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"There was this devastating, life changing event that happened DECADES ago and they STILL talk about it."

"What the hell is Manhwa?"

Edit: My guess is the last thing he can't remember the name of is "Train to Busan".

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[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

HI, South Korean here.

No.

Bye.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago
[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure Parasite was ragging on South Korean culture much harder than the DPRK.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago

"I wonder why having artillery pointed at their capital for the past 70 years has made them think about the aggressively posturing militaristic totalitarian state to their north which claims to be their lawful government?"

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Breaking: local man thinks entire country has produced at most 4 movies in its entire existence.

lmfao, this is so brainrotted i love it.

edit: if you don't mind OP, can i crosspost this to !tankiejerk@lemmy.world? It'd fit right into the community, lmao

[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, of course! I wasn't even sure if this fit meanwhile on grad but I knew it had to go somewhere so thanks for letting me know where to also put stuff like this in future 😊

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Thanks :D you're welcome anytime over there!

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I definitely don't recall the DPRK being mentioned at all in Squid Game season 1.

[–] blargerer@kbin.melroy.org 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The pickpocket girl from season 1 is from the DPRK. Thats about it I think.

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay. I remember that plot point, vaguely, but I don't recall it being about the DPRK, specifically. Maybe I just missed it.

[–] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Tap for spoilerHer entire story arc is about getting money from the games to try and locate and rescue her mother or father I can’t remember which after they got caught trying to escape NK

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I don’t think this gigabrain is reading the text beyond “evil fascist state = dprk = western propaganda”

[–] LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago

This man has not seen the "SSS-class suicide player from another world after the fall meets the villaness after returning as the reincarnated max-level hero to save the world from the Tower" manhwa catalog yet

[–] mentalNothing@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

To be fair, he’s pretty sure they have made 5 things (but he can’t recall the name of one of them)

[–] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

chapo and citationS needed lol

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hah. Hey, at least that's a good benchmark for how the rest of us felt about US media post-9/11.

To be fair, terrorists are basically just modern Nazis and commies. Gotta pick some enemy to caricaturize.

[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

left fascism is a true issue. authority knows no bounds, politcial included

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah, yes, left far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy, opposed to anarchism, democracy, pluralism, egalitarianism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism.

Why does everything have to be tied to fascism? Cant there just be a bad ideology independent of fascism?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I call it authoritarianism, which covers a variety of ideologies.

Anything north of that top horizontal line is off limits, and I'm personally somewhere in the vast sea of libertarianism, occasionally nudging up into liberalism.

[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

i think human political philosophy is a little more complex than a 2 dimensional set of axis.

but i agree, authoritarianism is probably the best word.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed, but the two axis model is a lot more informative and useful than the one axis model most people use.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

People only talk about horshoe theory because they can't comprehend the auth/lib axis.

[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

cause i dont wanna have to write a whole paragraph when i can just type one word?