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damn i thought it was definitely going to be lupus this time
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The contrast between US and DPRK legal systems is telling. In the US a prisoner endures a lengthy term of drudgery and humiliation in their oppressor's mansion. A DPRK prisoner is compassionately induced into a coma to pass their sentence in blissful repose.
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speaking of deadly but treatable conditions that ought to have no place in contemporary modernity: "At least 17 children in eastern Syria have been paralyzed from a recently confirmed outbreak of polio, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, punctuating the health risks to a population ravaged by more than six years of war"
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tasteless braggart parades his good fortune in plain view of grieving family
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Did y'all see the RT documentary on the DPRK? It provides some pretty compelling evidence that the cult of personality around the Kim family is actually a fairly big deal. To me it just seems like a big weakness in the security of the DPRK. If Kim Jong Un gets killed, that would be a serious blow to morale.
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I'm sure it's less prominent throughout the country than it seems in the documentary, but I mean come on, the orphanage guy put chairs that Kim Jong Un sat on in a little museum under a framed map of the visit. I've seen enough George Bush country music tribute videos to know things like that exist in the US, but it's limited to a pretty small amount of people. I've never heard of a school teacher telling little kids that George Washington invented husking grain, but the teacher in the documentary taught his class that Kim Il Sung literally did this, and as much respect I have for Kim Il Sung as a revolutionary, I doubt that it was his work that brought husking to Korea.
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kim il sung invented husking grain
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smh, smdh
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toyotathon posted:

check your facebook



um, no

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Prove to me that the Kim's didn't invent husking grain, eat those rabbits.
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colddays posted:

I'm sure it's less prominent throughout the country than it seems in the documentary, but I mean come on, the orphanage guy put chairs that Kim Jong Un sat on in a little museum under a framed map of the visit. I've seen enough George Bush country music tribute videos to know things like that exist in the US, but it's limited to a pretty small amount of people. I've never heard of a school teacher telling little kids that George Washington invented husking grain, but the teacher in the documentary taught his class that Kim Il Sung literally did this, and as much respect I have for Kim Il Sung as a revolutionary, I doubt that it was his work that brought husking to Korea.


Al Gore invented the internet. Bill Clinton was lauded by the media as the first black president. George Bush had 84 billion propaganda events celebrating decisive, definitely final victory this time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Every single former US president has a hallowed museum in honor of them. There are news stories enshrining the house where Hillary, Our Once And Future Queen, grew up. Mount Rushmore exists.

How many movies have been made in honour of Saint Steve?

it never ends

Alternatively, read any given UK press article about the radiant transcendent glory of the Royal Family.

The world is full of farcical, rapt worship of authority figures. It's just a matter of perspective (racist, cold war paranoia perspective) that paints the DPRK as particularly exceptional in that regard, imho.

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Some guys made up the claim that al gore claimed to have invented the Internet to paint him as an egotistical hypernerd in order to make him lose an election. That means that the Kims Did invent husking grain actually.
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Mount Rushmore is a deliberate designed tourist trap that was originally intended to be like, pecos bill, crazy horse, wyatt erp, and borat. You can't just randomly pick some big face thing and say it's cult of personality. Also if you want to talk movies, Kim was featured prominently in the recent Hollywood comedy blockbuster "The Interview".
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It's giant faces chiseled into a mountain. It's goofy and weird. There are things about the Kim family that are also goofy and weird. There are things that are goofy and weird, I boldly claim.
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Yea... like the off the wall, uber sarcastic posting you see at the rhizzone.
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Professor: Otto Warmbier got ‘what he deserved’

WILMINGTON, Del. — People from all over the country are calling for a University of Delaware adjunct professor to be fired after she wrote on Facebook that Otto Warmbier "got exactly what he deserved" after being taken into custody by North Korea, falling into a coma and dying.

On her personal Facebook page, Kathy Dettwyler, an anthropology professor, wrote Tuesday that Warmbier was "typical of a mindset of a lot of the young, white, rich, clueless males who come into my classes."

"These are the same kids who cry about their grades because they didn't think they'd really have to read and study the material to get a good grade. ... His parents ultimately are to blame for his growing up thinking he could get away with whatever he wanted. Maybe in the US, where young, white, rich, clueless white males routinely get away with raping women. Not so much in North Korea. And of course, it's Ottos' parents who will pay the price for the rest of their lives."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/06/24/professor-otto-warmbier-got-what-he-deserved/425661001/#
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iawtp (i agree with that prof)
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i his now Otto COLDbier ha
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sadly, as an adjunct the'll probably fire her to avoid the trouble
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Synergy posted:

a University of Delaware adjunct professor



Stranger Making Minimum Wage Has Opinion, Is Technically At A College, Sort Of.

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i will most definitely hear about this from my uncle re: 'lefty incubator college campuses!'
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Online
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it's a bad take because the dprk didnt rule that he deserved to die
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also the way the adjunct argues it is veering into woke gator territory
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any take which sympathises with or mentions the grief of his parents is incorrect because they are gleefully doing a war dance on his grave
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ilmdge posted:

it's a bad take because the dprk didnt rule that he deserved to die




Yea the rudest correct take is well that sucks and its a shame but if we werent embargoing NK maybe they could have basic medicine in their prisons and people wouldn't go into botul comoas.

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The rudest incorrect take? Unfortunately I can't post it here due to swampmans illegal trampling of my rights.
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One September day in 1967 Kim Jong Il visited a chicken farm

Some chickens were playing in the recreation area while others were laying eggs in the coops, which were equipped with automatic doors.

An official reported that they were the first batch of fattening chickens that had been hatched from eggs sent to the farm by Kim Il Sung. Kim Jong Il, with a satisfactory eye on the plump chickens, praised the farm for having raised the chickens well. Then he looked more closely at one chicken before asking, ”Is that a fattener, too? That one pecking nervously at the feed.”

The official looked in the direction to which he was pointing and saw a chicken fussing over its feed. He asked if a laying chicken had got mixed in with the fatteners.

No one answered.

With a slight smile on his face, he said ”fatteners are calm and never fuss, but laying chickens are nervous by nature.”

Then he commented that it must be an excellent layer.

An official caught the chicken and examined it. Kim Jong Il was right.

Even the breeders, who observed and examined the chickens every day to prevent ones with different characteristics mixing, had failed to notice the chicken. However, Kim Jong Il had noticed the laying chicken among the thousands of similar looking fatteners at first glance.
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sheesh what a man. hes the kinda guy you wanna have a dprk beer with. hed probably jest something like I must be a fattener cuz I dont fuss. he always was a kidder..
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democratic people's republic of korea is better than the united states.
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#598
"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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kim jong il: *just going for it today* see that pig over there? it is actually a dragon. you can see by how gay it walks
peasant farmer at gunpoint: aha you are so right
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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kim stories are great because the Then Everybody Stood Up And Started Clapping parts are real
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

kim jong il: *just going for it today* see that pig over there? it is actually a dragon. you can see by how gay it walks
peasant farmer at gunpoint: aha you are so right



kim jong il died.