So can the US Congress, or the Politburo.
But a ruler or ruling-body who is not absolute is not burdened with nescience. Everybody gives you their POV, the challenge is filtering out the noise.
Do you really think that the majority of the U.S. Congress is listening to anything that is not in their personal political interest and doesn’t have an underlying political agenda? It’s gotten to the point where party politics and party money rules all. An individual conscience is worth almost nothing.
After what we have seen from the fall of communism, do you really think that those guys were acting in the best interest of the “people” or were they protecting their own cushy existence while the “people” were suffering because of their misguided dogma?
That’s very germane, actually - nationality is often defined by language. If the split becomes permanent, South and North Korea may go the way of Spain and Portugal, Russia and Belarus or Germany and the Netherlands.
1 in 2 Americans are now poor or low income
50%?
And don’t contemplate dissent otherwise the Patriot Act will get you.
As to their GENUINELY bawling their eyes out, I think that their behaviour is more akin to being the person who didn’t stop clapping first after one of Stalins speeches.
Be seen to not be OTT grieving, and you won’t be around to not grieve about anything in the near future.
That said, I for one welcome our new hereditary communist overlord.
Yes, the Korean spoke up North sounds pretty quaint to South Koreans, but we can still understand each other. I think North Koreans would have more difficulty understanding us rather than vice versa, because while their Korean is a bit weird it’s still Korean. But South Koreans use a lot of foreign words. For example, we use the English term “ice cream”, but North Koreans call it something that would translate to “ice candy” (I think, or something of that nature).
The NK policy of complete national autarchy (juche) extends to vocabulary too?
C’mon, even the French try to battle the tide of loan words.
The correct quote is “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
Those North Koreans who collapsed in tears on learning of the death of their dear Leader tend to be morons in my view.
God is dead. Whaddaya expect?
I’ve read on this board, forget whose post, that NK is perhaps the only totalitarian state in modern times where there is literally no culture outside the State. The Leader is the only God the majority have ever known or worshipped. Of course they’re sincerely broken up, how could they not be?
I disagree. Some Hitler reaction videos are awesome. So’s the World’s Funniest Joke sketch.
I simply assume that the ostentatious mourning is fakery for the purpose of survival - that the secret police are taking notes and if you don’t publicly “mourn”, you will be given rather more personal reason to do so privately.
I was referring to mainstream humor. I would have been giggling at “Concentrated Orange Jews” by 1950. But then, I’m a bit of a dick, according to some. Ok, many.
How is it moronic to shed tears in public to avoid getting yourself, your parents, your brothers, your sisters, and your children killed for not shedding tears in public?