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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Obviously it's because China and North Korea, being totalitarian dictatorships, have made suicide illegal and punishable by death!

(I have literally met someone who thought that suicide is punishable by death in China. Like if you try to kill yourself and survive they'll finish the job for you.)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I always find it fascinating how readily people in the west will believe the most patently absurd things about countries they've been told to hate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's because they're raised from birth having only heard these absurd notions and many never consider if they are truly absurd or not. It's kinda sad.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

And it's of course projection as always, for example, suicide was illegal in UK till 1961, and most other western countries also criminalised it at some points in the past.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Pretty much all the crazy accusations the west levels against the adversaries have either happened or are currently happening in the west.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those downvoters would be very radicalized if they could absorb information critical of capitalism.

:KingOfTheHillMeme:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

A quick search on google proved really quickly that these numbers are incorrect.

Feel free to look it up yourself.

Edit: op edited the image.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Reason: Mis or disinformation. These numbers are not correct.

Seeing how you found such evidence, feel free to provide it, or it didn’t happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

From Wikipedia:

In many countries, suicide rates are underreported due to social stigma, cultural or legal concerns.[3] Thus, these figures cannot be used to compare real suicide rates, which are unknown in most countries.

China Asia 6.7

North Korea Asia 8.2

South Korea Asia 21.2

And it didn't list numbers for Taiwan

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know what you're completely right. Fixed the numbers and added sources in the description.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

WHAAAAT? Someone from sh.itjust.works is not a turbolib?