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Looking forward to see how you'll imprison the German government for continuing to purchase oil from Russia through shell companies like Gazprombank.
I think you don't understand how sanctions work.
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sure, Im not saying that they do make it right. I am pointing out the conspicuous hypocrisy that people don't feel that they have blood on their hands for paying US taxes, but aiding NK in any way is a mortal sin.
I find this comparison extremely weird. North korean prisons are described as hellholes whereas US prisons actually seem decent to me (eastern european) if we exclude that you likely won't have the best of company. Plus that only a small amount of taxes go towards the prison system.
based on what? Places like Angola or San Quentin are as brutal as any gulag.
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This. A lot of people seems to think that the USA bans everyone in the world to trade with cuba, even if they could buy an Havann Club in the store.
While USA does not ban everyone from doing trade with Cuba, USA does ban everyone who trades with Cuba from doing trade with the US. You can clearly see how this creates insentives for not trading with Cuba and instead trading with the far larger market next to it.
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How are bullets and war different?
Sanctions are war.
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No news sources are entirely unbiased, even when they make an effort to be. Regardless, we know a lot from NK from multiple sources. The main reason we don't know more is because of how closed that dictatorship is.
Or how closed we are to them? There is no media unbiased about them in the west. But I do know you can travel to NK and see for yourself. That said, it is easier to know things about Portugal than NK. They are definitely doing something to hide information. I'm just trying to say that any image based on the media from non friendly country is bound to be wrong. No matter how much different sources you have.
you're also not allowed to travel without a guide.
also, given the videos I've seen taken by tourists when they've been able to sneak away from their minders, NK does not look very happy.
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"Man involved in community that regularly gets away with illegal shit surprised when he goes to jail for illegal shit" I'm definitely not defending him, but I can see why he'd feel confident not getting caught
It sucks but the world seems to punish people who are honest (like this guy) and help people who lie (like everyone who did what this guy did and lied about it). In the same vein, police get away with brutal abuse because they know what lies to tell to justify it ("I felt afraid for my life", etc). But the police would not get away with it if they told the truth, ("They showed me disrespect and I knew I wasn't going…
This is so sad, how does locking him up for 5 years really helps anyone? or keep anyone safer? He did something stupid maybe, but his work was exploring how digital systems can help bring peace to the world, and he thought a good place for that to happen is NK, so who doesn't agree with that? None of the information he presented was secret, it was all publicly available. For comparison here is a company that actually…
> but his work was exploring how digital systems can help bring peace to the world Surely nobody is that naive? Wars and sanctions aren't a technical problem that can be "solved" with a "digital system".
Maybe you haven't met someone with high-functioning autism. Being naive is essentially a symptom.