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[–] 33 points 6 months ago

The evil communists are repressing the hardworking suicide booth owners from making a killing profit and an honest living.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago

    All the shitlibs are suddenly weirdly pro suicide.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I love how rankled all the libs get when they see this.

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    [–] 15 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    To all the people reading through this comment section believing that China and the DPRK are obviously lying about their suicide rates consider that you might be believing this with very little evidence. Unless you can show otherwise there is no actual reasonable evidence that proves in any way that they are indeed lying about this information.

    Instead of following your gut actually take a step back and consider all the evidence you have that proves these countries are lying about there own statistics. The truth isn't always easy to find, conspiracy theorists believe insane theories such as covid is fake because they mindlessly follow what they have been told without good evidence. I'm not telling you to become a communist I'm just telling you to always consider that everything you have been told your whole life could be wrong. Maybe the flat earthers were right all along.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    They probably aren't lying , but that doesn't mean living there is better , it might just be an ideological problem Life in a middle eastern war torn Muslim Country is a living hell so why won't you just kill your self ? , u can't Suicide in islam is a great sin and people don't suicide even if they want too Same might be true for people in China or North Korea or maybe life is just simpler there so no one suicides !

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Oh no it "might" be bad. Theoretically. If everyone's brains suddenly worked differently somehow. Then it would maybe be bad. Otherwise it's good.

    But even in your wildest worst-case-scenario-plus-made-up-stuff fantasies, the capitalist countries are still worse.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    What if people commit suicide less in china and the DPRK because their lives are actually better? Is it not at least worth considering the possibility that people in these countries are happier? And what makes Chinese and Koreans simpler people than people from there capitalist counterparts, I think all humans are smart and complex individuals with deep, emotional personalities.

    As well I think that people consider suicide due to feeling oppressed, unvalued and alienated. Therefore, the difference between societies with high and low suicide rates is a result of how well the society helps it's lowest and most oppressed members.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    It could be , for example if the gov provides a house , food and medical care life would be simpler and I guess in NK every one has a job and don't have to deal with BS corporate shit and HR assholes so life is simpler there so less suicide

    the difference between societies with high and low suicide rates is a result of how well the society helps it’s lowest and most oppressed members. yes absolutely , with an exception to muslim societies Seriously the only reason I haven't commited suicide is the miniscule Tiny Hair connecting me to islam , no matter what opressed unlucky indivisual you know I'm 10x more , u can ask u will be suprised

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Sorry but Im not following your train of thought. Are you saying that the govenment providing housing, food and medical to people who need it, is not making a better place to live, it is just making a simpler place to live?

    Of so what would make a place actually better to live?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Afghanistan's suicide rate is 1.84. Palestine is at 0.77, Syria at 0.94. These places must be heaven on Earth then!

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    why is this important at all? who fucking cares that suicide is legal or not when trying to kill yourself? you're gonna die bro, what you plan on committing suicide but you're afraid of some legal bullshit?

    what country are you from? is suicide legal? is that your first thought when you're depressed? are you some sort of euthanasia propagandist? i dont eve get where your going with this

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Lmao incredible

    Data: Hey, it looks like people in this capitalist country kill themselves way, way more than the people in this socialist country right next door

    Real Democracy Loving Patriots™: That's because those poor bastards in Communist Badcountry don't have the FREEDOM to kill themselves😤

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    I am sure these figures are accurate and can be trusted. There's no way the Chinese or North Korean government would ever lie about these figures.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    Part of the ideology of white-supremacy, is that proximity to whiteness means trustworthiness and authenticity, and distance from it means untrustworthiness.

    So white supremacists think only the western countries (and their allies like South Korea, Japan, and other US military base countries) data and educational institutions can be trusted, while the numbers coming from any country opposed to them must inherently be a lie.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    The framing and double-standard is chauvinist and bad.

    But there are reasons to be skeptical of suicide stats worldwide due to cultural ideas and norms around suicide. Like, look at the US. It was common practice for coroners to put accident as cause of death even if it was clearly suicide - and still is, to some degree. Only recently have statisticians began including certain other cases of "accidental" death as suicide (some single car crashes, gun "accidents", ODs, etc).

    And different countries have different methods for reporting out on suicide. It's not founded to say countries are intentionally skewing suicide stats, but it would be constructive to be skeptical about how those figures were arrived at before believing memes without citations.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I would have no issue with them saying suicide stats are often inaccurate due to x, y, or z reason.

    What they instead chose to say was the typical chauvinist bullshit of the evil Asiatic hoardes in China and the DPRK can't be trusted to report anything truthfully nonsense.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    i genuinely dont know if youre a serious liberal or a comrade joking

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  • [+] -12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Not reporting accurate information is not the same thing

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