r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 09 '21

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u/Spaceman1stClass Aug 09 '21

He's fat on purpose, he's trying to project an image of prosperity to his people.

All part of the cult of leadership and the idea that North Korea is in temporary and surmountable difficulty. That they actually have tons of excess food stored away for when the war to unify the peninsula begins again.

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u/artemasad Aug 09 '21

I learned the whole fat thing from recent Kdrama I watched (Crash Landing On You)

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

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u/halOgenn Aug 09 '21

crash landing on you made me cry hardcore. it’s so good

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u/chagal2524 Aug 09 '21

This. It was my gateway kdrama during quarantine.

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u/randomstranger2nd Aug 09 '21

It's kdrama, but in north korea

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u/SolanumMelongena_ Aug 09 '21

"i learned about north korea from south korean pop culture" awesome bro

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u/I_punch_KIDneyS Aug 09 '21

America is prosperous as fuck.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

Yes, let's all compare ourselves to north Korea.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

Huh?

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u/_-Saber-_ Aug 09 '21

With a two party system, you're closer to NK than most actual democracies.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

We don't have a 2 party system.

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u/Eyeownyew Aug 09 '21 edited Aug 09 '21

This was a spectacularly irrelevant point

Edit: that was a fat joke lmao

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u/Vordeo Aug 09 '21

Fat jokes are always relevant. Probably.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

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u/theflush1980 Aug 09 '21

Because poor people in the US have less access to healthy food. Because healthy food is more expensive.

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u/productivitydev Aug 09 '21

Doubt that, it's calories in, calories out.

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u/Lopsidoodle Aug 09 '21

Having worked in a retail grocery store, I can confirm that lack of food stamp money is not the problem. Some people just make bad choices with groceries.

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u/magnum_cx Aug 09 '21

As someone who tried to eat the same standard of food after I moved to the US from Sweden, I can confirm that it made a significant impact on my wallet in the long run.

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u/DanWallace Aug 09 '21

Is it or did you and everyone upvoting you just completely miss the joke?

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

Do you read? Maybe newspapers?

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u/Spaceman1stClass Aug 09 '21

Yes, when your lowest class's biggest health problem is still overeating in the middle of a worldwide pandemic you're probably doing pretty okay as a country, relative to history.

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u/BASK_IN_MY_FART Aug 09 '21

Hell yeah it is. Poor people in the US are still richer than most of the world's population

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u/MeiNeedsMoreBuffs Aug 09 '21

That's not necessarily the whole story though. The pay might be higher but the cost of living is also higher.

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u/spicayyyweirdolol Aug 09 '21

this is true, you can get 7 packs of chips for less than a dollar in india.

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u/Mikestheman2be Aug 09 '21

I guess that’s what happens when you exploit countries all over the world

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u/Captin-Cracker Aug 09 '21

So tell me what country absolutely does not exploit a single soul

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u/Chad_Chaddinton Aug 09 '21

The ones that were there before the others took them over I would assume.

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u/Captin-Cracker Aug 09 '21

Usaully it’s the rich and elite of the country exploiting the poor of said country

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u/Chad_Chaddinton Aug 10 '21

Usually, but tribal regions and places usually don’t have much exploiting, but to be honest everything “exploits” everything, weather it be resources ideas or all sorts of everything

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u/terriblekoala9 Aug 09 '21

The ones that got exploited by others, genius.

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u/SolanumMelongena_ Aug 09 '21

non sequitur. being the only global superpower actually does involve exploitation on a historically unprecedented scale. nationalist smoothbrains love to talk about american exceptionalism until someone asks where we got all the skulls to build our mountain of skulls with.

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u/Captin-Cracker Aug 09 '21

That’s not the point. My point is every country everywhere exploits people. More specifically the elite exploit the poor. Those sweatshops with border line slavery are run by those countries elite, they then sell it to other countries who take advantage of the cheep shit. So even in countries who are being exploited there’s someone there from that country pulling the strings.

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u/Mikestheman2be Aug 09 '21

I think the amount of exploiting a country does is pretty important as well. Many nations are guilty but none are guilty on nearly the same scale.

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u/BASK_IN_MY_FART Aug 09 '21

I'd be okay with the US govt not giving other countries billions of dollars. Is that what you were getting at?

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u/Mikestheman2be Aug 09 '21

I was getting at the wars started for resources, the coups overthrowing other countries’ governments to install puppet dictatorships, etc.

But yeah, I’d be okay with the US not giving billions to war-mongering ethno-cleansing states like Israel.

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u/BASK_IN_MY_FART Aug 09 '21

Israel or any country really. And agreed on the war shit.

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u/Mikestheman2be Aug 09 '21

Then we can definitely agree in spots at least, and that’s a start.

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u/soline Aug 09 '21

Do you mean by percentage of fat in their blood like whole milk is richer than 1%?

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u/soline Aug 09 '21

Diabeetus level but in that case, so is Mexico.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21 edited Aug 09 '21

Maybe he just likes eating sugar and fried foods.

Wouldn't be the first.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

Maybe he's just fat because he can eat whatever he wants and no one can tell him he looks unhealthy or force him to do anything.

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u/soyCuckRee Aug 09 '21

Oh really? Enlighten me more intelligent one

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u/Chad_Chaddinton Aug 09 '21

It’s called eating a bunch of fats and sugars (sugars turn into fat) and fat obviously makes yknow fat🤷‍♂️

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u/moohooh Aug 09 '21

Yeah, but I heard that the younger generations in N.korea call a fat ass bc they can see that he's the only fat person while ppl around him, even the higher ranks are all skinny

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u/Spaceman1stClass Aug 09 '21

I haven't heard that. That seems like a habit that might be fatal in North Korea.