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I'll start! I like that DPRK has low per capita carbon emissions for an industrialized nation.

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[โ€“] PP_BOY_ 37 points 9 months ago

Nothing, and I feel like these discussions, even if made ironically, come off as incredibly tone-deaf given the reality of the people unfortunate enough to be stuck living in N.K.

[โ€“] Hazdaz 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At 40 years old, they have one of the world's youngest leaders. Way to represent Millenials, Kim!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

True, though they only put esteem in him because they consider him an avatar of his grandfather.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Necrocracy. I think they're the only country that is officially still ruled by a dead leader.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Am I the only one who actually thinks it's a good system of government? I mean when you think about it, if you're being ruled by a dead person like that, it prevents excessive deviation of ruling style. I bet many Americans wish they were still ruled by the insightful guidance of George Washington, even if by proxy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Where to begin! The famines? The oppression? The lack of liberties? The persecution of queer people, or, indeed, any thought viewed as slightly aberrant? The megalomaniacal madman who keeps his people in chains while he lives the life of the ultra-rich? The gasping, desperate poverty of his subjects? Their inability to leave the country? The militarism? The backwardness?

Oh, wait, what we like?

Uh...

[โ€“] pavnilschanda 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have a morbid curiosity for their state propaganda (as with other state propaganda). They're just very persistent with it. Not sure if that counts as something from NK that's good, but it's at least one thing that I'm fascinated by.

[โ€“] Chraccoon 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So is Kim's butt that he has to have chair checkers to make sure the chair will take his weight.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Safety is no accident!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I didn't know that! I wonder why they made that design decision.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Sqirrel and Hedgehog

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Kim's haircut is pretty sweet

[โ€“] hal_5700X 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not going to falll for your rickroll, sorry charlie

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That mass games thing they do where each person is a pixel is quite something. Video.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Video

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[โ€“] SauceBossSmokin 1 points 9 months ago

Um, how about annyeonghaseNO.