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Well yeah but I live in a city that has events too and usually the rest of the roads are not just shut down and devoid of people. Hell I'm not ruling out that I'm being ignorant and this is just some cultural thing but I'm just saying it looks kinda surreal to my eyes
you've been huffing too much anti-DPRK bullshit dude. There's like 1/5th of a block that's visible of street with no cars. I can find you 1000 pictures of events in the west like this. Seriously why do you let this seep into your brain so uncritically.
This "DPRK is weird and alien and surreal" line of discussion is orientalist otherizing bullshit and you know it, and you've heard so many Liberals repeating it which is why your mind jumped there in the first place. You've been programmed to have this thought.
Honestly like all of the news/content I see on the DPRK is pretty fucking positive lol (albeit I don't see it that much and overall I would say I don't know much about the country/culture).
I could see my comment being counterproductive in the sense that it seems like something a concern-trolling lib might say, so I'm sympathetic to the idea that I should have just not posted it. I guess I figured this was a leftist enough space that people wouldn't take my comment in bad faith, but I feel like that's what you did. Because, while I did admit that maybe this is just some cultural difference or something I'm not aware of (and not some sinister evil government plot) - you saying you can find 1000 pictures of cities in the west like this genuinely surprises me.
Like... I've lived in regions that look a lot like this, in terms of building size and everything. Places where streets are frequently shut down for events. But usually, such events attract stragglers at the borders, usually there's lots of people coming and going. This is all just what I'm used to seeing and I'm not trying to apply some sort of value judgement to that but I am nonetheless surprised by your claim that this happens all the time in the west because, frankly, I don't think I could produce one similar picture if I tried. If you want, you can dig some up for me, but I'll take you at your word that you've seen this a lot. I guess I just haven't?