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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 80 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The only thing that ever makes pictures out of the DPRK look “creepy” is really just that things are often made with materials that look a bit cheap

Which tends to happen when you put a country under a blockade for decades

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 68 points 4 months ago

I often see that from crackers, they complain that NK looks stuck in like the 70's and gee I bet that has something to do with the fucking embargo the country's been under since it's inception like you said.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago

And at the same time all the Boomers love the old cars in Cuba

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

The ones who even know that much about Cuba

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

In my experience, they usually do. Just shit like:

grillman Shame Cuba is such a dictatorship, I'd love to go there to get some cigars and see those classic cars.

Still virtually no knowledge of Cuba and its history lol

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My coworkers know I'm going to Cuba next month and one said it's a shame I'm bringing my GF and said they'd just sit back with mojitos, a cigar, and a prostitute.

Yeah what the fuck

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

what-the-hell

Have a good trip! That (the actual Cuba trip, not the boomerized version) sounds super cool

[-] Des@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

seeing the world only through it's Treat Potential

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Imagining putting on the boomer glasses lol

[-] Des@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

glasses-on that simpsons episode where homer sees The Land of Chocolate

glasses-off the curse of communism and seeing webs of exploitation everywhere until it makes you collapse into a pool of helpless depression

[-] axont@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago

There also aren't brands and advertisements everywhere, plus urban areas usually seem sensibly designed. Americans are terrified if they don't know where the closest Taco Bell is.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago

Advertising fuck yes that’s what’s missing and I think that’s actually a bigger factor than material quality

Seeing brand logos everywhere is such a part of my daily reality that I didn’t even realize that was what’s missing

Hell, even non-brands have logos! We have logos all over the place!

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago

And these pictures don’t even have that problem that looks like a very normal water park

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

also, they usually cherry pick photos from when its cloudy, grey, foggy

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