Already, we can see where this is going. But let me ask you this, Mr. Yi. Is there a particular reason why your liberators (no quotation marks necessary) should have held Koreans in "special favor" at the end of the war? How many Koreans were slugging in out in the South Pacific? Oh, let me rephrase that - how many Koreans not wearing Japanese military uniforms were slugging it out in the South Pacific? I know this will piss off a great many, but to be blunt, for a nation of collaborators, Korea's lucky it got any "gifts" at all.
Mr. Yi, going overboard in blaming all the problems on outsiders and the other guy with his slanted opinion both look like deviating from a realistic viewpoint to me.
The basic tone of the original article(not the fisking) appears to be something along the lines of 'The Commies utopia-ized North Korea, but the Americans shafted the South!'
Yes, the South got shafted. This is why they've been relegated to drinking Starbucks coffee while railing at America, rather than eating human flesh and praying for survival, like their Northern counterparts.
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Damn, I could practically hear the sound of this guy bitch-slapping the author of this piece.
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Mr. Yi wrote:North Korea still maintains its hereditary system of rule without any dissent.
I believe someone has a poor contact with reality. I mean, is he praising NK's system? "Without any dissent"? OMFG!!!!!
On the contrary. There can be no dissent when all the dissenters are dead. Of course, in North Korea, being alive means subsisting on tree-bark tortillas stuffed with grass and human meat, so it's questionable whether or not the government has done the dissenters any greater a disservice than it has to the rest of its people.
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RedImperator wrote:
On the contrary. There can be no dissent when all the dissenters are dead. Of course, in North Korea, being alive means subsisting on tree-bark tortillas stuffed with grass and human meat, so it's questionable whether or not the government has done the dissenters any greater a disservice than it has to the rest of its people.
Now, now, Comrade, in spring and fall the peasants can enjoy the bounty of hunting migrating birds with sticks and nets!
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HemlockGrey wrote:You get sticks, nets, and migratory birds? I think the Great Leaders are being a little uneven in their Glorious Resource Distribution plan.
If you don't catch any birds, you can eat the sticks.
Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves…We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.--Ada Louise Huxtable, "Farewell to Penn Station", New York Times editorial, 30 October 1963 X-Ray Blues
HemlockGrey wrote:If you find a stick, can I have it?
I'll trade for one of your children, some cloves, and cooking sherry.
Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves…We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.--Ada Louise Huxtable, "Farewell to Penn Station", New York Times editorial, 30 October 1963 X-Ray Blues
The Duchess of Zeon wrote: That's really outrageous! Especially if the child is several years old. Give him a bundle of wood, at least, and with bark!
Nah, the kids likely to be all gristle, so you the bark isn't worth it.
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HemlockGrey wrote:Bark? Hell, I'd settle for a couple of leaves.
Leaves? LEAVES?!? What kind of decadant capitalist pigdog are you?! You know full well the leaves are necessary to feed our glorious army that even now is ready to smash its way through the fat, soft enemies of the Great Leader.
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Forgive me! I shall go out and sacrifice an entire clod of dirt to the Great Leader! Perhaps I shall go hungry, but it is better to be hungry than set on fire and ripped apart by dogs!
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"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
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HemlockGrey wrote:Forgive me! I shall go out and sacrifice an entire clod of dirt to the Great Leader! Perhaps I shall go hungry, but it is better to be hungry than set on fire and ripped apart by dogs!
That's better; however, I see you have been hoarding dirt clods. Perhaps a friendly little chat with the Great Leader's agents of truth will reveal more interesting things. Perhaps you're one of the thieves who has been stealing gravel from the roads to make soup.
Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves…We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.--Ada Louise Huxtable, "Farewell to Penn Station", New York Times editorial, 30 October 1963 X-Ray Blues
HemlockGrey wrote:No! No gravel! Just a little fleck of sand! Just one! I needed to complete my statue of the Great Leader!
Oh. Well, okay. In that case, we'll just shoot you for making us waste our time asking you threatening questions.
Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves…We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.--Ada Louise Huxtable, "Farewell to Penn Station", New York Times editorial, 30 October 1963 X-Ray Blues
