lol
https://archive.is/2jkFm
North Korea should flex on capitalist countries more often, hell they should lurk here to get ideas.
I believe they already do it a lot, we just rarely hear about it.
They do, you can check their official English media outlets and find tons of stuff that we talk about here covered. They're plugged into the world.
Yeah, I distinctly remember reading the Pyongyang Times last year about the George Floyd killing and the BLM protests and it was honestly a great read.
How do you access the Pyongyang times? I can't get a connection ...
This works for me. I just googled Pyongyang times. Idr how I was doing it 3 years ago though lol
So nice of Kim to share his Netflix password with the rest of the country :kim-peace:
My understanding is that's shockingly close to accurate, except with a private tracker
Cuba does this too, if you pay a small fee they give you like a terabyte harddrive with a shit load of pirated movies and shows and it's like monthly
I don't think it's state sponsored, if anything cuban authorities just turn a fat eye. Regardless it is extremely cool, cubans not only watch whatever is on netflix by sharing drives, they also have wired extensive WANs themselves just to play online games like DoTA, I wouldn't mind doing that kind of shit for a living. Let me dig if I can find the youtube video.
Here we go, Havana's StreetNet, it goes relatively nitty gritty too. No Vox Johnny Harris shit either
https://youtu.be/lEplzHraw3c
That rocks lmao. Imagine buying shamelessly pirated media from the fucking government 🏴☠️
Squid Game Showrunner: This show is about how bad capitalism is.
DPRK: Yeah, look at how bad capitalism is!
WaPo: Oh look, more North Korean PROPAGANDA
The best part is that they just had to include a half-starved N. Korean refugee character so everyone would know North Is Bad. And yet they've implicitly valorized and martyred her by the end of the show.
There's specifically a line in which the NK character is asked, in words similar to this, "are things better here? was it worth escaping?" and her reply is just silence. So, yeah, that person probably didn't see that scene yet or is willfully ignoring it.
There’s another line later on that I won’t spoil that expresses her wish to return
In my recollection the north korean character, when asked if things are really as bad as people say, stares silently leaving the audience to fill in the blank. Kind of weak imo.
I mean, during that scene they're surrounded by people getting executed in a fake alleyway while a big timer ticks down in the sky, I don't really know how much more direct you can get.
"Damn, it's even worse than this? That's crazy"
--average American viewer
That beats getting shot after I pushed the big train in a circle to its one stop, only to be revived through Juche necromancy and do it all again tomorrow
She also says something along the lines of "I was told things were good here..."
I just finished it and
spoiler
she says she wants to go home on the second to last chapter, whether that means exiting the squid game or going back to North Korea is up for interpretation
I thought their dig at electoralism was just beautiful. When they get to vote on whether to continue the death games, you expect them to pull some shenanigans and rig the vote or something, but it turns out that it's just an actual vote. It looks like a choice between opposites, and I had a moment of genuine confusion when they voted to end the games and they ended the games. It looks so much like a choice between two opposites that I was thinking the message was going to be to :vote:, but the options aren't really opposites and voting doesn't solve anything.
Starve on the street or get shot in the head? You have to vote, it's important.
The old man voted to let everyone else out, because he suspected they'd be coming right back for the same reasons they got sucked in to begin with.
Guessing Libs will just dismiss this as "lol pot calling the kettle black"
100% guarantee any post about this on reddit is filled to the absolute brim with this exact comment.
lol pot calling the kettle black”
"pol pot calling the kettle black” :kelly:
Goddamn click bait headline. One paragraph addresses the head and the other 16 paragraphs are just a newsvertisement for the bestest most-watched show on Netflix!
"In the south, capitalists repackage anti-capitalist sentiment as a product to sell" is not a slam anyway.
Correction: the prize was not a billion dollars.
It was 38 million.
400 people ran into their brutal deaths to achieve the wealth of a 2nd generation mid-sized business owner.
All through the show I was looking up the amounts of money and being like “That’s a lot of money, but it’s not that much”
At one point, it is implied that the super-successful cut-throat scholar guy already had this kind of money and just pissed it away. They also implied that some form of vice or debauchery was behind a significant number of the participants' financial positions. Even the ultra-wealthy audience members are written as removed gamblers, hedonists, and gluttons - just ones able to stay above water.
There is a certain undertone to the show that suggests the prize money won't really satisfy or solidify their futures, because the underlying social ills are never addressed only exploited.
