North Korea's Kim Jong Il is dead...

[AcesandEights]

I'm still upset that, as of last night, a "Goodbye Kim Jong Il" Elton John song has not yet surfaced.

[shootemindehead]

I'm still upset that, as of last night, a "Goodbye Kim Jong Il" Elton John song has not yet surfaced. Jesus...that actually works Aces!

[Mike70]

Mmmm...no, not harsh at all. The point I'm making is about the people doing the "weeping". You've millions that "Wept" for Diana, the Queen's mother, Michael Jackson and now, Kim Jong Il. My response to MZ's post was more to do with the issue of "indoctrination" of the "weepers", not the personality being "wept" over. North Koreans "weeping" over the death of their country's leader is no more a symbol of "indoctrination" than the same gobshites "weeping" over the death of "The King of Pop". weeping, crying, boohooing, etc. over the death of politicians and media "figures" is as pathetic as it can possibly get. there is nothing i can think of that is more asinine or childish. there is also nothing that indicates our culture's ridiculous f*cking fascination with "celebrity." cry for your family members and friends when they die because they loved you as well. cry if you are 8 and your dog gets run over by a car. don't cry for people who don't know you and, in all likelihood, couldn't have given a shit about you when they were alive. i have laughed my ass off at the dipshits in n. korea crying in the streets over this fat, weird little despot, just like i laughed at the morons who cried when michael jackson died. -- -------- Post added at 01:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:20 PM ---------- I'm still upset that, as of last night, a "Goodbye Kim Jong Il" Elton John song has not yet surfaced. goodbye kim jong il, maybe you blew up a nuke afterall

[Tricky]

i have laughed my ass off at the dipshits in n. korea crying in the streets over this fat, weird little despot, just like i laughed at the morons who cried when michael jackson died Thats one of the scenes that really stuck with me after I'd watched the film "Downfall", when Hitler is dead and all those SS soldiers start killing themselves, I suppose there was a lot of this in Berlin in 1945, but I guess with them it was fear of Russian retribution more than it was grief for Der Fuhrer...

[shootemindehead]

Germans committing suicide in 1945 had nothing whatsoever to do with Hitler. After the unjust way Germany was crucified in 1918, many felt that there really was nothing to expect but the worst. Ironically, the country ended up being propped up by their former Western enemies as a bulwark against Soviet Russia, so Morganthau's plan became the Marshall plan. The Communist devil that the West sold their souls to was no better than the Nazi devil the Red Army had just defeated.

[Legion2213]

Most Germans in the east tried to make their way to the allied controlled parts as well, they knew that the allies would treat them far better than the soviets.

[Mike70]

that sound you heard a couple of days ago was the giant sigh of relief from all of this little weirdos favorite japanese & korean actors and directors. talk about life being stranger than fiction.

[krisvds]

weeping, crying, boohooing, etc. over the death of politicians and media "figures" is as pathetic as it can possibly get. there is nothing i can think of that is more asinine or childish. there is also nothing that indicates our culture's ridiculous f*cking fascination with "celebrity." cry for your family members and friends when they die because they loved you as well. cry if you are 8 and your dog gets run over by a car. don't cry for people who don't know you and, in all likelihood, couldn't have given a shit about you when they were alive. i have laughed my ass off at the dipshits in n. korea crying in the streets over this fat, weird little despot, just like i laughed at the morons who cried when michael jackson died. -- -------- Post added at 01:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:20 PM ---------- goodbye kim jong il, maybe you blew up a nuke afterall I havent. I think most of those 'dipshits' have lived so long under this totalitarian regime that fear more than anything else has them throwing those fits once a camera shows up. That wasn't grief, that was fear. Sad more than anything. Fear is always repression's motor, in every dictatorship. BTW: if you look at the power the media have over in the neo-liberal west we have our own fair share of problems. Still, good riddance to that fat creep.