This is how justice actually works. Meanwhile, the US is comparable to a banana republic where you can count on lying and injustice, also a mockery of real justice, being the things that work.
South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection
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#13Likewise fascinating seeing UK treat its royalty like regular people (Andrew arrested) while the US treats our oligarchs like royalty. Royalty in name vs royalty in practice.
I mean Andrew is an extreme case. If he weren’t as out-of-favour I imagine nothing would have happened, and this has been _entirely_ forced by external information.
I assume that otherwise they would have less of an issue. It’s not like he married someone slight off-white, that would be real grounds for excommunication.
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#14One of the bedrocks of a startup economy is that the rule of law applies equally to the powerful and to the less powerful. We wouldn't have Apple, Netflix, or so many other Bay Area giants without the equal application of law. I applaud South Korea for pursuing this conviction and achieving a suitable penalty for the breakdown of law at the highest levels. It's quite admirable, as admirable as the UK charging the Kin…
> One of the bedrocks of a startup economy is that the rule of law applies equally to the powerful and to the less powerful.
That has nothing to do with startup and economy. Equality in front of the law is one of the most basic property of any decent democracy.
It is even the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
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#15South Korea is a very young democracy with fresh memories of what it was like under dictatorships. The people very much understand the price it took to get to that point and is not complacent in stomping out wannabe autocrats.
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#16It's pretty much certain this guy is going to commit suicide within 5 years, right?
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#17One of the bedrocks of a startup economy is that the rule of law applies equally to the powerful and to the less powerful. We wouldn't have Apple, Netflix, or so many other Bay Area giants without the equal application of law. I applaud South Korea for pursuing this conviction and achieving a suitable penalty for the breakdown of law at the highest levels. It's quite admirable, as admirable as the UK charging the Kin…
> One of the bedrocks of a startup economy is that the rule of law applies equally to the powerful and to the less powerful. That has nothing to do with startup and economy. Equality in front of the law is one of the most basic property of any decent democracy. It is even the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
Not to mention that these former startups are now the Navy, and they are almost all squarely on the side of the person who tried to overthrow democracy.
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#18This is how justice actually works. Meanwhile, the US is comparable to a banana republic where you can count on lying and injustice, also a mockery of real justice, being the things that work.
Depends on what you mean by justice. In the US, the law is now merely a tool used to give privileges to the in-group at the cost of the out-group. For the in-group it protects them from harm but never constrains their actions. For the out-group the law never protects them from harm, but constrains them.
In the US, federal prosecutions are ordered by the in-group via public social media posts, rather than by professionals dedicated to the law deciding if there's enough evidence to support a case. Currently, federal prosecutions will never be pursued against the in-group, no matter the evidence.
I'd like the US to return to it's prior stance on what the law means and how it can be used.
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#19One of the bedrocks of a startup economy is that the rule of law applies equally to the powerful and to the less powerful. We wouldn't have Apple, Netflix, or so many other Bay Area giants without the equal application of law. I applaud South Korea for pursuing this conviction and achieving a suitable penalty for the breakdown of law at the highest levels. It's quite admirable, as admirable as the UK charging the Kin…
> One of the bedrocks of a startup economy is that the rule of law applies equally to the powerful and to the less powerful. That has nothing to do with startup and economy. Equality in front of the law is one of the most basic property of any decent democracy. It is even the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
It has a lot to do with both! HN is largely interested in startup economies, so I focussed on that in my comment.
I would contend that a startup economy can not exist without decent democracy. It's not an either/or as you frame it.
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#20Everyone else thinking what I'm thinking?
Aiming for the bushes?