you’d be disabled.

Only from a propagandist and defeatist point of view. There are not just two options. There is no reason to support people that are only willing to keep you alive as long as you ostensibly give them power. The lesser evil is just evil that is not applied to you, only others; voting for that makes you just as bad as any MAGA supporter, since you’re voting for the same reasons.

She has been very visibly involved with progressive politics for a decade. Not democratic. Those two are not even in the same ideological strata. The most progressive democrat is still far right to any modern progressive or leftist. AOC is to left-wing politics as Donald Trump is to Bill Clinton.

And I did watch the video, she did not say not to vote at all. She said not to vote for genocidal candidates even if they’re democrats. There’s a pretty big difference. FPTP is not a duopoly unlike what the propagandists consistently sell you. If people voted for their interests, not to appease billionaires but actually for people in parties for their interest, there would be no two party system in the US, even with FPTP. There is nothing stopping a third party from winning a seat, Bernie Sanders is proof of this. There is nothing stopping a third party from having the presidency, except the perception that a third party can’t.

If there are no democrats that are against genocide on the ballot, if there are no progressive democrats at all, then guess what; don’t vote democrat. If enough people do that, dems lose. Permanently. This does not mean republicans win.

Can you actually link to any part of anything she has posted that has told people not to vote at all?

Anywhere?

I’ll even give you her substack which is more radical than what news sites tend to select of her words.

She also is not a ‘democratic strategist.’ by any definition.

Actually I’m not suggesting not voting. I’m suggesting not voting for genocidal fascists because they have a different tie. We have tried your way for LITERALLY OVER A CENTURY. IT DOES NOT WORK.

How is ‘stating the requirements for a candidate to receive a vote’ sabotage in a democracy?

They have moved to the right every single election since Jimmy Carter, win or lose.

This election did not make a difference in that regard. FFS Bill Clinton’s ENTIRE FUCKING CAMPAIGN AND PRESIDENCY, was bending over backwards sucking off the conservative voting base trying to convince them the ‘southern democrats’ have risen again.

Hence why she lost, she did not have a base.

Wtf does population size have to do with it? It’s a percentage of any population, unless you think smaller populations are magically more mentally and physically fit

…Statistics. The number of people mentally impaired enough to no longer be able to read, which is a ridiculously intense and rare mental disability, is close to 1 in 100 million. There are not 100 million North Koreans. All ‘common’ disabilities would still allow literacy to international standards.

But totally not the head of state. Would you also like me to specify that Starmer isn’t technically head of state?

So why’d you post a paragraph of a position Kim Jung Un DOES NOT HOLD, according to your own information? He’s not the president. He’s not the head of state. He is the head of the military, appointed by congress. There are no public votes for any title he holds. His position is voted on by congress, which is voted on by the people.

His role beyond his military duties is mostly ceremonial. He does not appoint officials beyond military roles, and given it’s not a military junta by anyone’s claim…

‘Single Party’ also doesn’t mean ‘single choice,’ it means ‘singular goal.’ If your goal is something other than communism, you’re not allowed to hold elected office in any communist country. Just like communists are not allowed to hold political office in the United States, and fascist party members aren’t allowed to hold office in Germany, theoretically.

The ‘Single party’ is communism. There are multiple factions on how to achieve that, which generates the multiple candidates which are on the ballots.

Edit: also this photo has nothing to do with voting. Please stop reading ‘RadioFreeAsia,’ they are not a news source.

While conditions like that can and do exist, you are vastly over estimating their prevalence in small populations, or vastly overestimating the total population of NK.

Additionally Kim Jong Un is not the head of state and never has been, and given he’s not voted on by the public it’s never been claimed he has won an election by that percentage.

Yes, unironically. It’d eliminate most security risks currently inherent to Windows while allowing for decent customization. It would also greatly accelerate WINE and ReactOS, giving legacy software a smooth offramp from insecure older versions of windows to Linux.

A) It’s perfectly possible, Literacy rates are generalized to adult populations, if you teach every single child reported as being alive to read, then every single child you have accounted for will be able to read. Is it possible there are feral children in the woods of North Korea that exist? Sure. Is it possible there are some 90+ year old deserters living in the mountains of NK that never learned how to read under the imperial government? Sure. Is it likely? No, not really.

