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South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection

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Re: South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection

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Post by dotcoma »

epistasis wrote: post #19
adev_ wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

I disagree: TikTok, Alibaba, Deepseek, WeChat...

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Post by Fnoord »

steveBK123 wrote: post #8

Likewise 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.

Andrew lost his title 'Prince' a while ago. At that point he wasn't a royalty in name anymore.

Took a long time though.

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Post by mcphage »

misnome wrote: post #13
steveBK123 wrote: post #8

Likewise 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.

> If he weren’t as out-of-favour I imagine nothing would have happened

But the trickling of Epstein news is why he's out-of-favor, isn't it?

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Post by popalchemist »

epistasis wrote: post #10
seattle_spring wrote: post #2

Everyone else thinking what I'm thinking?

I notice a reticence for people to speak plainly about things these days, because certain topics must be danced around at the edges in order for there to be any productive conversation. Canada's PM Carney spoke recently about the Power of the Powerless essay and the shared lie, when the Green Grocer puts up the "Workers of the world unite" sign. And I kind of fear that shared reticence to speak plainly is causing an…

It's because there has been a chilling effect because of the stochastic (and literal) terrorism of the state - YC's own Peter Theil uses Palantir services to pinpoint "domestic terrorists" (read: anyone who exercises their rights to protest or speaks dissent in real life or online) to ICE, who then extrajudicially disappear people.

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Post by yorwba »

carabiner wrote: post #16

It's pretty much certain this guy is going to commit suicide within 5 years, right?

It's more likely that he gets pardoned after a few years. President Park Geun-Hye only served less than 4 years of her combined 32-year prison sentence.

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Post by Waterluvian »

Also the King stepping aside as the commoners come to for his brother. Lots of recent examples demonstrating that none of these unprecedented moments are untouchable if you actually are a people who believe in the rule of law.
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