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  • I do not speak Nepali, but that is indeed the Nepali script.

  • Reminds me of a DPR Korean quote that is eternally relevant:

    When a certain country has lost its own sovereignty, it is an empty talk to discuss about the rights of the people in the country and their provision.

    -- Understanding Korea Book 9 (Human Rights)

  • World War in Syria by AB Abrams is an in-depth, albeit slightly outdated, primer on Syria. It is available for free download on Anna's Archive.

  • I've never had problems with Temu. It's good for buying little tech trinkets or clothing for cheap.

  • On a side note, how is it like to pursue a graduate degree in China and how does it differ from the USA?

  • This idea of human goodness being something exceptional to the US also plays a role in USians considering themselves a morally upright "world police".

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml

    What happened to Juche years on KCNA?

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml

    Damascus has fallen

  • The communists we should be mourning are the ones of the Tudeh party which were indeed executed by the Islamic government, although I'm not sure how much of a hand Raisi had in that. He is much more known for executions of MEK, which is not a communist group and is rather a US and Israeli-backed organization which has no real ideology other than opposing the IRI.

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml

    PSA: The DPRK is not Gay/lesbian-friendly

  • Liberalization was around August I believe so the crisis you linked wasn't a direct result of the liberalization. Its evils took a while to accumulate, but I know family members whose former prosperous factory cities have become ghost towns due to deindustrialization after the License Raj ended.

  • Correction: Iran isn't transphobic, trans surgery is legalized there by a fatwa from Khomeini himself. It is homophobic however.

  • Of course, the DPRK is a small economy but don't get confused with Western GDP measures. A lot of times, due to the state subsidies and the fact that socialist currencies can't really be exchanged for global/western ones at a fixed rate the GDP rates are severely underestimated. Officially the KPW to USD ratio is 8000:1 but a lot of things you'd get for a dollar in USA you'd get for maybe 500KPW in the DPRK, as well as the added effect of subsidies. When China opened up it immediately had a gigantic growth in GDP figures, not because of actual economic growth (that came later) but because the Renminbi was market tradable and the RMB to USD rate was now more accurate.

    But yes I agree that the DPRK having a small economy does have an impact. Also oops, I suck at percentages. Fixed.

  • 1991

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml

    Despite extreme sanctions, the DPRK is growing like crazy

  • Absolute banger KCNA article by the way, I recommend everyone read the whole thing.

  • Still waiting for my xi bucks

  • After liberalization destroyed the little industry India had developed during state capitalism we basically had nothing to offer the world except for cheap software engineers.

  • Yes I support a 2 state solution: Syria controls Golan heights Everything else is Palestine

  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml

    What does Project 2025 mean for MLs and other progressives?

  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml

    How do socialist countries prevent unemployment while still increasing innovation?

  • Communism is not love. It is a hammer we use to crush our balls. -Mao Zedong

  • The term dronie is gaining traction within left-wing spaces and I love it

  • A family of nazis/slaveowners is one that deserves to be spied on

  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml

    Thoughts on Turkmenistan?

  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml

    Is the US going to full war economy in 2025?

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml

    Political messaging aside, this graph shows the DPRK's commitment to increasing wages for state employees over time