Comment by smohare
If you know so little about a major, long term authoritarian dictatorship, consider this evidence you need to educate yourself.
If you know so little about a major, long term authoritarian dictatorship, consider this evidence you need to educate yourself.
Because "educate yourself" is quite possibly the most annoying, low effort thing you can say to someone whom you think should know something that they don't. Either share the information with them or don't engage at all; there's no need to be a dick about it.
Especially when the reality is everyone “knows” so much that isn’t true or that is true but they could never personally confirm it.
I am not 100% that North Korea exists. I’m pretty sure, but I can’t KNOW it without going there.
So while dictators are bad, the Kim’s are probably bad, sorry if I don’t go to the deep end repeating everything that someone else taught me.
You're right; there are limits to that excuse.
In the case of North Korea, my excuse is "I haven't put the time into it because it's a small country on the other end of the earth -- nuclear armed, but without effective delivery devices and massively outgunned. I wasn't prepared to give a lot more detail in the context of an interview that isn't about geopolitics. If you want me to research I can."
This was dead because?