This guy proves that any above average video production is enough to entertain libs.
Just get Hans Zimmer to BRAAAAAAAAAM it and it'll sound convincing. :so-true:
Isn't this guy who made a video about how China isn't real because centuries ago such and such dynasty was smaller than present day China?
Somebody actually made a full video like cut for cut identical to the Johnny Harris China one, but for America. It was pretty funny. Might have been BadEmpanada? But I don't remember, might have been somebody else
Johnny looking at historical maps of China, watching it grow bigger and bigger as he goes back through the last 300 years while America shrinks away into literally nothing.
"How to brainwash your country" i say, while producing brainwashing neolib slop.
Also, if I were a streamer I would put Johnny on and then simply walk away to get chicken, leaving his bullshit completely uncontested.
Thank you Johnny ''the WEF funds me'' Harris, your opinion sure is appreciated.
How does he find time to make these videos with his busy State Department blowjob schedule?
What is the Hexbearist line on Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee anyway? Did Kim Jong-il just like movies? Was it all an embezzlement scheme like Wikipedia says North Korea says?
Blowback covered it a bit in a bonus episode for season 3 and not really knowing the ins and outs I can say for certain, Kim Jong Il fucking LOVED movies. He was a kino child through and through.
Such a fun subject for a bonus episode ruined by the gross lady they interviewed for it, talked about going to North Korea like she was going to a zoo observing the funny creatures doing weird things.
Yeah, I can imagine with that season they maybe had to take who they can get but I was very dissapointed.
Where are the bonus eps? My podcast app only shows the regular s3 episodes and bonus content from previous seasons.
Downloaded to my phone. I pirated them when they came out. Dunno the link now or even if it would still work.
Your comment was five days ago but if you're still looking for it this is the drive link with the bonus episodes:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1WSE-G3x7QBc9ZFmh20AFGn5Nq7oBsJYN
Did Kim Jong-il just like movies? Was it all an embezzlement scheme like Wikipedia says North Korea says?
They were trying a lot of stuff, and the kidnapping schemes are arguably less brutal than a lot of the tactics used against NK. A lot of these schemes make more sense when you put yourself into the mindspace of a country under assault of decades of shadow war. But I will say that the whole Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee situation seems at least a little bit harebrained. My read on it is that Kim's love of movies maybe lead to some motivated reasoning when hatching this plan.
Thank you Johnny Harris I hope this video was also made in partnership with the World Economic Forum
Alright, Pulgasari-pill me. How did it actually get made?
Pulgasari is real and all they did was point a camera at a real event.
I fuckin knew it brb gonna make a lil monster out of rice
I hate this nerd's "cool guy serious face" so fucking much lmao
:live-tucker-reaction:
Ive heard of this but know nothing about it outside the imperialist perspective
What really happened? Is this notion that the filmmaker was kidnapped true?
No love to Harris, but didn't Shin Sang-Ok actually get kidnapped?
If I've been propagandized about this I'll take the L, but I'm pretty sure this is one of those "crazy DPRK" things that actually happened.
However, there is the claim that they have secret audio recordings of them talking with Kim Jong-Il. I cannot find a reproduction of these recordings yet, but the content of them could very easily vindicate the kidnapping story. I see countless references to these recordings existing, but nothing other than two or three sentences of quotations in terms of their actual content (and the quotes aren’t helpful for our purposes).
Things can get incredibly muddy when you ask what happened after Shin Sang-Ok arrived in NK. Perhaps she was legitimately invited as a guest - even invited under secrecy because she didn't want to ruin her reputation in the West - and then heard the movie pitch and decided "Nah, this sucks, I don't wanna".
All Kim Jung-Il would have to say to put leverage on her is "I'll tell the western press you were here." And he could have suggested a whole lot worse than that, ranging from "I'll suggest you're a spy working for me" to "I'll accuse you of spying on behalf of the west before you leave". Because of the highly volatile nature of North/South relationships, its incredibly easy to get leverage over a resident on the wrong side of the border when you're a ranking government official.
I am slightly more inclined to believe that they are lying
There's definitely a heavy political angle to this that hinges on the question "What was Shin Sang-Ok doing when she started making a film in North Korea?" If you simply assert "She was kidnapped", all the other messy details melt away. But if she accepted a legitimate offer? Or she simply decided to visit on a lark and got embroiled in international politics? Or she was lured there under false pretenses and trapped? Anything is possible. The degree to which we might judge the Kims personally, or the nature of the NK State, varies heavily based on a very fine reading of what these movie makers knew and when they knew it.
I’ll be honest I didn’t watch the video, I saw Johnny Harris’s face and “How to brainwash a country” and said “Nah I’m good”
Fair enough, I don't think I could stand looking at his face for 27 minutes either.
My lib friend sent me one of his videos about how libs sometimes don’t fulfill their promises. If the liberal occasionally criticizes liberalism he must be trustworthy when it comes to international affairs, right? Right? It means we live in a free society where anyone can criticize anything and the CIA totally isn’t trying to play us, not like in evil communist totalitarian authoritarian China where your organs will be harvested instantaneously if you so much as think about Winnie the Pooh.
Also want to note that the Korean in the picture sucks. They clearly just ran it through a translator. It says 복한영화, “North Korea Movie,” using the South Korean term for the DPRK which the DPRK itself would never use. They would write 조선인민공화국, “Joseon People’s Republic,” a title easier to recognize since it’s so long. No Korean speakers were consulted in the making of a video about Korea, which is typical of white saviors. “We can understand your country perfectly without speaking a word of your language.”
