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[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 67 points 11 months ago

Kim Jong Un forced an old man to tie a thousand large balloons to his home and went on an adventure (at gunpoint) with him throughout the country. The dictator’s decadence knows no bounds.

[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the first laugh in 2024

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 50 points 11 months ago
[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's just so hilariously stupid

"What should we do with them? Should we ready a firing squad?"

"No...I have something...special...in mind for them"

"...so poison?"

"Ready a hot air balloon"

"Wut"

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

yeonmi-park In North Korea they make space station out of hot air balloons.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago

Juche Magic strikes again

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 47 points 11 months ago

It's unimportant, but this idiot doesn't know how to write headlines. As-written, it suggests that the evidence for the story was provided by a North Korean Leader about a person that leader referred to as 'Kim Jong Un,' despite the fact that it is surely not trying to claim the former or cast doubt on the name of the latter.

[-] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's unimportant

No, it's vitally important and I wouldn't have noticed how terribly formatted/written it was if it weren't for you. So, thank you.

[-] Civility@hexbear.net 44 points 11 months ago

🎈

👨‍👨‍👦🇮🇱

kim-drip

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 43 points 11 months ago

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

[-] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 11 months ago

eternity keeps replacing random photos with this bear for some reason, so this is the version of the post i got to experience 1000053316

[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Look at that dope-ass bear!

[-] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

it's a pretty awesome bear

[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 35 points 11 months ago

Hot air balloons can’t make it anywhere close to even the stratosphere, much less space right?

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 11 months ago

That's why they make up shit like this. It's supposed to be a "North Korea is so dumb they don't even know this basic primary school science fact." It's designed to make them seem weak and stupid.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago

I think there are some kinds that can at least get to a height that looks like space, though looking it up I see lots of carefully worded claims about "the edge of space" and sometimes the stratosphere.

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

To reach orbit you need to accelerate to over 16,000 miles per hour and leave the atmosphere. A balloon can't rise above the point of neutral buoyancy, which is necessarily inside the atmosphere (i.e. not in space).

[-] Aliveelectricwire@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Wake up babe new DPRK execution myth just dropped

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

Zionists aren't worth a rocket

[-] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Tie me to a ~~rocket~~ balloon and fire me at Tel Aviv.

[-] goose@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

What an absurd headline. He was clearly using the Fulton Recovery System to send them to Mother Base

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago

I hope libs and reactionaries keep saying shit like this

At this rate maybe the truth about the history of Korea will go mainstream for gen z and millenials on tictok

[-] Graphite22@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago

just guys being dudes

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

Just attach balloons to congress and float them away like in Up but with a happier ending.

[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

Chinese spy balloon kelly

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago

I thought they said North Korea doesn't have a space program smdh

[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago
[-] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago
[-] SovietWaveGoddess@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

Fucking hell yes, how could someone see this as a bad thing

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