Lol imagine being so brainwashed that you don't uncritically believe when USAID funded outlets tell you North Koreans are so ~~genetically~~ intellectually inferior that they honestly believe Kim Il Sung is god, was the best sportsman ever at everything, and he's immortal now? Dude they literally make them pull trains by hand because they're so poor, I heard somebody say it!

All the hours and weeks and months and years of footage is all faked tho

[–] highduc@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago

So much jpeg it's almost unreadable.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 19 points 1 week ago

Can the propaganda have more pixels next time please and thank you, how am I meant to understand the wishes of glorious leader if I can't even make out the words?

[–] Rebsalot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

99.9% alphabetization? How is that measured? Why is it measured?

[–] Rebsalot@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I answered my own question - it's a poor translation for 99.9% literacy rate.

[–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

They paint letters on kids as soon as they're born

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How is any of those a prerogative of democracy?

[–] goatbeard@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago

Democracy = good stuff, communism = bad stuff

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not to mention a bunch of it is false/misleading.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Such as?