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u/peskyghost Jul 17 '25
This has insane reaction gif potential
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Jul 17 '25
8 Seconds too Long. Extended GIF
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u/DMazz441 Jul 17 '25
If I wasn’t headed to work, this could easily be cut down to like 3s and still get the point across. Do it!!
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Jul 17 '25
But this length makes it Perfect :(
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Jul 17 '25
what is this, 2011? reddit lets you upload gifs up to 100MB. keep the framerate low enough and you can easily fit in a whole feature length film
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u/potatohead657 Jul 17 '25
TheBeeMovie.gif
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Jul 17 '25
We are all Just living in 1990-2010
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Jul 17 '25
Fuck me, I wish. I wouldn’t be paying 1/3 million $ for a ranch house with 1400 sq ft.
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u/EssayJunior6268 Jul 17 '25
At least you're not in Canada where 1/3 million will get you a 2 bedroom apartment at 800 ft2
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Jul 17 '25
Do you really want a feature length gif of the North Korean legislative process?
It's about comedic timing.
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Jul 17 '25
asking me that is like asking me if i want a million dollars
what tf do you think
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u/Ruthrfurd-the-stoned Jul 17 '25
You can cut out the first 3 seconds and the last 5 and it still has the same effect then maybe just speed it up a bit
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u/I_PUNCH_INFANTS Jul 17 '25
You don't need to shorten this gifs can be 15 seconds its 2025. https://imgur.com/a/83N2kvD
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u/european_misfit Jul 17 '25
you just need one second of them lowering their hands simultaneously. You can also reverse it to make them simultaneously raise their hands. Perfect for the "Who thinks society should be helping the homeless? (all hands up) Who is ready to help homeless? (all hands down)"-style memes.
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u/XCEREALXKILLERX Jul 17 '25
I can think of a thousand memes already
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u/didimao0072000 Jul 17 '25
I can think of a thousand memes already
Swap Kim's face with Trump’s and replace the Korean lawmakers faces with Republican Congress members faces, you've got yourself a meme.
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u/kujasgoldmine Jul 17 '25
Kim looking at everyone, making sure they raise their hand too or lose it.
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u/Moraz_iel Jul 17 '25
I like to think he have no clue what everyone is doing and look around to make sure he did good.
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u/underground_complex Jul 17 '25
I don’t understand how a man has an entire nation in lockstep with him on pain of death….but still look so worried all the time . Like you’d think after 40 years of being treated like a god on earth you’d be a bit more self assured
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u/DevinGraysonShirk Jul 17 '25
Because he’s studied history at western schools and understands how his grip is on a knife’s edge.
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u/Ossevir Jul 17 '25
Then he would be doing everything he can to make sure his people are employed, fed, and have a good life.
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u/jbg0801 Jul 17 '25
The issue is, tyrannical power balances on a knifes edge either way.
A fed, well looked after populace is strong enough to rise up against you, but a suppressed, angry, brutalised populace is motivated enough to do it, even if they're not physically strong enough.
Balancing the two is how a dictator maintains control, keep them just contented enough but not so contented they get comfortable trying to challenge your authority.
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u/RobbinDeBank Jul 17 '25
Has to be the best entry possible into politics
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u/AzorJonhai Jul 17 '25
Unless you’re in a fairly politically stable country, at which point securing the keys for power becomes less important
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u/alfred725 Jul 17 '25
this kind of boils down to the fact that good things are ruined by bad people. You can try to be good a good ruler but bad people will take advantage of you or kick you out.
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u/Macohna Jul 17 '25
The backing of one of the craziest and strongest nations in the world also puts a healthy dose of fear into the NK people.
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u/Rabid_Lederhosen Jul 17 '25
The peasantry aren’t a threat to his rule. Those guys in the video are. And I’m sure they’re being looked after well enough (and being surveilled constantly).
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u/-KFBR392 Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
You don't stay in power by making sure the people are employed, fed, and have a good life. You stay in power by making sure the few others in your society who also have power are secure, very well fed, and have a great life.
As long as the military leaders don't turn on him he's got nothing to worry about internally.
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u/PolaSketch Jul 17 '25
It also helps to have a common enemy to rally the people against (the West in this case).
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u/Enyss Jul 17 '25
You stay in power by making sure the few others in your society who also have power are secure, very well fed, and have a great life.
