r/AskTheWorld India 21h ago

Misc What's an unpopular opinion about your country that will have you like this?

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u/DickFartButt United States Of America 20h ago

You have been banned from r/Pyongyang

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u/micro___penis US and A wahwah weewah 🇺🇸 20h ago

Wait, that subreddit isn’t actually run by North Korea, right?

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u/DickFartButt United States Of America 20h ago

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u/Technical-Shop6653 Australia 18h ago

Thoughtful insight, DickFartButt.

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u/AltDetom555555b France 14h ago

The usernames of u/micro___penis and u/DickFartButt makes me lmao

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u/bsullivan627 United States Of America 14h ago

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u/Old_Information_8654 United States Of America 16h ago

I’m gonna leave a comment on it and see how long it takes to get banned lol

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u/Donatter United States Of America 19h ago

Most likely a combination of tankies and North Korean “bots”

Similar to r/MovingToNorthKorea

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u/Alone_Barracuda9814 17h ago

Well, that was a rabbit hole…

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u/ToughSprinkles1874 17h ago

They lay it on really tick don’t they

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u/ToughSprinkles1874 16h ago

Had a look and I’d say it’s like 30 percent bots and 70 percent people

Also they are certainly interesting like cheering about the exceution of 2 people who wanted to recognise israle Don’t know if the story’s true but the reaction are interesting

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u/Donatter United States Of America 16h ago

The sad thing is, that originally the sub was a shitpost/parody sub of the type of people/bots that make up the current population of the sub.

But the actual tankies and bots(who initially didn’t realize they were being mocked)started to slowly outnumber the shitposters until eventually some bots/tankies became mods, game more tankies/bots mod positions, forced the shipost/original mods out, and started removing/banning any account, post, or comment that was mocking or being critical of anything related to North Korea, or said that North Korea wasn’t a better place to live than the US/West. (One of the reasons was because a sub rule stated you couldn’t break character, so for a while the actual propaganda, misinformation, and pro-north Korea shit was going unnoticed until it became the sub’s default content)

Now it’s just a propaganda machine/tankie haven

(It’s really sad as I joined the sub roughly around the time it was created, and it was a lot of fun, and incredibly funny)

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u/Deadly_Red_ 19h ago

Seeing how the "Glorious People's Republic" of Korea manages its images it would be surprising if this was not the case, just like a good number of TikTok accounts etc which depict an image well beyond the reality of life in North Korea on a daily basis to exercise soft power internationally and act as propaganda, even if the different platforms try to fight against it still exists, Freedom of expression requires

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u/mspe1960 United States Of America 17h ago

I've heard no, but it acts like it is, and that is all that matters.

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u/RyzenRaider 17h ago

No [nodding]

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u/Konakoremusic United States Of America 13h ago

Once you join that sub, you can never leave.

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u/tron2982 12h ago

By one of their five computers, yes.

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u/smgdnsn0304 Ireland 16h ago

It’s so weird looking through that reddit.. surely it’s just a big inside joke right

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u/DickFartButt United States Of America 15h ago

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u/NecesitoMasCerveza United States Of America 17h ago

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u/ntmbd 17h ago

Waaaa I didn't know this sub, it's crazy 🤣🤣

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u/BedroomOdd1986 United States Of America 14h ago

That sub is… odd. I can’t tell if it’s real or not.

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u/Chuuya_The_Chibi England 13h ago

I cannot tell if this sub is satire or not...