All I will say is, good riddance to a true monster and may he rot in hell.
Excellent . . . That gets drachillix out of the way while my plans for global domination unfold . . . Wait 'til he finds out NK’s nukes can only be delivered by horse-drawn wagon . . .
What until you discover my nitrous oxide modification for horses is finally complete!
I am on record as saying that dictators are bad.
As bold and cutting edge as ever.
This is kind of not germane, but I thought I read somewhere that the version of Korean spoken in the North vs. the South is actually very different. That refugees have found that their accents are very distinctive and strange and that they are speaking an archaic dialect that hasn’t been used in the South since earlier in the 20th century. They don’t have the same slang, the same expressions borrowed from other languages, etc. I guess while they’re technologically stuck in the 1950s, their language has stagnated due to isolation as well. Sort of like what happened to French in France vs. Quebec. Kind of interesting.
How many people does someone have to murder before losing your approval?
Watching the number of people bawling their eyes out, and I mean genuinely bawling their eyes out, makes me fearful for humanity’s future. Just imagine if only Gaddafi had consulted with him to learn how to successfully run a brutal dictatorship and have the people love you for it in the 21st century. God! its scary.
Well, it depends. Jesus, as God, drowned a world and Qin loves that dude.
That seems kinda strong. I bet some dictators are quite huggable.
Too soon to mingle levity with Hitler & Pol Pot. Darth Vader did his thing a long, long time ago.
Well yea, there’s the old saying that the best form of government is a benevolent dictator. While I hate to admit it, it may be true.
In no way, shape or form, would I put Kim Shit Il, or any of his family, in that category.
Arabs aren’t like Koreans. They haven’t been taught to hate everybody who is the same pure blood as them. Of course they upset. Better a crazy Korean ruler than a foreign power who can actually teach you to read.
That’s not an old saying, that’s bullshit. Who the hell says that?
^ Plato is pretty old.
I do.
A wise, benevolent leader who has his or her subjects’ lives and welfare in mind can do amazing things democracy could never achieve. Things don’t have to be done by committee, the monarch simply orders that a thing be done. It’s all based on the will of the person at the top, and if that person is good, the nation will be good.
The trick, of course, is guaranteeing that benevolence. Democracy is preferable because it prevents the worst types of governments, not because it leads to the best. I’d rather risk going with a government that’s always mediocre rather than one that could be incredibly awesome or incredibly evil.
F’eh, whippersnapper.
Fucker, you stole my joke!
Thanks. Couldn’t have said it better. The statement isn’t an indictment of democracy only a comment on it’s inefficiency. We only have to look at today’s news in the USA to realize that.
Under a benevolent dictator we would be on the path the fixing the problems. That being said, I am not willing to trust my future to a benevolent dictator because I also believe the statement is true that “Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts.” Therefore, I’ll choose the inefficiency of a more democratic government.
But “wise” is never “omniscient” and any absolute ruler labors under what Robert Anton Wilson calls “the burden of nescience,” i.e., he can never be sure what’s going on because when you’re that powerful nobody dares to tell you honestly. A benevolent dictator can do horrible damage just by being honestly mistaken about what’s good for his people.