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Redditors react to a video of a bike ride around Pyongyang

Video: the most normal city ever filmed

Redditors: So spooky! Everything looks… wrong! This guy is taking his life in his hands to film this! avgn-horror

Also Redditors: Looks too normal, this has to be staged, they’re actors and this is a propaganda channel! phoenix-objection-1phoenix-objection-1

Side note: my tolerance for western bullshit on the DPRK has reached the negatives, five seconds in these comments and you can cook an egg with my blood. Salute to the small handful of brave comrades pushing back on propaganda in the replies kim-salute

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    53·
    10 months ago

    why is it so hard to have nuanced views on this sorta thing? NK is an authoritarian hellscape, that doesn’t mean every building is a fake facade, doesn’t mean people are getting tortured in the streets, and it can even mean some (even if very very few) NK may have higher quality of life than people in western countries.

    it’s important to remember that you’re not immune to propaganda. and for those on the other side, just because something is propaganda doesn’t mean it’s not partially true.

    How do redditors manage to survive with so little self awareness? It’s astounding.

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      27·
      10 months ago

      FYI most people who fall hook line and sinker for propaganda subconsciously (or heck, sometimes consciously) know it’s bullshit, but they pretend to believe it to keep a narrative going that benefits them. Westoids subconsciously (or heck, consciously) know their tasty treats come from US hegemony, and they know spreading bullshit about how awful the rest of the world is helps keep that hegemony intact, so they pretend to believe lies to keep the nuggies coming in.

      • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        know it’s bullshit, but they pretend to believe it to keep a narrative going that benefits them.

        It doesn’t seem that way to me. I know people who think the PRC is a hellscape where people are starving and disappears people and harvests their organs for thinking the wrong thing. They also think they make you write essays about how you feel about Xi’s speech at work everytime Xi makes a speech.

        • Great_Leader_Is_Dead [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          None of them actually truly believed that shit though. They just wanna to demonize a spooky oriental race to make themselves feel superior and powerful so they can justify domination the world for Big Macs. These aren’t good people, they’re narcissistic psychos and there’s no hope for a single one of them.

    • Sephitard9001 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      10 months ago

      This is a Redditor coming dangerously close to rationalizing how America can be exactly as it is now while being an authoritarian hellscape but their brain has built in thought-terminating cliches to protect their psyche and avert it at the last moment.