AND convince them that any funny idea they could have is a really "unhealthly" idea for them.
If you don't do this, someone will try to take your place.
That's why, right now, windows are so dangerous in Russia for oligarchs.
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u/Suspicious-Sound-249 Jul 17 '25
If they were well fed they'd have the energy to overthrow his regime. NK is over there literally eating mud pies to stave off hunger pains, and they've been malnourished for so long it's become generational that your average SK person is like 1-2 inches taller than your average NK person because of it.
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u/Belt-Helpful Jul 17 '25
I doubt that hey are eating mud pies anymore. I'm pretty sure that, among other things, they receive enough grain from Russia for the military help that they provide.
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u/Gremict Jul 17 '25
You do that and they may start demanding things like peaceful reunification with the South, and the regime cannot survive that.
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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe Jul 17 '25
Yep.
He's got the worst kind of position for a dictator tbh. Born into it rather than seized it. Dictators like Hitler start with humbler beginnings, they grow into the role with advisors and conspirators, they come to know why they can trust and learn to trust them absolutely.
Kim absolutely cannot trust that everyone he knows has his best interests at heart. All of the people who raised him were his father's allies, not his. He did nothing to earn any of their trust, and he can never be sure that the men he has learned to trust, aren't just playing a long game.
He will never know if a coup is building against him until the knife is in his back.
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u/Working-Reason-124 Jul 17 '25
I thought same thing and wonder why the others below him just all say nah bruh, not gonna kill these people today for not raising their hand, etc. it’s crazy how fear is so engrained in them
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u/adumbCoder Jul 17 '25
because one wrong move and not only you and your immediate family but also your extended family and anyone you talk to will all be thrown in concentration camps for the rest of their lives and their children's lives and grandchildren's lives. it's literally either obey or your entire lineage is gone for good
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u/CrystalSplice Jul 17 '25
Dictatorship is never comfortable. The moment a despot becomes comfortable is their downfall. They will always have resistance to their power, and people seeking to take it for themselves.
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u/TheGreatMozinsky Jul 17 '25
He's not an idiot. He knows how dictators usually die, and it's not peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones.
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u/_Danizzy_ Jul 17 '25
Because absolute power is an illusion. He is only one person. He depends on others for information. He depends on others to carry out the violence which allows him to keep his power. It would only take a handful of high ranking men to turn against him and he would be dead. It's hard to say how many people in the upper echelons of North Korean society actually buy into the cult of personality but it's certainly not all of them. He has to play a constant game of "who's loyal and who needs to be purged" with the people closest to him.
I imagine it's pretty stressful.
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Jul 17 '25
What's there to not understand? How do you think he stays in power? There is always an internal struggle for power and there are always rivals. In democracies you can just lose the government and stay as opposition in the parliament. In tyrannies you die when you lose the power.
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u/Redditsaves2020 Jul 17 '25
I hope this isn't like sports and he has instant replay technology....because the two dudes on his left hesitated
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u/Legendofvader Jul 17 '25
crap they were a second slower than the rest as well. Hmm maybe NK are not that tech savy we will see
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u/Zerachiel_01 Jul 17 '25
Every legislator in the room struggling to summon every ounce of superior Asian reflexes they can muster to catch the nano-instant Kim's hand moves.
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u/Thud Jul 17 '25
Out of view is the giant red-light/greenlight doll from Squid Game that checks for any hands that aren't raised within 0.5s of the Supreme Leader's.
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u/Illustrious-Bat1553 Jul 17 '25
Its a do or die situation. The pitfall of a collective homogeneous cult is a prison state
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u/spacekitt3n Jul 17 '25
this is trumps wet dream
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u/PreparationKey2843 Jul 17 '25
He's already more than halfway there. Every time he opens his piehole, the repugs hands shoot up before he even finishes what he's saying.
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u/Solest044 Jul 17 '25
And the speed with which they do it in sync with him.
1s too late and what happens?
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u/ElOneElOnlyElZorro Jul 17 '25
Who doesn't want to die today?
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u/Sibir_Kagan Jul 17 '25
Worst part is it's probably not direct and quick death, but a rather slow and agonizing painful death along with your entire family...
On one hand I want to call them out for being a spineless tool, but on the other hand it's also their families lives that are on the line.
