Now she and her family will be killed thanks to this video

this is r/mildlyinteresting at best

I mean, the guy risked “accidentally” dying in prison to film this, that in itself is pretty interesting

It’s like a big theatre, a whole country is playing … “country”

Edit: and no one red the full script.

It doesn’t matter if she knows what she’s doing!

She’s probably been trained for years (if not decades) to do these exact movements - to be a perfect official for the perfect state.

You can watch this drone do her ‘robotics’ - while a other people walk by.

This brain-washed woman is being revered by the powers at hand.

While the others… are just slaves to a fascist regime…a regime that the orange coming potus seems to adore!

Reddit is not OK.

  • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    It’s like a big theatre, a whole country is playing … “country”

    I love these brain genius comments because they invite so many followup questions

    Like: if they’re pretending to be a country, what’s the point? If it’s illegal to film them, then who are they performing to? It can’t be the tourists, because the implication is that it’s illegal for them to see this. If it’s for the “government” then why in a random street corner? Where is Kim watching it from if this is some weird theatre act for him?

    Or: at what point does acting like a country simply become being a country? If everyone is playing some Truman Show style role every single day then at that point they’re just indistinguishable from a country

    Or: why would a country spend the immense amount of money, time, and effort to put on a kabuki show of acting like a country? Does it not make more sense that they’re actually just… Being a country?

    Of course reddit-logo idiots will dismiss all these questions by going “well North Korea is just k u h r a z y like that”

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      No, I go to work because I live in a free country. I also need to pay for healthcare, rent, and to not starve to death but that is ancillary. They go to work because they are trying very hard to convince us that its not worse over there, but they are not free. If they don’t, something worse than being homeless and starving will happen to them, because they must already be homeless and starving. This is all being orchestrated by a complicit and brainwashed populace.

      Its all very straightforward if your mind is a penrose triangle like mine smuglord

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    So weird how they aren’t all skeletons and there are cars and such in the video. Almost like it’s a normal-ass country and not some sort of hunger-hovel. So strange. I am sure they are pointing that out.

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    the brain geniuses in that thread are claiming the movements the traffic officer is doing don’t mean anything? Like it’s just theatrics to make it seem like the DPRK has a functioning society.

    Except she clearly does a hand gesture at the beginning that probably means something like “slow down.” She salutes too, possibly because of a passing military/police vehicle? Also I don’t have a Korean driver’s license and neither do any of them so why are they pretending to know the rules regarding driving around a Korean traffic officer

    everything westerners know about the DPRK is like a big spooky campfire story

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      And they never want to even go one level into the implications. Okay, it’s all a big mandatory theater to pretend they have a functioning society. That takes theater practice, that takes instructors, it takes a construction industry capable to building all the “sets”, and of course it takes soldiers just off-camera pointing AK-47s at everyone, soldiers who have to be trained, equipped, ect. Speaking of the cameras, it takes electricity to run them and all the cities’ worth of fake lights, so that’s an energy sector right there. You also need enough real food to feed to everyone doing this vitally important psyop work, and everyone doing all the logistical work to make it possible. The propaganda around the DPRK is so far into the realm of mythical bullshit, and most people think about it so little to begin with, that it’s just this zone of feeble nonsense that falls apart at the slightest interrogation.

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        westerners seriously believe the DPRK is doing a smoke and mirror show specifically to make westerners think everything is normal there

        except it doesn’t seem to fool anyone? Do they have an explanation for why the DPRK continues to do a show if no one believes it? There are like 2 or 3 serious DPRK advocacy groups in the west. The norm is complete hostility and threats of regime change.

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    A couple of years ago there was a video of a traffic officer directing traffic. Except it was zoomed in so you couldn’t see the cars. Could it be the person directing traffic of a busy intersection stands in an area where they won’t get accidentally clipped? No! Clearly she was just making hand motions towards non-existent cars (North Korea obviously doesn’t have cars) or else she and 20 generations of her family would be executed.

    Deeply unsunserious people.

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    Some weird meta brainwashing going on. By “discussing” North Korean “brainwashing”, westerners all end up providing their own ignorant propaganda, literally doing what they accuse DPRK of.

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      Yeah see it’s better to have heavily armed military folks casually and haphazardly waving traffic however they please rather than having a civilian use a clear consistent system of communication to direct traffic efficiently because freedom or something

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    You can watch this drone do her ‘robotics’

    I would think very clear and consistent signals would be important. You don’t want any sort of ambiguity when you’re directing traffic. The guys with those cone thingies who direct airplanes do the same thing more or less.

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    People really eat this shit up and it really more evidence that westerners were never “brainwashed” and they actively seek out these materials as a form of self-flattery.

    soviet-hmm

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      Oh they did, it’s right there in the comments. Here is the kind of cope these dumbasses came up with:

      The difference being one is a traffic cop with no idea what they’re doing, and the other is a trained soldier on guard duty, with orders to use lethal force if they see fit.

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        The difference being one is a traffic cop with no idea what they’re doing

        me when I’m in the racism competition and my opponent is a redditor squidward-nervous

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        The perfidious oriental is incapable of organized thought!

        Anyway, there actually is a pretty big difference. One is a trained traffic warden serving the public, the other is your bully from high school who serves no meaningful function and gets off on trampling children