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

Everyone is too happy around this guy

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u/littlespider55 18h ago

They’re “happy” because their lives depend on it

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u/unstabletable 17h ago

Besides the fake happiness and generally all of it, what really creeps me out about it is how overly innocent and childish the brand of happiness is. Very off-putting.

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u/FixFun1959 13h ago

What’s important to remember is that Kim absolutely knows it’s fake. Control is the point. The bigger and faker it is, the more control and fear he knows he has.

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u/qwertykitty 8h ago

I wonder if he does know it's fake. His father certainly did but he was probably raised seeing it everywhere his whole life. Has he ever experienced his people without that fake happiness? How would he know it isn't genuine without experience? No one thinks themselves to be the villain.

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u/IndependenceSudden63 7h ago

Kim jong Un studied abroad in Europe as a young child under an alias.

He definitely knows what the outside world is like. There are people in Europe who were shocked that their classmate turned out to be the heir to North Korea when his father brought him home and name *him heir apparent.

So Un knows it's fake. This is about ensuring he has complete control over the population.

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u/dRaidon 2h ago

Imagine going to school. And then eventually finding out who your roommate you used to get drunk with was.

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u/DefiniteDefaultUser 1h ago

Same with Bashar Al Assad. Used to be an eye doctor in the UK. Imagine having been medically examined by a dictator lol

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u/FixFun1959 7h ago

He 100% does.

He doesn’t give a shit about their actual happiness. The only realism he gets or needs is from the generals and advisors closest to him that know the whole game and how to play it.

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u/Consistent-Sea253 8h ago

they literally train to be the leader, its no coincidence they act so similar.

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u/FixFun1959 7h ago

You’re absolutely right, there’s a whole strategy. The generals and apparatchiks have been there since his father was in power, and they’ve got the propaganda planned a year in advance.

He’s even trying to emulate his grandfather, there’s a concentrated push for it. Even the North Koreans are gravitating towards nostalgia. Remind everyone of the “good times” (which were terrible, but of course history is rewritten).

They’ve got Un doing the same dog and pony touring the country’s farms and factories, and offering “on the spot practical advice” for ways they can grow/harvest more food or produce items quicker/better. Even though they obviously have no idea what they are talking about.

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u/Snitsie 4h ago

Are the farmers allowed to ignore that practical advice?

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u/DarknessIsFleeting 7h ago

He lived in Switzerland for several years, so yes he knows.

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u/SixStringsUsh 7h ago

sounds like the plot of a dark truman show, with nukes and executions.