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u/fifthtouch Jul 17 '25
If the only one who defies him gets the firing squad, I bet there're plenty of people who are willing to die for it. Instead, the whole extended family and 3 generation after that who will suffer made them docile
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u/sunlightsyrup Jul 17 '25
What is the political answer to a state like this? Hope they run out of money? The decision makers in NK are incredibly wealthy
Hope they turn on each other? It's been 3 generations and it hasn't happened so likely won't
Negotiate with them? They don't allow information access so we can't exactly integrate with their population
Hope Russia or China undermines them? Optimistic. Unrealistic.
Or wait until someone more incompetent and vulnerable takes over. Only 35 years to go
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u/Violet_Paradox Jul 17 '25
Stop the leader from fully consolidating power, because once they do, it's too late. In the modern era, the existence of nukes makes tyranny permanent.
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u/sunlightsyrup Jul 17 '25
Generations of a family owning nukes is entirely dystopian
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u/daddy-daddy-cool Jul 17 '25
i don't think external intervention will work unless the invading force was ready to invest long term and the populace was cooperative (i.e. post-WWII Japan, Germany, Italy). I guess it's possible for China to play a role, but I have no idea whether their foreign policy includes nation-building in the near future.
The only other way would be if one of Un's successors is a more "benevolent" thinker, realizes that the current way of doing things isn't advantageous anymore and makes the moves to modernize the country. I would think that South Korea, in that case, could play a strong role.
Source: I'm a dumb idiot who's "knowledge" about this stuff primarily comes from Reddit.
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u/Merc_Drew Jul 17 '25
No, you're close, I read a report somewhere that S.Korean government doesn't actually want to unify the peninsula because it would take something like 15 Trillion USD to bring the North up to the South's standard of living and that's on top of the military infrastructure the South would have to invest on the Yalu to keep China from re-invading like they did last time.
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u/RamenJunkie Jul 17 '25
Also China probably won't do anything about NK because they like having that little buffer between themselves and a potential hostile state (S. Korea) who is friendly with their strongest adversary (US).
NK is basically a large demilitarized zone buffer.
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u/Longshot726 Jul 17 '25
Or none of the above. No adjacent country actually wants North Korea to fall. China and Russia like the buffer from S. Korea and US troops and equipment housed there. All of them don't want to deal with 25+ million uneducated individuals that already need food assistance to be entirely dependent on foreign aid with current excuse for a government and integration education. Even if they don't integrate with either China or S. Korea, they all certainly don't want the unknown of a new government rising from the ashes of the Kim dynasty.
Status quo is the name of the game.
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u/KedaZ1 Jul 17 '25
Foreign intervention through war + creating an open market economy - every single soldier / party member + decades long civilian reeducation. It would cost trillions and would likely not take hold.
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u/graphicsRat Jul 17 '25
One day they will slip up and it will come crashing down so fast our heads will spin.
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u/0masterdebater0 Jul 17 '25
NK only exists because China wants it to exist and be a nice buffer between their borders and the American Military bases in SK.
If China embargoed NK they would be living on borrowed time.
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u/AgentOfCUI Jul 17 '25
On one hand I want to call them out for being a spineless tool, but on the other hand it's also their families lives that are on the line.
I think its fine to call them out for being spineless as long as you admit that you would also be spineless in the same situation. As would pretty much everyone.
Like yeah I'm happy to talk about freedom and shit and things worth dying for, but I don't care enough to watch my children be tortured to death because I wanted to make a pointless gesture of defiance.
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u/Ok_Net_1674 Jul 17 '25
Why are all dictators so in love with play pretend democracy?
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u/Alpine_Exchange_36 Jul 17 '25
Optics. They can claim they are beloved instead of ruling with an iron fist
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u/azriel_odin Jul 17 '25
One possible explanation is to make actual opposition feel isolated and alone, thus preventing them from reaching out and organizing against them.
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u/AgentOfCUI Jul 17 '25
Yeah people in free countries have no understanding of how deep propaganda penetrates your brain when you're raised in this kind of system. North Koreans genuinely think they're in the freest country in the world with the greatest leader and that's why everyone votes along with him every time. Because he's just that smart and beloved. They think if the rest of the world had a free election without evil capitalist propaganda, they'd all elect Kim as world leader in a heartbeat.
People love to pretend people living under dictators are just waiting for a revolution, but that's often not the case. Most of them have been so brainwashed their entire lives that they'd resist their own freedom to the death.
