South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it

Post by Mordisquitos » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 10:11 PM UTC

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It was France avoiding the Spanish Civil war.

The... secret Spanish Civil War that happened in 1958?

Post by anigbrowl » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 10:13 PM UTC

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The paradox is; Society should benefit everyone equally. If it doesn't, then the ones who are not benefiting have a social responsibility to adjust it until it does. By hook or by crook, for better or worse. Equity is usually pretty difficult to swallow for those who are benefiting inequitably. But the thing is, if it's not working for everyone, it isn't working at all and it should probably be broken the rest of the…

This is presumptively assuming that being a homemaker is an objectively “worse” position. I think a lot of women would disagree with that position, possibly the majority. Equity cannot mean that everyone works in an office, it should also mean that women that want to stay at home should be able to without being forced into a corporate world by the economy/circumstances.

Post by rrr_oh_man » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 10:23 PM UTC

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They might have meant writing :-) instead of :), while I think you’re talking about

Yeah specifically with that hyphen nose. I have like three friends who all do that and they all meet that description it's hilarious

Post by 4gotunameagain » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 10:26 PM UTC

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I recently found Rest of World and I like it, they seem to be high quality: https://restofworld.org/

What a weird name: "rest of the world". I live in the "rest of the world" and never thought of myself like that.

    About our name

    Why “Rest of World”? It’s a corporate catchall term used in the West to designate “everyone else.” Companies use it to lump together people and markets outside wealthy Western countries. We like the term because it encapsulates the problems we fight head-on: a casual disregard for billions of people, and a Western-centric worldview that leaves an unthinkable number of insights, opportunities, and nuances out of the global conversation.

Post by ouraf » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 10:41 PM UTC

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Not just link in France. France is in the midst of a government fall, but this is something built into how they do democracy and so a new one is expected to form in a few months on the backs of their democratic process. This is instead a rejection of the democratic process. I don't know enough about SK's internals to say if the democratic process is already dead because of corruption (as the leader claims), or if the…

SK's last presidential election in 2022 was very, very close (48.5-47.3), the closest in South Korean history. Legislative elections take place at the midpoint between presidential elections, and the opposition kept their majority in 2024, so there was hardly a mandate, if anything the legislative elections indicated a rebuke. Yoon Suk Yeol is the one of the most unpopular democratic heads of state with 19% approval…