So was he voting under someone else’s name+address?

tRump wouldn’t be able to do a regime change here

You don’t think the CIA has bot nets, money, and assets in your media capable of ensuring an acceptable candidate wins the election? Weird how rarely leaders hostile to the US are elected in the west, despite having a direct conflict of interest, and how if they are elected, they’re never able to actually accomplish anything.

Then again, maybe the senile old man will just order the military to kidnap Justin Trudeau.

You’d risk sanctions and regime change? I mean cool, but there’s a reason nobody steps in to help whoever the US is kicking around, except countries already getting sanctions.

I have a russian coworker that goes back every year to visit her family. She too insists that russia is awesome and it’s even better since the war started

Bizarre. I don’t know any Russians who haven’t commented on the increased propaganda and how expensive everything’s gotten. Apparently there’s more diverse brands in stores now tho lol. Do they at least mention how expensive everything is?

I’m sure all those places aren’t as bad as American media makes them out to be, but they’re not as peachy as their side says either.

That’s literally my only point here. There’s people who think NK is full of mustache-twirling villains who execute you if you watch a TV show.

Shit, I’m back in Tokyo now, would you direct me to the closest secret Chinese police station?

I have no judgement because I have no reliable data

I have no idea why you’re so interested in making North Korea seem like a great place

You understand the difference here right? Not immediately dropping your pants and jerking off while grunting about how bad and evil America’s enemies are isn’t the same as withholding judgement on something you don’t have reliable data on.

North Koreans have to escape to tell their stories

I’ve never heard from a North Korean in a country where they don’t risk prison if they don’t tell the right story, but presumably there are North Koreans telling their stories in North Korea, Jilin, and Vladivostok, that we haven’t heard.

you should definitely move to China since you love it so much :)

Eh, I wouldn’t want to tie myself to a single place.

Tank man? The guy who blocked the column of tanks leaving Tienanmen Square, then climbed on top of the tank to yell at the tank commander?

IDK, the tank commanders are probably trained to hide in the tank if someone climbs on top. It’d probably look goofier as the guy runs around the top trying to get in while the commander asks him to leave.

China was never the ‘bad guy’

I will argue this to libs all day long, but with actual leftists, there’s a lot of “critical” when it comes to critically supporting China, especially if you’re looking at historical foreign policy after the sino-soviet split.

Just read first-hand accounts from the many people that have escaped the country

Those accounts aren’t credible because at any time they can called a spy and imprison. Also because they include laughable claims like that there is only 1 train in North Korea, which they have to pull by hand and “In North Korea, every room has to have a portrait of the Kims. The inspector comes out of nowhere in the middle of the night and touches the portraits. If they see any dust… you can get executed.”

The same person making those claims also says their friends entire family was executed in a stadium for watching TV.

If they literally make it illegal for their citizens to have real Internet

Alternatively, they’re just trying to avoid the US using the internet to feed their citizens propaganda and organize a color revolution, as they constantly do to all of there adversaries.

I continue to have no judgement on what NK is like because again, no reliable data.

Travel to North Korea is tightly controlled by the North Korean government, you are NOT allowed to go out of the allowed areas and while you are there you are monitored at all times by the North Korean government.

For Americans maybe, that’s why I’ll talk to Chinese who aren’t such a risk when I return to China. I met a Russian who had the same shock upon seeing she was lied to about China and wanted to go to NK, I wouldn’t be surprised if Russians can travel somewhat freely in NK either.

Sure, was this after they required everyone in North Korea get Dear Leader’s haircut, while also executing anybody who got his haircut?

Western news sources are not reliable when covering America’s enemies. I will develop an opinion when I talk to people who’ve traveled there, and aren’t in danger of being thrown in prison/executed if they don’t promote the state department line.

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.

Its unlikely that NK is a nice place to live, but 98% of the stuff we hear is obviously fake or wildly taken out of context.

Do all the countries you believe ridiculous things about happen to be enemies of the US that you’ve never been to?

I was going to add “or met someone from”, but you could probably find a Cuban in Miami who’d say Castro executed their entire family for watching tv.

Do you really believe North Korea executes people for watching TV?

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)

What kind of help exists that won’t simply drain their bank accounts?

I haven’t looked into this particular agreement, but historically arms treaties included verification, limited by what both parties would accept for verification. IIRC, since neither country wanted to let foreign inspectors into their ICBM silos, SALT had the US and USSR dismantle ICBMs where satellites could see.

How long to redesign the door with regular handles?

Like a day? Car door handles are a pretty mature technology.

What do you do with the ones already built? Replace the whole door?

Yes, you do a staged recall, using the previous recalled doors as material to build the new ones.

But I suspect the law will have a grandfather clause, theres a lot of chinese cars that copied Tesla’s mistakes.

Tesla will just add regular handles to chinese models, they have factories in China just for the chinese market.

I expect Tesla will continue to decline in the chinese market tho, even now its only bought as a form of conspicuous consumption.

“Jeffrey Epstein wearing a cap with a red Soviet star.”

It’s a chinese hat lmao.