B) Fun fact with those ‘labor camps’ (aka prisons on par with the US, not a high bar, sure, but on par with them.) No evidence has ever been found by UN investigators that ‘generational’ punishment has happened. Ever. Not one single survivor has testified to this under oath in international court. Not one single log book has ever been found, not one single visit to the prisons has ever revealed this. This is mostly a myth created by the South Korean Government, who pays defectors for life (or imprisons them for life) depending on how willing they are to tell stories about their life to international media. The defectors that disagree with the SK narrative are usually imprisoned for life (legally they are all enemy combatants/rebels according to SK law, even the civilians, they have no rights). The ones that agree get media contracts they have to fulfill, or its off to jail. This is often why their stories are so over the top and make no logical sense.

See: Yeonmi Park as an example of someone whose entire life story has been debunked multiple times, and who has become a meme because of how incredibly easy it is to debunk any thing she has ever stated about North or South Korea. I mean the lady literally said it’s illegal to criticize the North Korean Government in South Korea…

Luckily to clear up any self-bragging confusion, test scores and thus literacy, are standardized through tests (primarily written and distributed by McGraw-Hill, which was founded by Ghislaine Maxwell’s [yes Epstein’s Ghislaine Maxwell] Father.)

That totally normal fact aside, the general measurement is reading speed across age-appropriate ‘Lexile’ levels, which is an annoying complex metric assigned to various texts based on grammar, word count, word complexity, complexity of the plot(s), and kinda general vibe.

The Hobbit is 1000L, which is the middle of a 5th grade reading level. Pretty much any fifth grade student, theoretically, should be able to read The Hobbit with little to no trouble nor the need to look up additional words; at around 130 words per minute.

For some other fun examples, Twilight is 720L (3rd grade reading level), Robinson Crusoe is 1360L (at least 7th grade), The Lord of the Rings Trilogy ranges from 810-920L (4th grade reading level, so good brag) and War and Peace, shockingly, is only 1180L.

Compulsory education provided to all people is a communist staple, to the point right-wingers tend to point to this fact as to why the US shouldn’t fund public education, since that’s communism.

NK under went the single largest reduction in population of any country in world history during the war, thanks to the ridiculously violent and thorough bombing campaign from the invaders in the south. This massive reduction in population plus total state control of remote villages for security (due to constant incursions from the South necessitating security in all remote areas) means getting supplies to those areas becomes a priority, and there aren’t many supplies needed to accomplish goals like the massive education and literacy programs of the 1970s and 80s that, for a time, accelerated past China’s own accomplishments, and by percentage of population beat the USSR’s record.

Or, if you want the neoliberal explanation, it is easier to brainwash those poor wittle villwagers if they can read the pwopaganda and not just listen to it.

Done. I held up my GPS-enabled smart phone I paid $50 for 10 years ago to my eye line, better yet I was able to get a real-time preview of the angle of the picture to ensure everything’s in shot.

So now I have to stab every person wearing airpods if I don’t want to be spied on by the Five Eyes intelligence agencies?

Every day I’m thankful US tech is less and less popular outside the west.

Have you ever met an executive? Have you ever met any actual capitalist?

They aren’t particularly smart people. They just have no physical capability for empathy. That is how they can exist. AI is good enough to reduce workload. It is fantastic especially at correcting speech and translating.

You know what worker class needs corrected speech and translating but otherwise can be taught to do most office and entry level jobs? Outsourced workers.

Companies slowed outsourcing customer-facing positions due to backlash from obvious accents and poor cross-cultural training. AI has allowed them full steam ahead. While real time voice masking is a little expensive right now, AI chat agents are good enough to be used while having an outsourced worker listen in, feed ‘correct’ lines to the AI (or simply skip incorrect lines) and actually perform the actions.

GAN ML is also good enough, as it turns out, to figure out how to complete many office tasks with full desktop screen captures.

If you combine these two things, and add a little marketing spin, what you have is a very clear plan to eliminate 50-70% of labor cost in the US – that is the majority of customer service and office administration workers.

Right now it’s AI facing, (statistically) Indian outsourced agent backed solutions. Eventually those outsourced agents – which have the totality of their job recorded, every mouse click, every key press, every single word said to their coworkers and managers, every single blink, all to train AI – will be out of a job too.

Nevermind this ends capitalism, as without a consumer base there will be no companies, but oh wait, techbros and capitalists are pushing for UBI. . . Isn’t that weird they’d be pushing an objectively socialist idea… I wonder if that’s related.

They called me crazy for insisting on ensuring all of our companies files compress to 10,000 separate 64KiB xz compressed files. Well who’s laughing now?!