So then...
Jan. 30th, 2024 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rain_gryphonSo, in North Korea they have a "youth coal mine", where kids can prove their loyalty to the Tubby Tyrant by digging coal, all to advance the majesty of the Glorius North Korean People, as one naturally longs to do. One shaft had been closed as dangerous. They decided to re-open it, the better to hit their government-mandated production targets. Because it was dangerous, they decided to send only orphans to work in it, apparently without any training. You know what happened next.
This just breaks my brain. It's like they're trying, with desperate ingenuity and enthusiasm, to be the most over the top hellscape of a country imaginable.
I would honestly love to visit the place, but I know I'd never get out alive.
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The whole "let's send African police to Haiti" thing seems to have quietly died. I doubt that it's much of a loss, really.
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This just breaks my brain. It's like they're trying, with desperate ingenuity and enthusiasm, to be the most over the top hellscape of a country imaginable.
I would honestly love to visit the place, but I know I'd never get out alive.
*****
The whole "let's send African police to Haiti" thing seems to have quietly died. I doubt that it's much of a loss, really.
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