r/interestingasfuck • u/Dismal-Display-370 • 18h ago

Everyone is too happy around this guy

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u/Madame_Trash_Heap 15h ago

I do find it interesting he plans to make his daughter his heir to the regime. Usually dictators stick with male heirs and this is quite unique.

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u/Eis_ber 14h ago edited 14h ago

He probably wants to keep the dictatorship within the family, but he doesn't have a son, and I can't think of any other male relative he could entrust with the task.

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u/oskar4498 14h ago

Didn't he kill most of the rest of them?

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u/Eis_ber 14h ago

I know that he killed an uncle, and I think that his brother is dead, but I don't know if he killed more of his extended family (or if he even has any other extended family)

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u/gnuoveryou 14h ago

I think one of his brothers is in the US under another name and another is disgraced so he's no threat. I just heard a podcast about this recently.

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u/Spinnicus 12h ago

One of his brothers were assassinated.

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u/BubbhaJebus 8h ago

He had his brother Kim Jong-Nam assassinated in Malaysia.

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u/Tight_Implement5601 12h ago

Also considering he executed some male relatives by using them as target for heavy artillery. The guy is bonkers, and I don't expect anything better from a daughter who's been raised that way

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u/Better_Carpenter5010 14h ago

An evil equal opportunities dictator, maybe this guy ain’t too bad…

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u/POB_42 10h ago

You say that like it's novel, but one of the main reasons Mao Zedong won the Chinese civil war over the course of WW2 was because he viewed women as equal.

Women in China were oppressed, abused, and very looked down on. Mao saw them as perfect agents for communist expansion. They could sow ideals, create a network, and pull a noble's estate from under them through popular revolt. It worked incredibly well, and despite the context, it makes Mao a feminist icon, something he used to great effect in his propaganda.

A small excerpt from Sarah Paine's lecture on how Mao won the civil war, with her explanation of his reasonings.

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u/Better_Carpenter5010 5h ago

Aye, but then that’s the tenants of communism more than just Mao I think.

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u/POB_42 5h ago

In any case it was used to great effect. Just don't ask about his wives...

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u/Better_Carpenter5010 5h ago

Hypocrites in every walk of life

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u/Madame_Trash_Heap 5h ago

I didn't say that I just thought it was interesting because its not common for men who rule like this man.

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u/KarloReddit 11h ago

He's just a white knight feminist <3

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u/waseem2bata 14h ago

She's more ruthless than him, to him She's the perfect fit