Kim Jong-un

[Cow Poke]

... But what DO did was just ridiculous. He even pulled my sentences apart.

A) I'm guessing he does it to pull your chain
2) Cause it works.

[Cow Poke]

I...



...would...



...never...



...do...



...that!

Go to bed, you're getting silly!

[Mountain Man]

That's not a "kiddy game", that is the way that reply functions are designed to work on the Internet. I have no idea why you get hung up over that.

In my mind, it's like trying to have a conversation with someone who interrupts you after you every sentence. I personally find arguments broken up in that fashion hard to follow, and it just starts to look like noise.

As for the topic, I agree with the sentiments that Kim would not allow rumors of his demise to gain traction if he could help it, which suggests very strongly that he can't help it because he's either dead, or very close to it. That is unless there's some advantage to him to allow the rumors to circulate, but I can't imagine what that advantage would be. So if he is dead, I think the only certainty is that it won't be a peaceful transfer of power.

[carpedm9587]

Go to bed, you're getting silly!

Getting...?

[seanD]

A) I'm guessing he does it to pull your chain
2) Cause it works.

It only works once, because that person will get no response the second time.

[Cow Poke]

Getting...?

Drop the y and add ier.

[Cow Poke]

In my mind, it's like trying to have a conversation with someone who interrupts you after you every sentence. I personally find arguments broken up in that fashion hard to follow, and it just starts to look like noise.

As for the topic, I agree with the sentiments that Kim would not allow rumors of his demise to gain traction if he could help it, which suggests very strongly that he can't help it because he's either dead, or very close to it. That is unless there's some advantage to him to allow the rumors to circulate, but I can't imagine what that advantage would be. So if he is dead, I think the only certainty is that it won't be a peaceful transfer of power.

And that would be the $64,000 question - what possible advantage could there be to Kim allowing this to continue? Now, had all this taken place just before EASTER.....

[Mountain Man]

And that would be the $64,000 question - what possible advantage could there be to Kim allowing this to continue? Now, had all this taken place just before EASTER.....

Perhaps it's the sort of political intrigue you read about in books like Dune: allow your enemies to think you're dead in order to draw them out. But is Kim really that shrewd? His style was more if he even so much as suspected someone, he would have their entire family killed.

[DivineOb]

It's not like we're having informal discussions. It's a debate section essentially. You don't talk over each in formal debates. That's childish. I can sort of see it's function if it's a large block of text, sort of like how you did it (though even that irks the heck out of me if I haven't done it to your post, and my post was just three sentences!). If you're incapable of forming coherent ideas, points, rebuttals into a succinct block of text because you lack literary skill, then I guess you have no choice. But what DO did was just ridiculous. He even pulled my sentences apart.

Ok, I'll try not to pull your stuff apart like that next time.

Dear lord.

[Cow Poke]

Perhaps it's the sort of political intrigue you read about in books like Dune: allow your enemies to think you're dead in order to draw them out. But is Kim really that shrewd? His style was more if he even so much as suspected someone, he would have their entire family killed.

Yeah, I can't imagine ANY scenario in which he would allow his own people to believe he were sick or dead, if he were not sick or dead.

[DesertBerean]

Yeah, I can't imagine ANY scenario in which he would allow his own people to believe he were sick or dead, if he were not sick or dead.

Or for his supporters to allow the same. N Korea, far as I can tell, is still a key nation between US and China.

[QuantaFille]

I get that complaint from several fronts. I frankly have never understood the objection. When someone asks a question or makes a point, I find it clear to place the response close to the question or point to which it relates.

I agree. It makes the reply so much easier to follow. Sometimes when people reply point by point to a large post and they don't break it up, it gets confusing especially if they only respond to a few points and not all of them.

[QuantaFille]

It's kinda like the argument that the Jews stole the body of Jesus --- if that were true, all they had to do was parade the body through the streets to show He was dead.

All NK needs to do is show the little fella with the crazy haircut doing something "alive".

I wondered what on Earth you were on about, and then I remembered that the thread topic has nothing to do with the way people reply to each other on the internet.

[carpedm9587]

And that would be the $64,000 question - what possible advantage could there be to Kim allowing this to continue? Now, had all this taken place just before EASTER.....

[carpedm9587]

Yeah, I can't imagine ANY scenario in which he would allow his own people to believe he were sick or dead, if he were not sick or dead.

Maybe he wants to hike the Tallahassee trail...