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Whenever one of these "inside NK" articles show up, I am more impressed by the arrogance and the ignorance of the commenters than I am by the stories. "OMG the
by humanspecies 14y ago
Whenever one of these "inside NK" articles show up, I am more impressed by the arrogance and the ignorance of the commenters than I am by the stories.
"OMG they're brainwashed, do we morally have an obligation to intervene" says one smug commenter.
Well, my friend, look at Times Square. What is it? It's a fucking AD clusterfuck. Companies, ads, fake artificial and as plastic as it gets. And yet, no ads on NK's streets... That is so refreshing to me.
What is so inviting about capitalism? Go to Reddit and read the first page: booze, artificial and superficial crap and social problems all over the place. People have iphones and fancy cars but they're socially sick, alone... It may be terrible in NK, but who are you to be criticizing them? Just because you have iphones and an Audi in your garage, what we're seeing today is an ever more lonely society whose only escapes are booze, pot and superficial pleasures like buying something and showing a photo of it online.
These comments here...the top one says "it's all fake". WOW good thing it's not as real as silicon tits or mcdonalds sandwich photos! Those are real! And your TV ads, and your promissed dream, those are all real too! Nevermind that you bailed out banks who robbed you and you are now getting sued by those banks! THAT is reality folks, poor North Koreans who live under a terrible fake regime that fools all of them!
How about those North Korean jails eh? Horrible gulags! Nevermind that the world's largest carcerary population is in the United States of America. And the death penalty? It must be terrible to live under a regime that straps people to machines that kill them in barbaric ways? Oh my God, NK is the evil empire!
How about those children faking studies?? That's awful! It's better to live in a country where children don't even fake it! Crack, pot and god awful music prevail in our schools, our children are grabbing machine guns to kill each other and you find it funny to mock those poor North Koreans!
I feel sick to my stomach to see where our society is and how stupid and ignorant and brainwashed YOU are to accept the immoral, indecent and corrupt state YOU live under and then go on to criticize other countries whose people are just as honest and decent as you. Their regime is failed and so is ours - you are no better than them, never forget that. You have an iphone, they don't, that is all you're better at.
- nshepperd 14y ago> You have an iphone, they don't Don't forget the food, internet, health care, electricity, education, and freedom of speech. What have the romans ever done for us, eh?
- djhworld 14y agoNo one is better than anyone else, but the western world has a key critical freedom that the people of North Korea don't have; freedom of speech. People have a problem with the tight grip the generational dictatorship has had over the country for years, not its people who live under it
- realo 14y agoYou are right, the Western World is not the rosy place it seems to be. However, please do not ever forget that if you wrote your comment as a resident of NK, publicly criticizing the Order like that, you, your kids and _their_ descendants would be in a goulag ... forever. I enjoyed very much reading your comment. Thank you.
- raverbashing 14y agoThen please go and live in NK then Or Cuba, it's nearer Please ignore all those that are trying to escape these two places, I'm sure they're all idiots.