Even the libs know RFA is bullshit.

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Because it's a mysterious hermit kingdom dictatorship and......oriental. :frothingfash:

    • Gosplan14 [any]
      ·
      3 years ago

      https://sabukaru.online/articles/the-insane-history-of-polish-movie-posters

      99% of these are pre-1989 and almost all western

      • Tervell [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Hah, love this line:

        Fine art was now basically censored by the stalinist regime. But luckily there was a surprising twist of events that created an amazing loophole. The state owned film industry ... hired artists to work on poster designs for movies, but they absolutely didn’t care what they would look like.

        Ah, so art was censored, except these numerous cases of it not being censored which I am writing a whole article about. Like, how do you even write those sentences without something going off in your mind about the blatant contradiction?

        • Vncredleader
          ·
          3 years ago

          The Stalinist regime of Khrushchev era USSR

          • Tervell [he/him]
            ·
            3 years ago

            No, you see, all socialists are stalinists. Lenin? A stalinist. The Paris commune? A stalinist project. Marx? Stalinist.

            • NPa [he/him]
              ·
              3 years ago

              Stalin? Surprisingly not Stalinist.

              • blobjim [he/him]
                ·
                3 years ago

                Stalin wasn't a real Stalinist. Trotsky should have succeeded Lenin as the rightful Stalinist leader of the USSR!

              • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
                ·
                3 years ago

                Stalin was actually a devout follower of Juan Posadas, much to the chagrin of liberals who believe in revisionist concepts like linear time.

        • SoyViking [he/him]
          ·
          3 years ago

          The evil tankie Stalinist regime censored the arts, except the art that had the most exposure to the public. It makes perfect sense.

          • StellarTabi [none/use name]
            ·
            3 years ago

            В период с 1961 по 1982 годы «Над пропастью во ржи» стала самой запрещаемой книгой в школах и библиотеках США.

        • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
          ·
          3 years ago

          The principle that Fascist organizations can't accurately assess their opponents because their ideology requires that the enemy be simultaneously strong and weak is proven yet again.

      • blobjim [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        The solidarnosac-ish movie posters are so blursed.

        • Gosplan14 [any]
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          3 years ago

          Those aren't movie posters, I believe. They were used during the anti-abortion ban protests as Poland is very lib brained and solidarnosc is seen as a positive force in history.

  • happybadger [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    In North Korea, the only comedy show is Kim Jong Un insisting that he is a pickle for 30 minutes. Citizens are required to say it's the funniest shit they've ever seen. Those who don't are executed along with their pets.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        edit-2
        3 years ago

        "I declare as the General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea that I am a pickle. The 14th Term of the Supreme People's Assembly has certified that I am a pickle. According to my father's speech, Socialism of Our Country is a Socialism of Our Style as Embodied by the Juche idea, a central principle of forming a nation guided by the Juche idea is creating a new style of person and I am a pickle. It is now mandatory to be a pickle."

    • kristina [she/her]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      pretty sure i saw a pic of it being played on a big tv in a park in pyongyang and one of the party organs writing a review of it

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
    ·
    3 years ago

    North Korea is great for capitalist scaremongering because they're so reclusive that you can just make up any horrible shit about them

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
      ·
      3 years ago

      I heard that in North Korea, a fire drill is literally a flaming drill that they use to bore a hole into your head so they can fill it with communism

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      They also don't care about what people say because they're to busy doing their own thing. They just keep building defensive armament and developing their internal economy totally removed from the global spectacle

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    You are trying to make sense of dictatorship?
    It could be because you breathed wrong and you would be sentenced to death.
    Stupid take to defend North Korea.

    Unironic "Well, no one can make sense of those inscrutable orientals"

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      Here we see a specimen of a liberal argument, you will notice that it is devoid of any shred of evidence whatsoever.

    • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      I hate that comment so much. I see that more and more too, if some propaganda about another country just doesn't make sense, they go, "oh it just doesn't have to make any sense, you're supposed to assume total ideological incoherence in the enemy, so that you can make any story work."

      • nohaybanda [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Well I have an utterly incoherent and ahistorical world view, so it's only natural to assume everyone else does as well. --- libs

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
    ·
    3 years ago

    There's that one comment that's literally just five paragraphs of McKinley Spook Speak and it's like :jesse-wtf:

    • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      3 years ago

      It immediately got called out too, and I'm dying laughing at some fucking boomer, end of his career, dipshit typing out all this like "fuck yeah, that'll sure rally those gen z commies to our side!" and the crushing defeat in his soul after reading the next comment.

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    "That’s like saying BBC World Service or Deutsche Welle are propaganda. RFA. RFE/RL, VOA and the like are funded by the State Department but are generally granted editorial independence. The Trump appointee who led the U.S. Agency for Global Media was a hack, sure, and tried his darndest to gut these agencies and turn them into propaganda arms but he’s gone now.

    A bunch of relatives of RFA journalists have been disappeared by China for their reporting on Xinjiang. They’re the only broadcaster outside of China that broadcasts in the Uyghur language. So yeah, they’re legit."

    :puke:

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      They’re the only broadcaster outside of China that broadcasts in the Uyghur language

      So, where are the rest? Oh. In China. Literally all the state media outlets.

      • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        people lied to me when they said the comments were good lol they're libshit as always

    • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
      ·
      3 years ago

      rubbing my hands and smiling deviously thinking of all the scams i could easily get this naive bastard to fall for

  • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    is it just me or do they just use this shit as a cynical marketing campaign now? i cant count the times ive seen the headline "North Korean executed for owning/watching [SEMI-SUBVERSIVE TRENDY MEDIA PROPERTY YOU LOVE]" and im starting to feel like its just an easy way to advertise said media. remember when "north korean hackers" apparently tried to launch a cyberattack on the whitehouse(?) in response to The Interview??? The fucking d-tier Seth Rogen comedy movie nobody remembers?? me neither, because it didn't happen. it was just a PR campaign for gullible people

    • ClathrateG [none/use name]
      ·
      3 years ago

      https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/qxtvt9/seth_rogen_and_others_believe_crowd_strike_is/

      • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        The Interview was one of the first movies to use a (likely astroturfed) “you need to watch this movie to own the [group you don’t like]” campaign.

        u/GrumpyOldHistoricist sums it up perfectly in that thread

      • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        ..and youre not allowed to question/disagree with it either. The post-WW2 American "human rights" guilt complex keeps people in step

  • newmou [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    For some reason all the "pending" comments are the ones calling out this bullshit propaganda. WONDER WHY

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    NORTH KOREA LITERALLY PRAISED SQUID GAME

    PICK A LINE OF PROPAGANDA AND STICK WITH IT

    :juche-WPK:

    • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Lemme see. I want to own the libs with the DPRK's official statement on it but I haven't been able to find it.

  • OllieMendes [he/him,any]
    ·
    3 years ago

    I think the gamers would crawl over broken glass while saying communism good if it gave them a chance to shit on Kotaku.

  • MalarkeyDetected [none/use name]
    ·
    3 years ago

    Keep in mind that virtually every state-media outlet claims editorial independence, regardless of all the evidence to the contrary.

    For example, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe, Open Technology Fund, Voice of America, Current Time TV, Alhurra, Radio Sawa, and Radio Televisión Martí are all part of the US Agency for Global Media (formerly known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors), which requires its outlets through its top broadcasting standards to be “consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States” along with its broadcasting principle of “The capability to provide a surge capacity to support United States foreign policy objectives during crises abroad”.

    USAGM’s CEO is appointed by the U.S. President. The current CEO is Kelu Chao, who was appointed by Biden and has been reinstalling many of the USAGM executives at Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe that were purged by the former CEO Michael Pack (Trump's appointee).