Comments on: A Real News Hole

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:46:24 +0000

Korea is one of the major places that people get sent to from here, an we have a large Korean population locally as a result. My Father and I both have ribbons for activities in Korea [his war hot, and mine cold], truly a war with no conclusion.

Yeah, it amazes me that people who work for a living can’t figure out that they are being screwed over by the top 1%. They just accept slogans about ‘job creators’ without actually looking at the facts. Bush gave them massive cuts, but no jobs appeared. The upper level is sucking up all of the extra money generated by increased productivity, while the people actually producing are running in place. The politicians blame everyone but those at fault.

If the ‘some of the people’ who you can ‘fool all the time’ is large enough, you can continue in office.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:06:20 +0000

20% of the population of South Korea is in Seoul, as is probably 1/3rd of their economy. There is no way of evacuating that city in any reasonable amount of time. The commander of the 2nd Infantry Division (our designated targets in South Korea) just lifted drinking restrictions on his troops (they’d been barred from drinking after some well-publicized brawls), probably so he can go get himself well and plastered without breaking his own regs ’cause that’s pretty much the only solution he has to that problem.

Based on the descriptions of North Korea’s nuclear tests, I’m not sure there’s much difference between North Korea’s nukes and a dirty bomb :twisted:. They fizzle more than they kaboom, though there’s still plenty enough kaboom to blow radioactive material everywhere.

The majority of the village is comprised of winners of the Lucky Sperm Club (for example, 80% of millionaires were born to millionaires), so of course they value luck more than they value hard work. They have experience with the former, and no experience with the latter :twisted:. The question is, why are so many of the American people willing to go along with this? It boggles the mind, so many people voting against their own interests…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:45:24 +0000

In reply to Badtux.

Gambling is given preference over working in the US tax system. Luck is more highly valued than effort by the Village. This is why so much money is spent on lotteries.

I figure that they would use a ‘dirty bomb’ rather than an actual nuclear device. The radioactivity is enough on it’s own to clear out Seoul, and, as you point out, they don’t even have to invade to be effective. They will still get turned into a glass parking lot, but I’m not sure that they care at this point.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:32:35 +0000

Tell me about that #!%$ self-employment tax. Have to make a quarterly payment to the Infernal Revenue Service shortly :(. It’s like I’m being penalized for working, while the hedge fund manager is being rewarded for… what? It defies all logic.

North Korea is a threat to South Korea. They don’t need to do much, Seoul is just ten miles from the border after all. All they have to do is wait for the winds to be blowing the right (wrong?) way and blow up one of their nasty little nukes upwind from Seoul but on their side of their border, and you’d have mass chaos. The hilarious part is that I don’t even know if that’d officially count as an act of war under international laws, since nobody has ever done anything like that before.

Thing is, if they take out Seoul, say goodbye to your iPhones and Androids, because every single one of the screens for those gadgets are made in Seoul, as are the processor chips for the iDevices of all ilk. For that matter pretty much every smartphone other than the iPhone are made in Seoul.