Either that or say NK is a dictatorship. When I first got on lemmy I got dogpiled by the hexies because I dared to say NK is a highly propagandized country (even gasp* moreso than the US). Still waiting for even a single one of those guys to move countries to live under the Kim regime, which apparently is the chillest, friendliest place on earth.
I’m not a tankie I just find the content there more interesting than whatever bullshit PR puff pieces get posted elsewhere. Do you want to engage with what I said on a factual basis or is your max level ad hominem? The marketing industry literally evolved out of Freud’s psychoanalysis work as applied to US propaganda in the 2nd world war by his nephew Edward Bernays who then needed something else to apply it to after the war finished. American propaganda is so pervasive it’s fucking depressing. You go to Europe it’s there slapping you in the face. You go to South East Asia and it’s there again. I have never seen any NK propaganda outside what I see on Youtube.
Are the NK people free to watch whatever media they want? If not, they’re by definition more controlled by propaganda than the US. I haven’t seen a video ad in years. I watch leftist media. If I’m able to avoid right wing propaganda and the NKs are not, that’s a problem.
I’m not denying that the US has a massive propaganda problem. But comparing it to a closed state-run internet and media environment is just silly.
You’re not seeing this clearly. NK propaganda is so primitive they need to restrict the media people can consume. US propaganda mechanisms are so advanced and sophisticated that they can create the illusion of choice and the majority fall for it. There are so many avenues and strategies. The Koreans can’t compete. North Korea has a GDP of $34B. US marketing industry is nearly 18 times bigger than the whole of the NK economy. Do you understand what that means? They have to use crude methods because they can’t afford sophisticated ones.
I’d still say NK has more propaganda “per capita” (whether in a monetary sense or not), just because of their closed media. But I don’t actually care about propaganda as the main focus of the issue anyway. US has a propaganda problem, NK has a dictator problem. If you’re not a tankie that’s great and all but propaganda or not most of them on here portray NK as a great place to be and that’s what’s fucked.
US is absolutely more propagandized than NK lmao, NK dont even need to propagandize their people against US, they just need to tell the truth about the horrific crimes US commited there. What has NK ever done against US to be this demonized? lol.
Look man, when you drop so many bombs on a country that people start living in caves, and your own pilots start complaining that there are no targets left to hit, I don’t think you get to position yourself as the good guy.
Is North Korea a place with a troublesome political culture and a cult of personality problem? Yeah, but if you wanna know who’s fault that is, go look in a mirror.
Is North Korea a place with a troublesome political culture and a cult of personality problem? Yeah, but if you wanna know who’s fault that is, go look in a mirror.
I see that we are conveniently ignoring the 38th parallel and the fact that North Korea started the Korean War.
Can someone point me at one of these “tankies”? I only ever see strawman posts about how stupid they are.
Post something controversial like “Stalin killed some of his own people” on .ml and you’ll see plenty of them.
Either that or say NK is a dictatorship. When I first got on lemmy I got dogpiled by the hexies because I dared to say NK is a highly propagandized country (even gasp* moreso than the US). Still waiting for even a single one of those guys to move countries to live under the Kim regime, which apparently is the chillest, friendliest place on earth.
Nowhere on earth is more propagandized than the US. It’s a literal $607B a year industry and it’s infected most of the planet at this stage.
Another wild ml account appears. Go live in NK and report back for me on the level of propaganda.
No, if you don’t see the propaganda level the United States has achieved, you’re blind.
Remember how every news channel on both sides of the aisle was denying Israel doing a genocide for the past 3 years?
Ever notice how every single news corp is owned by billionaire capitalists?
They are always great examples of the ol’ Whataboutisum.
I’m not a tankie I just find the content there more interesting than whatever bullshit PR puff pieces get posted elsewhere. Do you want to engage with what I said on a factual basis or is your max level ad hominem? The marketing industry literally evolved out of Freud’s psychoanalysis work as applied to US propaganda in the 2nd world war by his nephew Edward Bernays who then needed something else to apply it to after the war finished. American propaganda is so pervasive it’s fucking depressing. You go to Europe it’s there slapping you in the face. You go to South East Asia and it’s there again. I have never seen any NK propaganda outside what I see on Youtube.
Are the NK people free to watch whatever media they want? If not, they’re by definition more controlled by propaganda than the US. I haven’t seen a video ad in years. I watch leftist media. If I’m able to avoid right wing propaganda and the NKs are not, that’s a problem.
I’m not denying that the US has a massive propaganda problem. But comparing it to a closed state-run internet and media environment is just silly.
You’re not seeing this clearly. NK propaganda is so primitive they need to restrict the media people can consume. US propaganda mechanisms are so advanced and sophisticated that they can create the illusion of choice and the majority fall for it. There are so many avenues and strategies. The Koreans can’t compete. North Korea has a GDP of $34B. US marketing industry is nearly 18 times bigger than the whole of the NK economy. Do you understand what that means? They have to use crude methods because they can’t afford sophisticated ones.
I’d still say NK has more propaganda “per capita” (whether in a monetary sense or not), just because of their closed media. But I don’t actually care about propaganda as the main focus of the issue anyway. US has a propaganda problem, NK has a dictator problem. If you’re not a tankie that’s great and all but propaganda or not most of them on here portray NK as a great place to be and that’s what’s fucked.
US is absolutely more propagandized than NK lmao, NK dont even need to propagandize their people against US, they just need to tell the truth about the horrific crimes US commited there. What has NK ever done against US to be this demonized? lol.
US bad doesn’t mean NK good, ya mook
when did I say that? good and bad are moralist positions, we marxists dont believe in moralism.
You’re all over this thread putting words into people’s mouths then get upset when someone does it back to you. Lmao.
That’s the wrong question
why? USA wiped out 12-15% of North korean population btw, they have every single right in the universe to demonize that country.
uh huh
Look man, when you drop so many bombs on a country that people start living in caves, and your own pilots start complaining that there are no targets left to hit, I don’t think you get to position yourself as the good guy.
Is North Korea a place with a troublesome political culture and a cult of personality problem? Yeah, but if you wanna know who’s fault that is, go look in a mirror.
I see that we are conveniently ignoring the 38th parallel and the fact that North Korea started the Korean War.
OK? Did I ever say differently? Again, US = bad does not mean NK = good.
Is that why you support the killing of millions of USSR civis? Like legit?
when you are in a making shit up competition and your opponent is a kamla harris voter liberal:
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I mean there’s a random meme and otherwise it’s people arguing about propaganda. I’m waiting for the “Holodomor was based” people to show up.
Just go to Lemmy.ml
It’s not a strawman, that’s just how how far out of left field they are.
An example https://vger.to/infosec.pub/post/37975928
I mean they exist, but it’s like… 3 people?
It’s mostly bots, people get into argument with tankie bots and then make a whole fucking drama post about it.