A black marine told me that before he hazed the shit out of our section.
US student is sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea for trying to steal a political banner
Ya’ll downvoting, but you know you’d smash
rather its the fact that the only novelty about going to north korea is the fact that its disenfranchised, destitute and corrupt if your in to that sort of thing.
theres no way that you couldnt have any prior knowledge before going over there about the conditions/situation going on considering to view such a spectacle, possibly for research is the entirety of the reason that you would go over there
feel sorry for the guy but lets not act like dude was ignorant of where he was at
going there is a crapshoot i owuld only be near there to make a transfer to the next spot
in and out
There’s no transfers within North Korea. The only communist countries that I know of that have transfer points are like China, Vietnam, and MAYYYYYBE Laos?
(I’m not sure what’s more confusing: that this thread is still going despite the relative lack of updates on this story or that this thread is now somehow about race.)
For now, I’ll refrain from closing the thread even though it would probably be for the best, especially since there’s already an another, more general North Korea thread. Right now it’s like looking at the textual version of a flaming train-wreck.
Oh, and in case you ever get unbanned, @pedoviejo, I’m aware that was the intention of your comparison. Your intention being that still does nothing to make the comparison itself any less of a false equivalence, however, purely because, again, you have to choose to go North Korea unless you’re born there, you have no choice over which race you’re born or how the cops react to it. To say nothing of the other problems with that comparison that I pointed out, like the fact that short of actually legitimately (or, unfortunately, just seemingly too much of the time) threatening the cops with your behavior, under law they aren’t (and shouldn’t be) allowed to kill you; expecting the same (or any) mercy of North Korea is straight up stupid. So the problem is less the lack of empathy and more that the North Korea issue lacks a double standard because you should well know to expect nothing but cruelty from them (unlike, supposedly, the police) rather than for there to be police apologist when the police egregiously fuck up or criminal apologist when the person that died was legitimately, actually in the wrong.
Oh, hey. FOX News got something right for once. Then again, even a broken clock is right twice a day (unless it’s digital or in army time, then fuck you stock quote I guess). I suppose leaving this thread open would perhaps show if the same can apply to AlphaCharlie, but somehow I doubt it given he can’t grasp the readily repeated simple fact that short of being legitimately kidnapped or born in North Korea, in which case no one here would be laughing at the (many, many) victim(s), you have to choose to be stupid enough to go North Korea.
You clearly underestimate how stupid (American) people are or at least can be. I don’t blame you given you don’t live here and your tendency towards optimism, but in a word, “yes.” As with so many bad things, too many people believe it will never happen to them…until it does, and by then it’s often too late. If anything, then I wouldn’t be surprised if this kid’s death made some people more curious and want to go there even more.
I would say let them, but Congress clearly has its priorities in order and we need to protect our not-at-all-too-large population of American idiots.
I’m not sure about all that, and I say this as someone who expects the worst of people. I just think that non-whites–ha at singling out black people, FOX News–and even the majority of (poor) whites don’t care because we all have far more personal issues to deal with back home as opposed to feeling especially significant sympathy for some idiot who, again, did it to himself when his effective suicide had at least two easily avoidable steps to avoid death.
It’s not like I’m don’t understand feeling sympathy (for his parents) or think he “deserved” to die for his petty crime. I just don’t think he personally deserves sympathy for meeting a completely foreseeable bad end that could have been entirely avoided so extremely easily even if the punishment was of course draconian.
then you really have zero reason to be there lol unless you are a reporter
there is a transfer spot in s.korea right by the DMZ. Incheon airport. Took that twice during my trip to Vietnam.
Did you get any good kills?
God I hope so. I’m willing to buy one-way tickets for some ppl that post here.
You can’t even afford bus fare how you going to buy plane tickets?
Hey guys, it’s time to play find the pedestrian!!!
Some new details on Otto:
tl;dr There’s evidence that he wasn’t tortured physically and that his death was brought on by an attempted suicide.
they never mentioned possibility of waterboarding which sounds reasonable considering it was oxygen deprivation that put him in that state