Fuck you too Robert.

Anyway I just love how he used that photo of Madeline Pendleton to make her look as unhinged as possible when she is incredibly intelligent and well read. She always has sources for her videos so I don’t know what his problem is, sorry that the DPRK isn’t the hell scape you want it to be. God forbid people share facts about the country instead of Western lies.

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    I went there as a grad student, had a relatively pleasant experience.

    When I came back, everyone tried to convince me that every person I met must have been a paid actor trying to convince me that the DPRK was great so that uh…profit? MAYBE I could see someone making that argument if I was a head of state or something, but I was just a no-name grad student. I was there for months, there is no chance that every person I interacted with was an actor. Can you imagine any country being so insecure as to bend over backwards like that?

    Westerners seem to think people REALLY care about their opinion of countries.

    Apparently we really should be sending students to Pyongyang to study drama because they must have the best program on the planet with the volume of actors they have.

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      I also like the implication that the DPRK isn’t using the limited resources they have to… run their country? But instead using those limited resources to try and fool a few thousand tourists a year in what would be the greatest Potemkins Villiage in history.

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        Well when your population is 87% actors apparently, you gotta go where your strengths lie.

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      Most people don’t seem to realize that the DPRK has a population of over 25 million people. That’s roughly The Netherlands + Belgium. Let them watch Dutch news for one night to see how possible it is to completely brainwash a country with that population. There’s riots every single week.