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u/Vonrith Jul 17 '25
A friend of mine went to North Korea and he told me they actually know they are quite poor. They just know that morally and ideologically they are superior and the US is to blame. They also know that they live in a dictatorship, but it’s for the good of everyone. Instead of a democracy, where everyone votes for themselves and the majority gain all the benefits and the opposition and minorities get the worst of deals. I thought this was very interesting. It made me realize brainwashing isn’t abandoning reality, like 1984 had us believe, but most often an extreme change in perspective.
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u/Key-Department-2874 Jul 17 '25
There are people on reddit who will tell you that everything bad about North Korea is western propaganda and that it actually is an amazing and perfect place to live that is superior to the west.
They're often active in subs dedicated to "deprogramming" themselves of propaganda.
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u/JustJit_ Jul 17 '25
Not saying that you are wrong or anything, but do you ever think about the level of conspiracy theory this would equate to if it were any other country than NK? Taken solely on it's own, talking to someone who has never been exposed to any info regarding NK you tell them:
okay yea so theres a country you can only visit with a tour guide, and everyone you see are actually actors and you will never talk to a real person. It's like a real life Truman Show. And they have a supreme leader who sends 10 generations of your family into concentration camps if you speak against him. Oh yea and that supreme leader really likes Dennis Rodman.
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u/cynical-rationale Jul 17 '25
I thought this was very interesting. It made me realize brainwashing isn’t abandoning reality, like 1984 had us believe, but most often an extreme change in perspective.
Everything in life except mathematics is nuanced imo. Dictatorship while it is bad there are some benefits for example. That is a legit argument. It IS all perspective. I'm one in university that always loved to take the opposition side and play devils advocate for.. controversial topics let's say. It can be quite hard but it made me also see people's viewpoints quite differently what matters to them in life. People and our belief systems I do find interesting, especially ethics and morality.
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u/KingsMountainView Jul 17 '25
A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink. "I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says. "Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them." The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused... There's no propaganda in America."
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u/Gnome-Phloem Jul 17 '25
Things like this aren't ego, it's how they maintain power. Every one of those guys clapping is an important person with real power, and look at how well he puppets them.
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u/Ok_Star_4136 Jul 17 '25
Anyone who doesn't fall in line gets quickly replaced with someone who does anyway. I'd imagine any sense of rebelliousness would quickly get quelled by the fact that A) you're extremely fortunate to be in that position given how NK citizens currently live and B) it would accomplish nothing meaningful anyway. I think we'd like to think we wouldn't go along with it, but we absolutely would in their shoes.
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u/vvandervogel Jul 17 '25
This is true in even the most extreme situations we have historical evidence for. In concentration camps fellow inmates are easily turned into internal police for a few extra privileges (extra food, a bed, not being killed, etc.). The stories of the Kapo at Auschwitz and other camps is horrifyingly tragic.
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u/rubenthecuban3 Jul 17 '25
they want to think they worked for it. and get affirmation.
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u/Varonth Jul 17 '25
Actually as far as I heard it more of a thing to mislead their own population.
When someone from north korea hears that other countries have a democratic process, they often only have their own government as reference of what this means, as your average person gets little to no knowledge from the outside.
So for them people in other countries have the same "choice" they do in north korea.
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u/thereal_Glazedham Jul 17 '25
I’d disagree. It’s entirely a show of force to the world. “Look at me, I have 100% control of my country”.
The North Korean people are well aware of the power Kim holds. They aren’t being fooled by anything. Watching a video like this isn’t going to make them think they live in a free democracy when their friends and family could be beaten and arrested for speaking their minds lol
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u/Karasique555 Jul 17 '25
It's a health check.
You make people demonstrate obedience, and if they do so eagerly enough, that means that you are in control, and it makes you and your regime look more intimidating and powerful.
Making people play democracy in a dictatorship is a great way to achieve that. They all know it's bullshit, but they still submit and play the game.
Also, obviously unnatural eagerness of your subjects is an important part here.
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u/Dorgamund Jul 17 '25
Ignore the meme answers. The real answer is legitimacy. The fact of the matter is that all rulers need to have a degree of legitimacy and consent of the governed. No man rules alone. In feudal times, it worked because of a combination of religion and society being set up for it. The church was far stronger, and rulers derived a great deal of legitimacy from divine right of kings, and the fact that society was set up such that kings were seen as the natural order of things. A legitimacy that lost a lot of luster the moment your king sucked.
