my grandma once put like a thousand dollars in a managed fund thing for me so yeah im a capitalist

anyway i was at my mums place yesterday and she was showing me this book she was almost finished reading in her book club about kim jong un and supposedly the dynastic politics that led him to be able to take and hold power. authors credentials include 8 years as washington post beijing bureau chief lol

i mentioned the american bombing campaign and she had never heard of it, and we looked up the index and the whole korean war was mentioned only in passing. imagine writing a whole fucking book about how a political dynasty is able to create and maintain a stable dynastic hold on power for 70 years across three generations without even touching on the utter destruction of that country by an external enemy and how that contextualises the continued threat that external enemy still poses, and then how those events and their consequences might stabilise internal support for a dynasty that has continued to (somewhat successfully) resist that external enemy

anyway as a capitalist, i implore you not to read this book for us and then definitely dont tell us exactly how shallow and brain-poisoned the narrative actually is so we can laugh at it