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[-] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 58 points 13 hours ago

The Irony is that squid game can absolutely be used by propaganda to show how bad the south is. Just do some edit to present-it as a documentary rather than a fiction.

[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

Any criticism of power structures in general is a threat to dictators.

[-] dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz 3 points 8 hours ago

@yucandu @world Which is why Trump isn’t attending the Superbowl

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 32 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, it was very clearly a critique of capitalism.

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 28 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

It's a critique of class differences, which is not limited to capitalism. North Korea is not a country I would call capitalistic, yet there are extreme class differences. Maybe that's why they don't want their people to watch Squid Game. This type of critique is also not limited to Squid Game, it can be seen in a lot of K-Dramas and korean films, Squid Game just shows it in a more brutal way.

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