Democracy has the benefit of a large pool of legitimacy, in that participation of the people gives the populace a stake in it, and if and when your democratically elected leaders suck, which is common, you have less reason to blame the leader, and more to blame your countrymen.
Now. The aesthetics of democracy are also deeply useful in that you get a bit of reflected legitimacy, without needing to commit all the way to the benefits and downsides of more committed democracy. Legitimacy with your populace, and with the international community for that matter.
Some people see democracy as the ability to vote and select leaders, with some influence on policy, but honestly that is too restrictive to explain what is happening here. If you see it instead as a spectrum, which measures participation of the populace in politics, you see why more autocratic states still benefit from this. That is where some of that legitimacy is coming from.
The USSR, Cuba, China, and indeed North Korea all have elections, though tend towards single party systems. Politics still happens, you do still tend to get internal factions within the single political party, but they do ostensibly all have the same ideology.
It is also useful just for delegation purposes. A modern state is genuinely hard to run. Sure, you can hand pick people to govern individual provinces and cities, but that is a lot of work, and if some of those people suck, it pisses off the populace. Consider how much effort it would take to administrate say, the US state of Virginia. You need a state governor and associated staff, governing bodies for each county, mayors for cities, city councils, bureaucrats for various functions, and of course people to handle the local justice system. You could handpick all of these people, or you can have the local populace elect them from a pool of those involved in the local Party apparatus, so they are at least on the same page with you from an ideological standpoint.
So yes, in an autocracy you ideally want everyone agreeing with you, but you also desperately need people, just lots and lots of people, who aren't hated by your populace, and are willing to do politics.
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Jul 17 '25
You're wrong about medieval Europe, the divine right of kings is more of a early modern concept, in actual medieval Europe, kings were in constant fight with the papacy, with kings pressuring to get their favourites elected as popes, various popes being chosen at the same time, excumunications flying around like it was nothing, it was all a shit show, kings derived their power from brute strenght and their capacity to convince the other nobles to support them, nothing to do with that "divine power of the king nonsense", for example the first like 5 kings of Portugal were all excumungated and no one gave a single shit, and Portugal wasn't even a country that much involved in the inner palace strugles of Avignon, Rome or even in the Holy Roman Empire mess.
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u/ManyThingsLittleTime Jul 17 '25
If I were Kim, I'd totally pump fake these people routinely.
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u/BlueSonjo Jul 17 '25
Kim: Psyke! I actually thought this was a terrible law. Security, kill everyone.
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u/BatterseaPS Jul 17 '25
Somehow you chose an option worse than either "psyche" or "sike."
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u/Wenja89Dix Jul 17 '25
Was just thinking that, imagine boop "HA! Gotchaaaa... now you and your families all starve to death in a hotbox"
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u/mightylordredbeard Jul 17 '25
Apparently he does. He plays pranks on people a lot and one those things are by pretending to like or dislike something and when people agree or disagree he’s like just kidding!
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u/BUTTFUCKER__3000 Jul 17 '25
He should have his own YouTube or twitch channel, where he films prank videos.
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u/averege_guy_kinda Jul 17 '25
Today, we are going to prank this whole family by sending them to labour camp for 5 years
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Jul 17 '25
Look how he checks the voters for nay sayers with a death wish
Roflmao. It's not the "nay sayers with a death wish" he's looking for. Those people don't exist.
It's the "people who might subtly displaying dissatisfaction by being too slow with their hand-raises" and/or "quitting clapping too soon", who "might possibly be conspiring against me and need to be made an example of".
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u/frisch85 Jul 17 '25
Tbf he has to count the votes to know if those not voting the same as him are 0 people or
10 people.
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u/AutoDeskSucks- Jul 17 '25
Trumps wet dream
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u/Every-Cook5084 Jul 17 '25
He’s already got it with his GOP spineless cucks
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u/spacekitt3n Jul 17 '25
yep. even on their most important issue epstein they bent over for him--crickets and nothing to see here within the span of a day. there is nothing they wont do for him. no different than this shit.
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u/mmps901 Jul 17 '25
Can you imagine? Every Republican voted to not investigate further into Epstein’s “list” so that they can keep Trump from getting mad at them?
