https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/w6m89t/-/ihfbtlr

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Me, handing a USB containing "Boss Baby" to a terrified DPRK woman: "I know, I know, they'll execute you if they see this, but trust me, it'll change your life. Come and find me soon, there's more where this came from ;)"

    • The_Dawn [fae/faer, des/pair]
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      2 years ago

      because these people have achieved the Culture Victory in civ 5 too many times and its rotted their brains

      Our people are wearing your blue jeans,,,,

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Are you telling me F9 isn't a cultural and technical masterpiece that transcends culture?

      What about the Super Mario Brothers movie?

  • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Imagine being in the DPRK and finding a thumbdrive and hoping it's the last season of breaking bad but no it's just another one full of PragerU videos.

  • Shoegazer [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Titanic, the movie about how the wretched of the earth have more humanity than the capitalists?

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      although the movie does leave out the fact that the lower class passengers were barricaded in the lower levels while they evacuated the upper class patrons

      • Indifference_Engine [comrade/them, any]
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        2 years ago

        Does it? I could've sworn I remembered a scene where Leo gets trapped in the flooding lower levels with a bunch of other steerage passengers by some asshole locking a gate, though it has been like two decades since I saw Titanic.

        • SerLava [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I really just remember like, one asshole doing it to leo, I don't remember a crowd of people getting locked in

        • KoeRhee [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          There is a scene where the poorer passengers get locked into the lower levels, yes. Leo doesn't suffer from this because he's constantly hanging out with the rich ppl, but he is arrested a cuffed to a radiator after being accused of stealing by the girl's jealous fiance.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    This is like that thing where christian evangelicals in the us got obsessed with dropping pamphlets into Cuba, only somehow even dumber and more deranged. Like, at least many Cubans are actually Catholic, the fuck kind of revolution is going to happen because they got to watch a young Leo DiCaprio plow Kate Winslet in a car below deck of the Titanic, a ship that sank because of capitalist greed more than anything else.

    • KoeRhee [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Converting the people in a communist country by showing them a film where the poor people are locked below decks in a sinking ship and forced to die because there are only enough life boats for rich people (which they don't even fill properly).

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      On the other hand you look at how successful Christian missionaries managed to convert people in Africa. Yes you are right believe the story told by the white male about the old white male with a beard living in the sky that promises you'll live in heaven and eternity if only you follow exactly what this book written by the most racist institution on the planet ever, I don't even think there is any rational explanation how one squares being a third world Christian with colonialism and slavery and yet.

      It is sad and unfortunate but also very obvious why it works, material conditions, indoctrination, history etc.

  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Me, watching a TV show from another country: "Damn, they make television over there too? Guess I'll defect."

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    i believe none of this anymore. i'm open to explainations of the truth from a reputable source.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    "Sir, demand for flash drives is tanking, everyone just transfers data over the network. What can we do to save our company?"

    :cap-think:

  • CommCat [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Remember this from a few years ago, I was watching the Unicorn Riot youtube channel and they were interviewing a person from one of their booths (flashdrives for the DPRK) at a tech-"activist" fair. It's a project by big money "NGO" Human Rights Foundation which targets the usual US targets (China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK etc...).

  • InsideOutsideCatside [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Very cool spending 10 minutes posting against these morons only to realize that my new reddit account, which worked on the onepunchman subreddit, is now shadow banned because none of these morons are responding and yup sure enough my comments don't show up

    How is anybody supposed to use reddit at this point, like, how do they get new users if literally everybody gets shadow banned

    • Elyssius [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      They get new users cause all of the West is brainwashed to a terminal degree, so they can easily ban people who don't subscribe to their world view

      Just a reminder, spez is a fucking nazi and deserves what they all deserve

      • InsideOutsideCatside [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        But all this shadow ban shit is automatic and seemingly unrelated to the actual content of my comments so i literally don't know how new users are expected to post ever without tripping it up

        • Elyssius [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Just post some US propaganda and you're good to go.

        • pooh [she/her, any]
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          2 years ago

          It’s become a facsimile representation of a real forum. Discussion is guided and/or astroturfed to such a degree that there’s very little in the way of real discussion or debate, but it gives the appearance these are real people freely discussing topics in a way that most people would expect. This is also similar to how elections are portrayed as real, but are for the most part just a facsimile of elections where voters can freely choose.

          In both cases the facsimile is breaking down and more people are becoming aware that this world was created to control them and isn’t actually real.

  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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    2 years ago
    1. North Koreans live in such desperate squalor that they eat grass soup and gruel and the occasional rat
    2. North Koreans own personal computers in great enough numbers to make this project impactful

    Your lib friend who's Really Into Foreign Policy sees no contradiction here. Truly wonderful the mind of a lanyard is.

    • NPa [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Going to the single communal windows 95 PC in my dirt village to watch 15 seconds of Transformers 2 in 240p before I am discovered and sentenced to death by anti-aircraft gun.

      My last words are: "You may kill a man, but you'll never kill American soft power." One of the guards does the Wakanda salute. He is later fed to wild dogs.

      I die with a smile on my face, knowing my remains will be repatriated to my family so they can have the first meal of their lives.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        watch 15 seconds of Transformers 2 in 240p before I am discovered and sentenced to death by anti-aircraft gun

        an act of mercy preventing someone from watching more of transformers 2

      • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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        2 years ago

        I don't remember Windows 95 supporting USB. I think I only 98 did in SE. Maybe that's just USB storage.

        Not like trying to undermine your bit or anything; it just got me thinking.

        • NPa [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          A team of 5600 north Korean Computer Scientists have been working tirelessly for a decade to implement USB functionality into every Win95 terminal in the country. Half died from stress.

    • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      North Koreans live in such desperate squalor that they eat grass soup and gruel and the occasional rat

      North Koreans own personal computers in great enough numbers to make this project impactful

      lmao the lanyard constricts so much that these things become possible