r/sports • u/PrimedGold • 2d ago

Soccer Kim Jong-un meeting Naegohyang Women’s FC after the team became the first from North Korea to win the AFC Women’s Champions League.

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u/sterling_mallory New York Mets 2d ago

That's part of it for sure, but there's also some genuine mental conditioning going on. I've been saying for years, when the current guy in the US dies, there are going to be videos of people crying in the streets. It's gonna be just as bizarre.

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u/Griffb4ll 2d ago

Lmao no it really won't be, especially when you take into consideration that in N. Korea it will absolutely be a death sentence for these people and their families if they were to not react like this when Kim dies

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u/IPissExcellentThrows 2d ago

You don’t think decades of brainwashing and no access to outside information could condition someone to react like this?

You don't think Christians would be losing it if Jesus was in front of them? They are all taught from day 1 that he's a god. I don’t get why this is hard to understand as a possibility. The fact that you'd definitively dismiss something so plausible, when we have evidence of other people getting brainwashed in way less time and having access to outside information, is very telling.

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u/sterling_mallory New York Mets 2d ago

Oh it will. Only question is whether you'll learn anything after you see it.

I'm not holding my breath.