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Is there a specific Trump policy you're referring to? It sounds like the reverse to me. The dems falsely painted him as alternately sympathising with / controlled by Russia. I may have missed it but haven't seen him do likewise.
Falsely?
South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it
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It says "most", not all.
This seems like evidence of an interesting new phenomenon to me, as the guidelines specify.
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#63Orwell being so right about governments using the constant threat of a virtual enemy has got to be one of the all time top on the money predictions ever. Up there with gravity and shit. I wish we could do something with this information, but alas, knowledge isnt power. Cersei Lannister: Power is power.
>Orwell being so right about governments using the constant threat of a virtual enemy has got to be one of the all time top on the money predictions ever. It's not a prediction when it's history. That has been going on at least as long as the Roman Empire, yet people are still surprised it's happening today. Modern regimes didn't invent these schemes, they're reusing tried and tested methods because they're known to…
And it’s always the others who are doing it. Our government would never. I mean, they did, but that was at least… dozens of years ago. And got forcibly declassified. They would never today. I guess. :-)
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#64I feel like I'd seen absolutely nothing about South Korea in the news for a long time, and then suddenly woke up to this, with zero context. Do folks have any recommendations for how to keep up with global news at a high level so that you're not completely clueless when something like this happens? Like I mean some sort of "international edition" of an aggregator like Google News, I guess.
I use Reuters to keep a non-US eye on the news. I didn't see this coming from there either, though...
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Martial law being declared in a developed democracy is sufficiently unusual that it works for me.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's nice. But it has nothing to do with what OP said.
I interpreted it as being Trumpian to perform a coup in an otherwise stable democracy. But YMMV on interpretation
>He's declaring his liberal opposition are sympathizers with North Korea. It sounds very Trump-ian, to be honest.
Where in that single sentence did you find a reference to a coup?
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#67Orwell being so right about governments using the constant threat of a virtual enemy has got to be one of the all time top on the money predictions ever. Up there with gravity and shit. I wish we could do something with this information, but alas, knowledge isnt power. Cersei Lannister: Power is power.
Orwell being so right about governments using the constant threat of a virtual enemy has got to be one of the all time top on the money predictions ever.
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#68Can someone ELI5 if this is a huge deal (like declaring martial law would be in the west), or if this is the equivalent of a "government shutdown" when similar budget impasses occur in the US?
Almost everyone in Korea is completely shocked, including most people who voted for him in the presedential elections. This is in a country where no one bats an eye even when sirens go off.
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#70I'm not familiar with the situation but reading the article, this sounds very similar to Netanyahu in Isreal, using the excuse of the opposition to stay in power.
From what I can tell Netanyahu was honestly elected. There is still reason to suspect he will be voted out in the next election (if he won the current war in 2 months he would be sure to win) and will peacefully transition power. Only time will tell of course, for now at least it still looks like someone in power that you may not like but honestly elected by his own people.