Does this make anyone else want to puke?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/ma ... im-jong-un (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/03/dennis-rodman-kim-jong-un)
"If we just ignore that he's a horrible fellow, he's a great fellow!"
Judging from what Dennis considers 'a great look' or a 'great career-move', or a 'great publicity stunt'.... I won't put too much stock into his opinion.
Dennis Rodman is a dick. Nothing new here.
Quote from: "stromboli"Dennis Rodman is a dick. Nothing new here.
Well you know, we have sent a symphony over there a few years ago, but they berated Kim Jong Ill back then and insisted that if they do do a show in NK that they would not censor the music, and many members of the symphony criticized the tyranny and poverty while there, to the NK government's face.
I think the allowance of the west for western events to be done there are to expose North Koreans to a broader world despite their dictatorship. I am for that, but being chummy with a dictator like that, ugggg.
Many people criticized Colombia University for allowing Imadumbassjerk(Iran's PM) for giving a speech there, but if you actually watch the damned speech, the college president verbally bitch slapped him before he spoke and the audience laughed in his face several times throughout the speech.
Dennis Rodman: something, somewhere, went terribly wrong.
That dude's mind is fried thanks to excessive alcohol consumption, so no surprise there.
Rodman needs to realize those psychopaths over in NK are nice to him for the same reason they are nice to the ambassadors we have to send over whenever NK kidnaps a journalist for "espionage." You are famous and you have power. If you were like the millions of starving NK citizens with no money and no voice, he wouldn't give a shit about you.
He's not a diplomat or a statesman. He's just a basketball player. I don't think his opinion is important, but I don't condemn him for it.
Quote from: "Jason_Harvestdancer"He's not a diplomat or a statesman. He's just a basketball player. I don't think his opinion is important, but I don't condemn him for it.
Why not condemn him for it? Sure, it's not really going to sway a lot of people on North Korea "stellar" human rights records, or lack thereof, but a stupid claim is a stupid claim. Rodman is saying Un is a nice guy based on what is essentially egocentric bullshit.
I sure am glad his opinion doesn't make any difference.
If he can open dialog between obama and un I'm all for it. Un might be batshiat crazy But if we can talk him out of war it would be a good thing. If you have ever seen war really up close and personal you would know what I mean. I Myself I can see nothing to be gained from killing a lot of Koreans, they are people too.
Rodman doesn't really think Kim Jong Un is a great guy you bunch of naive mother fuckers - he maintains the illusion that he likes him because it's good for relations and helps to appease the little psychopath. Or did you miss the fact that if he says he doesn't like him in public, Kim will find out almost instantly? For fuck's sake, use your brains.
I'm having trouble attributing that level of intelligence to a man wearing a suit made of dollar bills.
Quote from: "Rejak"If he can open dialog between obama and un I'm all for it. Un might be batshiat crazy But if we can talk him out of war it would be a good thing.
Problem is talks always come with a price tag and the threatening moves are quick to return, especially when rewarded.
It would be great if they had a change of heart, though. NK has a heck of a lot to gain by rejoining the rest of the world, but its leadership puts its own needs ahead of that of its people. As such, this tense standoff is likely to continue.
I don't see any harm coming from this. People have condemned Rodman for feeding the NK propaganda machine... but that's a machine that's consistently fed and full. It won't do anything to further strengthen the propaganda because it's already saturated and constant.
One thing that may happen, though, is that the NK people will see images in their media if KJU having a good time with an American, so it could poke a hole in their delusion that all Americans are "evil".
Quote from: "Atheon"I don't see any harm coming from this. People have condemned Rodman for feeding the NK propaganda machine... but that's a machine that's consistently fed and full. It won't do anything to further strengthen the propaganda because it's already saturated and constant.
One thing that may happen, though, is that the NK people will see images in their media if KJU having a good time with an American, so it could poke a hole in their delusion that all Americans are "evil".
I don't know that they would be permitted to learn of it, or if they would be presented the meeting as a friendly thing. Editing for public consumption -- and secrecy -- is that regime's primary tool of governance.