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  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    its pretty bizarre that they think everything is just a show for whitey

    like ostensibly even if they were actors its still a fun thing to 'act'

    how do you become an actor even? do you need to go to college to get a 'fooling whitey' degree?

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Liberals believe they built a fake subway in Pyongyang that's ridden by people pretending to go to jobs. That's a lot of people doing fake jobs who could just be doing... regular jobs.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        its also ostensibly a running subway

        so like... why is it fake. it works

        • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          After the train leaves the terminal, it is disassembled and rebuilt on the other side of the tunnel (with different signage) to simulate another train entering the terminal.

          • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Not sure if you're referencing this, but one grifter in Joe Rogan's podcast literally said trains in the DPRK take a month to move from city to city because people have to push them (?) until they die of exhaustion (??) so there are piles of bodies on train stations (?????) and this is why the people there do not know the word for compassion and can't grasp the concept of feeling bad for humans dying (????? ??????????? ??????????)

            • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              how do you not know her by name by now. she's the most famous grifter. the rats eat the people, and the people eat the rats

            • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              she also said they only have one train stop. you can go on youtube right now and watch video footage of multiple train stops in nk.

      • Soap_Owl [any]
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        2 years ago

        To be fair lot of those liberals in the west do actually do fake jobs. So they have some expertise in the area.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Amazing how the DPRK has enough resources to put on a show that would put Disneyland to shame, that makes much more sense than "everything is really just kinda normal there". For sure. 90% of the DPRK's GDP is spent towards fooling the white folks...

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Today's show is going to be another one for the ages. My character is going to go to the grocery store set and bag groceries -- these props are real food! -- from 9-5. Other actors in my troupe will pretend to buy them -- with real money, to maintain the verisimilitude! -- in exciting crossovers with shows like "coming home from pretending to work at a department store." I even get to do a crossover with the guy pretending to drive the bus later!

        • DrunkUncle [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          My character goes to work every day pretending like he don’t want to kill his boss, goes to the grocery store pretending like He’s happy to overpay for food, hands over rent pretending like he doesn’t want to kill his landlord, and pretending like he’s perfectly ok living in an apartheid police state without being absolutely disgusted by it and wanting to utterly destroy it and every pig that enforces it.

          Good thing I’m just an actor paid to act that way.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Foucault, but all society is performance instead of prison.

        • grendahlgrendahlgen [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms; And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lin’d, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

      • WonderSwanCrystal [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        The DPRK economy is so strong only 10% of the population actually works and the rest of the population pretend works to not make the rest of the world jealous.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Riding on the subway to my job pretending to have fun at a water park, that's just what life is like under communism

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

      how do you become an actor even? do you need to go to college to get a ‘fooling whitey’ degree?

      Pls someone make this real lmao

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The DPRK essentially has this already if even 1% of those "North Korean hackers steal $1 billion in cryptocurrency" articles are true.

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Disneyland has more homeless people among its staff than the entire country of North Korea.

    • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      More homeless adults, absolutely, but afaik the DPRK has a problem with homelessness among children because of how their housing system works.

        • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          I was actually being sincere. Looking into it, I struggle to find a source that isn't just a dedicated "North Korea bad!" rag, but for reference to the (possibly mythical) thing that I'm referring to, here's the NATOpedia article . Obviously I know that most of it is slander, but I've seen the basic premise with that same name explained by sympathetic sources like r/GenZedong users

  • frogbellyratbone_ [e/em/eir, any]
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    2 years ago

    Mia Nyx 🇺🇦🇹🇼🏳️‍⚧️ @fiendishMia // the cutest trans woman ^^ (she/her, BLM, ACAB, lockhimup). I also make bad homebrew for D&D 5th Edition

    god damn wut

          • fox [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I don't think putting a flag on something is stanning it. It's the barest form of purely aesthetic support, akin to putting a french flag overlay on your FB profile picture after Charlie Hebdo. I doubt most of these people are even aware of the Nazis infestation since the media is doing backflips to avoid that, and nobody except terminally online nerds are going to pore over war photos to find the black sun patch on a soldier.

            And there's probably a bigger problem with this place filtering for only the worst possible takes and then concluding that everyone with a Ukraine flag emoji has six brain cells or is a Markov chain of bad ideas. It's not a thin blue line flag with its obvious and overt meaning. It's slacktivist support for the only side of the war that's been reported on in a positive light.

            • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              nobody except terminally online nerds are going to pore over war photos to find the black sun patch on a soldier

              I agree with your point, but its not like the media is trying that hard to hide this, its more the general public is ignorant of the symbols. For instance, multiple mainstream publications ( AP, VOA and so on) ran stories featuring heroic photos of wolfsangel coffins

            • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              Nearly every time I saw a Ukrainian flag account, even excluding the ones posted here, they were saying the dumbest bullshit. I think I have seen exactly one that wasn't.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          yea the Ukrainian shelling of Donbas from 2014-2022 that killed more than 14,000 civilians was just playtime, why they got to be mad and go invade

          • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            I think 14,000 is the combined number of civilians and soldiers who died (rightfully defending their homes from literal neonazis)

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Tfw no Action Park that injured attendees on a daily basis and resulted in the deaths of several people. :deeper-sadness:

  • DrunkUncle [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Getting paid as an actor to go have fun at a water park?!?

    Please i beg you put me in that “dictatorship” it sounds terrible.

    :juche-boi:

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      What would your job be in the future Communist Utopia

      Playing in the Waterpark in an elaborate ploy to gaslight the liberals.

  • happyandhappy [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    points at children having fun

    "yea all these monogoloid children are just pretending to go down that radical water slide"

  • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    The creepy part is, for some reason, every user that have flag of Ukraine and Taipei somehow able to spout the state department propaganda like they scripted

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

      The majority of libs have stopped caring about Ukraine, I also know quite a few left-leaning libs who realized the whole Azov shit was real and have stopped stanning Ukraine as a result. At this point, the only people who still have Ukraine flags in their names are evangelists of the status quo who believe everything the system tells them with conviction. They genuinely believe that the US are the good guys and trying to bring peace and order to the world, and that Russia and China are the greatest threats to democracy itself.

      They spout state department propaganda because they truly think the state department is on their side and wouldn't lie to them because they're the good guys. They're lost causes.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    As a conspiracy theory it doesn't even make sense. Like why would they do that? The park is already built, if you want a photo-op you may as well let people use it lol. Getting actors seems like such a hassle by comparison.

    • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I think the logic of it (which is mistaken) is that the people of the DPRK are all miserable slaves under constant threat of death, so expecting them to have fun there would be like building a water park in Auschwitz while keeping everything else the same and expecting the prisoners to live it up.

      Therefore, the DPRK building such a facility and allowing it to be used normally by non-tourists would only make the slave-state nature of the country more obvious.

      But literally no state has ever looked like what people imagine the DPRK to be, so that makes subsequent inferences kind of useless.

    • MKMuatra [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I imagine they're under the impression it's too expensive like our theme parks are for our poor

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    1 year ago

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  • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    It is a little weird to see so many people in suits standing around on the balcony above a swimming pool. What, are these all the people involved in the administration side of this project being jammed into this fuckin balcony? Put on some bathing suits you freaks

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It was probably a photo op for party officials, so they're all there watching but I presume they're not there during normal hours (although that would be funny if they were).

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        Bruh this literally happened to me and my friends when we were kids, we were hanging out at the local pool and out of nowhere the Mayor, his staff, the Sheriff and like two media vans drove up and started interviewing kids lol

        Then they just kinda stood there getting their pictures taken and talking to the cameras while me and my friends lookin bewildered just tried to go back to swimming, we were all like wtf

        I lived in a pretty big mid level city and the mayor shook my hand, lmao what a weird ass day

    • AmericaDelendeEst [any]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah I was thinking the same thing, I would feel creeped out if I were splashing around trying to have fun and 50 people in suits were just staying

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This park was featured in "My Brothers and Sisters in the North". Folks looked like they had fun at it.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Probably the same park Boy Boy filmed at, and they were definitely having a good time.

  • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    They torture innocent people in front of their families so they can harvest enough tears to fill the water park

  • Spike [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    The headline of that article sure is something. What the hell is creepy about that water park?

  • ClathrateG [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I like the final creepy thing is a life sized statue of OG Kim, never heard of the 'hall of presidents'?

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Americans venerate Lincoln, Washington, et al by orders of magnitude more than the Koreans do the Kims.

      If you're American, just pull up a map of your town and count how many roads, schools, and parks make reference to US presidents. And for bonus points, add up all the ones that make reference to "veterans".

      But yeah, the North Koreans are the brainwashed ones.

      • blue_lives_murder [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        that was one of the things that first started de-programming me

        news coverage or educational videos about 'totalitarian communism' would always focus on the portraits of $current_leader on the walls of classrooms and I was always like...hol up what about the pictures of reagan on the wall huh?