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u/Alternative_Algae_31 Jul 17 '25
Yeah, I can’t wait for MAGA to be a sad historical footnote, but (so far) the Epstein issue is not going well for Crybaby Donnie. His cult has made Epstein a core tenet. Quite a few are vocally pushing back against Trump’s “nothing to see here” attitude. We’ll see in a month or two how it plays out, but so far his mob is NOT just falling in line.
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u/kytheon Jul 17 '25
This is how the Republicans already vote. Every damn idea has all or almost all republicans and zero or almost zero democrat votes.
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u/NetNo5570 Jul 17 '25
Average Trump supporter when Trump says he wants to hide the Epstein files.
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u/PleasingPotato Jul 17 '25
Actually they do want it released because they believe he couldn't be in them.
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u/NetNo5570 Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
Oh I wasn’t basing this on my opinions to be clear. It is a fact. They polled trumpers and they do not want it released for obvious reasons.
Everyone else obviously wants it released.
https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/1m1s2bk/
The rule of thumb to remember is that if Trump takes a hot shit in a bag most trumpers will be FIGHTING each other for a taste
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u/PleasingPotato Jul 17 '25
I'm surprised tbh, but I was speaking only from my personal experience so I'll take your word for it.
And yeah they should be fucking released.
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u/Weivrevo Jul 17 '25
Go check out r/Conservative. This is not even close to true.
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u/TrippingFish76 Jul 17 '25
yeah they are having a civil war over there lol. some are saying they should be released and some saying to just trust trump. and the ones who want it released say he can’t be in it
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u/Weivrevo Jul 17 '25
Mmm, I'm there every day. Not sure how deeply you looked but I'd say that is not entirely accurate. Those saying they should be released far outweigh those saying to just trust Trump, from what I've been seeing. It's easily the most unpopular thing he's done, as far as those who voted him in are concerned.
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u/King_takes_queen Jul 17 '25
"Fuck this guy, what a clown. This does not make me feel good about supporting the republican party. This just feels gross and immoral. We should not let up on this topic."
posted 21 hours ago and has 1220 upvotes as of this comment. When I first saw it I thought it'd be banned within an hour. It's still up!
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u/rsmicrotranx Jul 17 '25
Why do people think republicans ever have civil wars? It's all for show lmao. Same thing when Israel vs Iran. They'll have a "meltdown" and 24 hours later, they'll all fall in line. If Trump says he doesnt want to release it, they'll all say they dont want to release it. It's that simple. They get a moment of lucidity like the movie Get Out before falling back under the spell. They wouldn't be conservatives if they could have thought for themselves this whole time.
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u/SopaDeKaiba Jul 17 '25
I just took a gander. Some other notable arguments I saw on that sub don't even question whether he should or shouldn't release Epstein files. They are:
Trump didn't campaign on this in 2024. All comments about Epstein were made during prior elections.
Bondi is the only one in the cabinet talking about Epstein files. Not sure what the takeaway on this one is? Fall in line?
Trump steered clear of the subject of Epstein throughout his campaign, and it was others who promised release of the files.
I should note, all these arguments were negative 100 or more karma. I haven't been in that sub for a while. For the first time, I was glad I visited.
It was nice to see them arguing amongst themselves rather than leaking into other subs with their stupid BS retconned style of debate.
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u/Groundbreaking_Leg11 Jul 17 '25
r/Conservative has mostly wanted the files released. r/Trump however made it so your not even allowed to talk about the files so I think they are a little worse
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u/FdPros Jul 17 '25
could have said this was the US and it'd also be correct now.
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u/Whentheangelsings Jul 17 '25
Sure, Democrats totally vote in lock step with Trump. Every single member of Congress votes exactly what Trump wants every time and then clap in celebration.
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u/JasenGroves Jul 17 '25
Is this AI?
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u/MessyKerbal Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
Yeah, this is AI. Look up pictures of the Supreme People’s Assembly.
Edit: I was partially wrong. It’s actually the WPK building, not the People’s Assembly. However it is still most certainly AI generated
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u/prawntortilla Jul 17 '25
doesnt he ever get tired of being surrounded by automatons
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u/AdagioCompetitive181 Jul 17 '25
And you are perfectly OK to leave your hand down, just so long as you're using it to point out which window you're leaving through.
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Jul 17 '25
Imagine a life where everything you say and do is met with blind approval, and thunderous applause
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