Water parks? Fake.

Skate parks? Fake.

Grocery stores? Fake.

Orphanages? Fake.

These are all there to please my mayo like complexion.

All the North Koreans are either enslaved, or starving to death, but they also have a great fleet of paid actors that pretend to enjoy going down a water slide. They actually use the water slides to transport bodies when the mayos go home. Why yes I gave several thousand dollars to this horrible gommunist regime, but if I didn't film these people pretending to use a library computer, the other videos of the exact same thing may not be as credible!

They didn't let me film the inside but I stumbled upon a generational genocide clinic, they were literally killing babies before they had left their mother's womb!!!!

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    this literally looks like a public library or something

    lmao @ the comments saying they planted a guy doing research on string theory in a COLLEGE COMPUTER ROOM

    That was a different guy, one of the people they interviewed had contributed to a research paper on string theory. He was obviously placed there to make North Korea look like a nation of geniuses but he was clearly very nervous, almost as if his life depended on it...

    or, more obvious explanation: guy was doing research for string theory and is a nervous fuckin nerd when put on camera

      • nabana [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Literally 90% of my college research was staring dejectedly at an empty google screen. These chucklefucks would realize the exact same thing about their own experience and how relateable it is if they viewed the people of the DPRK as fellow humans.

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

          they arent humans silly they are HERMITS!!!

          thats why we call them the hermit kingdom because a) they dont let anyone in to their country or do any trade at all and b) they are a kingdom

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

            no its not americas fault they can only trade with a few countries, those carpet bombs did nothing but help im sure

          • NPa [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            We need to send seashells to the Hermit Kingdom, they are experiencing severe molting crises at the moment

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        probably just shit internet or no idea how to fix a problem??? like holy shit how do people not use their brains on this plenty of the computers clearly had a search catalogue of some kind up

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

            if you look closely there is yellow lines, just like the person to their right, on screen that fade in and out depending on the angle. They are shitty monitor panels with shitty viewing angles. They exist literally everywhere. Of course redditors have to act as if this is the first time theyve seen washed out viewing angles because otherwise their entire circlejerk falls apart.

            • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              What do you mean they don’t have a $20000 le epic RGB gamer setup at every work station at this university? Obviously the evils of gommulism know no bounds

    • Rem [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      They're constantly at risk of developing a nuclear weapon but also no one could possibly be studying physics that would be crazy

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        A nation with hypersonic missiles that America has failed to achieve yet can't possibly have any educated people!

        It's pretty wild, the structures you need to achieve the highly educated science, research and engineers at the cutting edge of some of the things they're doing would definitely also produce an educational range very similar to the education in most developed western countries. You don't get the cutting edge without your entire country's education being good to find and educate the people that push the boundaries.

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

    Cool slipup from the OP is him calling gasoline "petrol" despite claiming to be an American, and then saying he called it that because he studied economics.

    • SadStruggle92 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      "Studying Economics makes you British" is one of the best owns against the field of Economics imaginable.

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    My favourite DPRK Reddit propaganda bullshit (that I've also seen RE: China) is that anytime you see a picture of someone looking happy there it's because there's a secret police officer pointing a gun at them offscreen, forcing them to smile.

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    How do you convince people who are dumb enough to buy the most outrageous propaganda? That people will believe stuff this absurd is kinda scary.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      You can't convince people unless they are first will to accept that the US government lies about this stuff all the time. And like 99% of Americans will refuse to do this, despite all the tough talk about "not trusting the government to do things". Apparently Americans will believe that government is completely incapable of doing anything other than present foreign nations in an honest light.

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

    People are broken by pop culture to think that there is no way you can have a "normal day" in a country that is not a western democracy. The idea of North Korean math teacher spending their day teaching math and then going home just doesn't work for them. The centrist position is that there may be some special few people in China who can go about their day without reporting someone to a government death squad, but never in the DPRK. It's weird.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      To a liberal, people of the global south start at a state of subhumanity and can only reach a state of humanity by becoming sufficiently palatable to the west.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Because white people think every non-white person exists to serve them, which is true to the extent that white supremacy (western imperialism, etc.) has so much power in the world to do just that. They think that if North Koreans aren't working in sweatshops making stuff for white people then they must be doing the same for evil communist dictators or something.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    2 years ago

    the comments are full of guys just, making shit up. just imagining the worst possible country that could exist and concluding that that's probably what the DPRK does. incredible.

  • Lydia [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    So many people treat DPRK citizens as weird aliens and it’s just blatant racism and no one seems to care

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    You see, when South Koreans use computers in public it's called a PC Bang and it's part of their gamer culture.

    When North Koreans use computers in public it's a trick to fool white tourists into thinking they have access to computers.

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

      if you touch the mouse a small electrical current shocks your fingers and makes a loud buzzing noise

      if you touch the keyboard a robot arm will come out from the ceiling and throw a pie at your face

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Evil dictator Kim wastes pie to humiliate his subjects rather than let them eat!

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

    it honestly would require almost no more than 20 minutes of "planning" to plot out a documentary film that presents the US as an evil dystopia. i mean, how many post-apocalyptic movies are shot with limited special/practical effects in one of our thousands of de-industrialized towns?

    like imagine taking some camera equipment to East Crankoil, Pennsylhio and walking around filming some long abandoned industrial complex. then you film the inevitable arrival of local police to climb up your ass for "trespassing" or whatever, and maybe have a B group off hidden filming the A group getting beaten up, having their phones/cameras broken, and maybe one of them gets shot. patch it together with footage of one of the mostly-closed schools where little kids are saying the pledge and doing mass shooter drills. can't wait to see the school library's computer lab. maybe some footage of whatever is left of the public library, and the people sleeping in their cars in the parking lot of the amazon fulfillment center built outside of town. and, don't forget to have the results of some water and air testing quality done.

    the final piece would be a plat map of the town and it's surroundings showing how 1-2 rich people who live in some world class city own 90% of the town's material resource base and how every position of power and decent pay in the town is held by a member of 1-2 extended families that have social or political connections to the owners.

    putting it in a coherent order and recording the voice over shit would probably take longer than capturing all the footage you needed. sub and dub it in a dozen languages and dump it online.

    then spend the rest of your life in exile getting death threats from armed assholes, just like a real documentarian!

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

      it honestly would require almost no more than 20 minutes of “planning”

      maybe one of them gets shot

      its sad because its true

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      it honestly would require almost no more than 20 minutes of “planning” to plot out a documentary film that presents the US as an evil dystopia.

      Well it's not like the US ever did a good job of hiding the fact that it is

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

        you don't think so? even some people here were pretty surprised that, if global wealth were equally distributed around the world, the average American's wealth would double. and we're all looking behind the curtain pretty regularly.

        I think the US has done a first rate job at propagandizing it's people and people around the world from knowing exactly how hollowed out the US is.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Don't forget taking creepshots of random people and filming their reactions to call them paranoid.

  • mrbigcheese [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    westerners are just conditioned to get an instant boost of serotonin whenever they engage in some negative propaganda shit about north korea, theyre all just chasing that high so they dont have to think about addressing their own horrid dystopian societies and miserable lives, its sad really reading through those kind of threads just deeply deranged unwell people

  • Rem [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Omg this is exactly what I was talking about earlier