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How sad, that to look good the U.S. has to pick the most isolated, state controlled country and still needs to rely on story telling.
by moo 13y ago
How sad, that to look good the U.S. has to pick the most isolated, state controlled country and still needs to rely on story telling.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoErm, parent didn't originally compare US to DPRK. That honor goes to the top post. Anyways, which country would the poster want to live in: the DPRK, or the USA? We are lucky enough to vote with our feet (well, in the USA we can); some Europeans even...gasp...come to the great USA sh*thole to live/work and actually...really not kidding...enjoy it enough not to leave. We aren't even kidnapping them...they pay for the airfares themselves!
- moo 13y agoI was making a point about the U.S. per capita incarceration rate. Shown here on Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat.... It is dismal and countering with North Korea's injustice system being hypothetically worse doesn't make it better.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoSo America has its problems, we can list them out and maybe deal with them (or not) depending on how people feel about them (e.g. we have a functioning political system). DPRK has even bigger problems. Any fixes will be hard in coming, and will probably be painful when they do. Its a whole different "screwed up" from how the Europeans think the USA is "screwed up."