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Re: Politics

Postby south carmain » Fri May 05, 2017 4:44 am

St. Elmo's Fire wrote: So it appears NK is now threatening China with "grave consequences" if they don't stop talking about him! :lol:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 16781.html

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. If any of this is in any way true and King Bong Wok actually did threaten China, then he must be genuinely stupid. Just need to wait for him to threaten Putin too then he can have pretty much the whole world against him! :lol:

I guess he assumes since China can't allow a pro-American unification of the Korean peninsula then his buffer zone is untouchable. This is an incredibly interesting turn of events though as I am very interested in seeing how China will handle this. On one hand they definitely can't leave it to the Americans and south Koreans if they want to be the next superpower, on the other, North Korea could easily become their Afghanistan or Vietnam (which China already lost a war to) if they chose to directly invade it.
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Re: Politics

Postby St. Elmo's Fire » Fri May 05, 2017 12:32 pm

Would the NK people be as motivated as the Afghans and Vietnamese were though? I mean I'm sure his brainwashing is pretty intense, and the fear of their families getting slaughtered if a NK soldier dared surrender to a Chinese or American army looming over them is pretty real, but wouldn't a lot of them actually WANT him taken out?
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Re: Politics

Postby south carmain » Fri May 05, 2017 2:10 pm

St. Elmo's Fire wrote: Would the NK people be as motivated as the Afghans and Vietnamese were though? I mean I'm sure his brainwashing is pretty intense, and the fear of their families getting slaughtered if a NK soldier dared surrender to a Chinese or American army looming over them is pretty real, but wouldn't a lot of them actually WANT him taken out?

I can't really give a certain answer to that but from what I gathered from defectors is that the brainwashing runs so deep that I wouldn't be surprised if the majority supported him in the event of a war.
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Re: Politics

Postby St. Elmo's Fire » Fri May 05, 2017 5:42 pm

Damn.

It'd be pretty awesome to actually BE a dictator though, wouldn't it?
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Re: Politics

Postby Sokora » Sat May 06, 2017 2:27 am

St. Elmo's Fire wrote: Damn.

It'd be pretty awesome to actually BE a dictator though, wouldn't it?


Genocide, lol
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Re: Politics

Postby St. Elmo's Fire » Sat May 06, 2017 5:45 am

Well not so much that part, I meant just having absolute power over everything!
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Re: Politics

Postby south carmain » Sat May 06, 2017 10:53 am

St. Elmo's Fire wrote: Well not so much that part, I meant just having absolute power over everything!

You shouldn't bash something until you've tried it.

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Re: Politics

Postby Sokora » Sat May 06, 2017 8:06 pm

St. Elmo's Fire wrote: Well not so much that part, I meant just having absolute power over everything!


Not sure if being a dictator is all that and a bag of chips tbh. I have firm socialist ideals.

Are you a Conservative?

Ha. Why am I asking? I already know.
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Re: Politics

Postby St. Elmo's Fire » Sun May 07, 2017 6:11 am

I'm don't hate tories as much as most people do, but I'm definitely not "fans" of them either. I voted SNP so that's probably closer to "socialist" than most other parties.
You can be a socialist dictator too. Colonel Gadaffi was one! In a lot of ways this list makes it sound like their society had a better way of doing things than plenty of capitalist Western countries!

http://www.anonews.co/gaddafi-under-libya-facts/
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Re: Politics

Postby south carmain » Sun May 07, 2017 12:23 pm

St. Elmo's Fire wrote: I'm don't hate tories as much as most people do, but I'm definitely not "fans" of them either. I voted SNP so that's probably closer to "socialist" than most other parties.
You can be a socialist dictator too. Colonel Gadaffi was one! In a lot of ways this list makes it sound like their society had a better way of doing things than plenty of capitalist Western countries!

http://www.anonews.co/gaddafi-under-libya-facts/

I wouldn't take that article too seriously as it's sources are hardly scholarly. That being said if he was implying being socialist means you can't be authoritarian then he's either trolling or incredibly uninformed.
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Re: Politics

Postby killthesagabeforeitkillsu » Mon May 08, 2017 9:52 am

It's not a good decision to be posting about politics on social media... we don't need a Dina moment.
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Re: Politics

Postby InsanityIsCrazy » Thu May 11, 2017 4:21 pm

Tiny violins played for Comey as he learned he was fired from the tee vee. That's gotta be harsh.
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Re: Politics

Postby Henry Spencer » Sun Jun 25, 2017 5:17 pm

Ooooh Jeremy Corrrrrbyn. Jeremy Coooorbyn. Ooooh Jeremy Cooorbyn.
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Re: Politics

Postby south carmain » Mon Jun 26, 2017 3:03 am

Henry Spencer wrote: Ooooh Jeremy Corrrrrbyn. Jeremy Coooorbyn. Ooooh Jeremy Cooorbyn.

meredy poorbin?
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Re: Politics

Postby MiTT3NZ » Mon Jun 26, 2017 11:01 am

Jeremy Corbyn looks how I imagine Frankie Boyle's uncle does. Y'know the one who had the box with the dead monkey in it?
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