Correction for the Isaac Hayes thing. Apparently Scientology contacted South Park, while Hayes was sick/incapacitated and basically resigned on his behalf without the authority to do so.
A lot of this story reminds me of the Roman Emperors who were born to the purple in the early years of the Empire (Caligula and Commodus, particularly). They had the same conditions of being raised into absolute power and ending up with a streak of childishness and cruelty.
I don't know how much Sozu is different in North Korea compared to what you can get in the states, but for that alcohol story I've seen Sozu ranging from 13-16 percent alcohol, so yeah they were definitely gettin wasted
At 45:00, cars and yachts are seen as common or garden possessions in Western cinema and games, while airplanes are not-everyone exotica. The message would be, "the prosperity you see in bootleg media is real, and Great Leader has long been drawing the nation toward it."
That story about Kim Jong Un giving a rocket scoentist a piggy back ride is hilarious to me. But how horrified would you be being that scientist? Like imagine you accidentally kick him a little bit and have to wonder if youre going to die. Its sounds hilarious and awful in equal parts.
Yeah tbh I don't want to sound pro-Kim Jong Un (or pro-threatening people into not seeing movies), but it just seemed like a douchey, obnoxious concept. "Ha ha, wouldn't it be funny if America assassinated this real live person who currently exists, and coup'ed a sovereign nation, even though we have an extremely ugly IRL history of doing that (especially to non-white rulers of developing nations)? Isn't that a hilarious movie premise?" IMHO, no it's not.
The Interview is quite an achievement in that Franco and Rogen managed to be more unlikeable than a brutal dictator who has been mocked since before he was even in power.
There was a time when he caught covid or was sick enough international communities said his sister would be taking over the country... i saw memes of her being kid buu and it was uncanny to me lol
I will say... Though it's odd to offer a defense for Kim Jung un. But driving a truck or car or anything as a child isn't all that hard. I drove trucks and tractors as well as shit guns as a 3 year old. There are pics of me at diaper age driving a tractor and shooting my .22. I grew up in a hillbilly farm family of course. But the idea of the Kim's letting their kids operate machinery for fun as children is not far fetched.
aren't people often similar to their grandparents? idk how exactly but genes express themselves in the 2nd generation. for an unfortunate example, my father had a full head of hair all his life, meanwhile i lost most of mine around 30, like my grandpas (a bonus was that one had a bald front, one had a bald top, and i got both yay)
In the case of androgenic hair loss, it is the maternal grandfather which exerts the strongest influence. Most of the promoters related to hair growth on the scalp are carried on the X chromosome. This is also why hair loss is usually lower in females, because they have two x chromosomes there are usually enough redundant copies of the relevant genes to make up for any changes.
Just to add on, more generally, the "skip a generation" thing is a result of how one's parents could both have the same recessive gene (which had been expressed by a grandparent), which would then be expressed by 1 in 4 of the following generation.
No mention of the Hoeryong concentration camp? Seemed like a weak episode that overlooked some of the horrible things done by The Kim family. Perhaps a poorly researched episode. Seems to paint Km Jong Un as just an occasionally angry, but essentially fun kind of character. Disappointing episode, poorly done.
The camp closed in 2011 or 2012 after operating from the mid-1960s. We don't know why it closed, and from what I dredged out of Wikipedia, it sounds like a Gulag camp on steroids, but we won't know the reality until we can get into the DPRK state archives, which may be never.
Kinda sounds like he has adhd 😅 hasn't really grown up fully, couldn't focus on school and preferred an unhealthy hyperfocus on stuff he's interested in lol emotive disregulation and rejection sensetivity dismorphia probably seeming from ababdonment trauma
Correction for the Isaac Hayes thing. Apparently Scientology contacted South Park, while Hayes was sick/incapacitated and basically resigned on his behalf without the authority to do so.
Thank you for posting this.
I appreciate an honest report like this. Goes to show you don't have to exaggerate and demonize to recognize and acknowledge a bastard.
A lot of this story reminds me of the Roman Emperors who were born to the purple in the early years of the Empire (Caligula and Commodus, particularly). They had the same conditions of being raised into absolute power and ending up with a streak of childishness and cruelty.
We need an update for this
I don't know how much Sozu is different in North Korea compared to what you can get in the states, but for that alcohol story I've seen Sozu ranging from 13-16 percent alcohol, so yeah they were definitely gettin wasted
At 45:00, cars and yachts are seen as common or garden possessions in Western cinema and games, while airplanes are not-everyone exotica. The message would be, "the prosperity you see in bootleg media is real, and Great Leader has long been drawing the nation toward it."
That story about Kim Jong Un giving a rocket scoentist a piggy back ride is hilarious to me. But how horrified would you be being that scientist? Like imagine you accidentally kick him a little bit and have to wonder if youre going to die. Its sounds hilarious and awful in equal parts.
The Interview had a Chinese cast that couldn't speak Korean and all the Korean text was from Google translate or just gibberish.
Yeah tbh I don't want to sound pro-Kim Jong Un (or pro-threatening people into not seeing movies), but it just seemed like a douchey, obnoxious concept. "Ha ha, wouldn't it be funny if America assassinated this real live person who currently exists, and coup'ed a sovereign nation, even though we have an extremely ugly IRL history of doing that (especially to non-white rulers of developing nations)? Isn't that a hilarious movie premise?" IMHO, no it's not.
The Interview is quite an achievement in that Franco and Rogen managed to be more unlikeable than a brutal dictator who has been mocked since before he was even in power.
There was a time when he caught covid or was sick enough international communities said his sister would be taking over the country... i saw memes of her being kid buu and it was uncanny to me lol
I will say... Though it's odd to offer a defense for Kim Jung un. But driving a truck or car or anything as a child isn't all that hard. I drove trucks and tractors as well as shit guns as a 3 year old. There are pics of me at diaper age driving a tractor and shooting my .22.
I grew up in a hillbilly farm family of course. But the idea of the Kim's letting their kids operate machinery for fun as children is not far fetched.
aren't people often similar to their grandparents? idk how exactly but genes express themselves in the 2nd generation. for an unfortunate example, my father had a full head of hair all his life, meanwhile i lost most of mine around 30, like my grandpas (a bonus was that one had a bald front, one had a bald top, and i got both yay)
In the case of androgenic hair loss, it is the maternal grandfather which exerts the strongest influence. Most of the promoters related to hair growth on the scalp are carried on the X chromosome. This is also why hair loss is usually lower in females, because they have two x chromosomes there are usually enough redundant copies of the relevant genes to make up for any changes.
Just to add on, more generally, the "skip a generation" thing is a result of how one's parents could both have the same recessive gene (which had been expressed by a grandparent), which would then be expressed by 1 in 4 of the following generation.
No mention of the Hoeryong concentration camp? Seemed like a weak episode that overlooked some of the horrible things done by The Kim family. Perhaps a poorly researched episode. Seems to paint Km Jong Un as just an occasionally angry, but essentially fun kind of character. Disappointing episode, poorly done.
The camp closed in 2011 or 2012 after operating from the mid-1960s. We don't know why it closed, and from what I dredged out of Wikipedia, it sounds like a Gulag camp on steroids, but we won't know the reality until we can get into the DPRK state archives, which may be never.
Kinda sounds like he has adhd 😅 hasn't really grown up fully, couldn't focus on school and preferred an unhealthy hyperfocus on stuff he's interested in lol emotive disregulation and rejection sensetivity dismorphia probably seeming from ababdonment trauma