Say it with me, diversity of tactics. You will achieve nothing by simply NOT voting either

I'm flabbergasted

The question was about whether or not addicts are capable of thinking rationally. As someone who grew up with heroin addict parents and struggles with addiction myself, I promise you I know what I'm talking about.

I'm sorry, but you're wrong. Addicts are perfecrly capable of thinking rationally. Acting rationally is another thing, but the desire for more heroin becomes a PHYSICAL need. And your.body and mind have a hard time rationalizing NOT taking something that every signal in your body tells you that you need. A heroin addict trying to kick heroin is akin to you trying to quit eating food. Nobody misread your post, they just all knew more than you.

I'm going to save you some time and frustration and just let you know: You're being down voted because you seem to be treating drug addiction like a personal failing rather than the disease that it is.

Knowing the thing you are addicted to could kill you is not a significant deterrence when you are addicted to something like heroin. You just feel terrified and also addicted. Clearly you don't understand addiction, and shouldn't be passing judgement on to others.

I didn't say any of this stuff except the word "propaganda" I was thanking you for the resources. This is what I was trying to politely convey to you though. Maybe don't turn everything into an argument, you know? I have no idea why you assume I'm some kind of "marketplace of ideas guy" when I've been dropping hints all over the place that I'm an anarchist.

Critiquing government policy, generally freely expressing grievances about the ruling class, etc. Yeah, pretty much that. I don't think it's strange for me to assume that journalism should exist as a non-governmental entity meant to keep authority in check. Otherwise it's just disseminating government propaganda which is something we should be wary in any system. Thank you for being helpful and giving me resources. I didn't even know these resources existed, and I feel like if some of your peers would come off as genuinely helpful (as you have) rather than gate-keepy and condescending, then ya'll would probably have a different reputation around these parts. Thank you, comrade.

Are there NO news agencies in DPRK that challenge authority? I feel like that's one of the most important things that journalism can do in a society, and without that there really isn't any journalism. Can you provide me with one of those sources so I can properly contrast with KCNA?

I'm just looking for good news sources dude. Nobody seems to be able to provide that

You can call independent journalism private as an epithet all you want, but I'm still not going to trust North Korean BBC to report truthfully about North Korea the same as I'm not going to trust actual BBC to report truthfully about Britain. States are gonna state.

The video you linked is a fun watch, but it also starts from a pov assuming that I automatically believe what corporate and state media in the imperial core has told me about the DPRK and I already don't. The first 10 minutes are just talking about the U.S. media talking about NK, then there's less than 1min of footage actually in North Korea, the majority of which is just b-roll, and not a single interview with a Korean, then the rest of the video is just a pretty good discussion about why the kinds of things western countries do and the kinds of things that the DPRK does are just the kinds of things that countries do. Which again, I agree with all of that, but a good discussion.

What I'm not seeing is any kind of actual North Korean talking about their daily lives, or things they like or dislike about where they live, ways they want to participate, the people in their lives they love, or anything else really.

It's not a distrust of socially owned media, it's a distrust of states. I don't trust any government to give me facts about what's happening in their own country. In a place where people are allowed to independently investigate and publish their own findings or even their own opinions, I can at get an idea of how a variety of common folks I've and feel within their systems. I can't find a source like that for DPRK

How can that be possible? There are plenty of news sources here that aren't backed by corporations nor governments. Obviously we have a problem with bias in media globally, but it's not ALL media. I'm more looking for the North Korean equivalent of, like, Counterpunch, Common Dreams, Real News Network, or hell, even Democracy Now.