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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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"

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Juche Magic strikes again

[–] Civility@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago

🎈

👨‍👨‍👦🇮🇱

kim-drip

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

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

[–] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Based if true

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Look at that dope-ass bear!

[–] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

it's a pretty awesome bear

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wake up babe new DPRK execution myth just dropped

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Zionists aren't worth a rocket

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] goose@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

just guys being dudes

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

Chinese spy balloon kelly

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

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

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago
[–] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago
[–] SovietWaveGoddess@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

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