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Originally Posted by realDonaldTrump
I have no idea what this is about. Is this something he saw on Fox News because it might as well be a different language to me.
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
Hot take: I have limited sympathy for these morons who go into extremely dangerous places and behave like idiots. It’s like that dude who wandered off to the Andaman Islands and disappeared. These people don’t deserve to wind up in prison camps or getting speared, but at some point when you play stupid games you win stupid prizes.
Also these companies that organize tours of NK should be sanctioned.
Hotter take: People shouldn't go to North Korea at all. Those companies that organize tours work for the government. Any money you give to them to organize tours goes towards financing a government that starves its own people, seeks to build a nuclear warhead, and is supposedly involved in a number of illicit trades.
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Originally Posted by feedthabeast
At this point how the **** do we even combat this? People in the Fox News bubble simply don't even see what's actually happening outside of it at all. They have a major blind spot because they're all riled up about they took er jerbs, they took er guns, reverse racism and whatever other racist conspiracy theories they've cooked up this week. It's grifters using identity politics to enrich themselves at the expense of those voting for them and as long as they're able to keep pumping out the bull**** this problem isn't going away.
Honestly, I can't even effectively communicate with deplorables about politics. They are literally talking about news stories that don't exist. They'll say something like, "Did you know..." and then what follows is an absolutely crazy news story that involves a bunch of names of people I never heard of. Of course it comes off of some site that was designed a bunch of Macedonian teenagers and is named liberalssuckcock.com.
When you can't even agree on a set of basic facts, constructive discourse of any kind becomes impossible.
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Originally Posted by synth_floyd
GQ did a story last year and they said that he likely tried to commit suicide, as the reporting that he was beaten and physically tortured was incorrect and in fact NK has historically gone out of its way to treat foreign prisoners well because they are valuable bargaining chips. But Trump and the US government used the reports of physical torture to put pressure on the regime and the grieving Warmbier family likely went with that excuse as well.
https://www.gq.com/story/otto-warmbi...age-true-story
How? Did he smash his head against a wall hoping to bleed out?
We may never know the true story. Perhaps some guard acted against orders and beat and tortured him anyway.
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Originally Posted by WichitaDM
Being scared of traveling any place "scarier" than Western Europe, cruises and Mexican beach resorts is one of Americans worst traits. It goes hand in hand with the actual worst trait, racism.
Good posts suzzer, looks like fun.
Yeah it's pretty ridiculous. Like I get being afraid of violent crime if you're travelling to a war zone or are walking through dangerous neighborhoods by yourself (why you'd do the latter on vacation is beyond me). Otherwise, it's ignorance.
Funny story: Most of my family lives in America and my mother and sisters wanted to meet me somewhere in Europe last summer. I brought up Paris as a possibility but my mother didn't want to go because there were too many Muslims and terror attacks. So she chose to meet me in London instead
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