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

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

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Post by MrMcCall »

drdrek wrote: post #12

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We've been in the prologue to Version 3 since the end of WWII.

It's the nature of what we, the citizenry, have allowed to happen with our governments and multinational corps: destruction of the environment, subjugation of the people, and arming themselves to the teeth instead of prioritizing peace and prosperity for one and all.

Compassion is the only viable step forward, and its manifestation requires stopping the brutal oppressors of the world in their tracks, because unseating them from entrenched power gets messier by the day.

George Carlin's bit about his family's views on tolerance are gospel. While presented in a comic way, they are bang-on, and align with the truly foundational truth of the Paradox of Tolerance.

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

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Post by BadHumans »

bluGill wrote: post #70
BadHumans wrote: post #48

I'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.

I'm referring to the fact that Netanyahu is facing criminal charges and is using the war to delay his court hearings and simultaneously flatten Gaza.

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

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Post by lawn »

aurareturn wrote: post #67
bloomingkales wrote: post #32

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. 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. Who is that virtual enemy for the US?

* Immagrants

* Trans people

* "The enemy within" or "the deep state" (i.e. their political opponents)

* The "woke left"

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

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Post by nihzm »

llm_trw wrote: post #74
nihzm wrote: post #56

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The implication is that a rather large chunk of the technology sector - e.g. everything Samsung makes - is now under a very wide blanket of uncertainty.

I had not considered this. You (and others mentioning it) have a point. Though I would still have preferred a more substantial article as submission.

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

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Post by baybal2 »

Cumpiler69 wrote: post #43
bloomingkales wrote: post #32

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. 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…

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

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Post by [deleted] »

willvarfar wrote: post #76
aurareturn wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. Who is that virtual enemy for the US?

was russia, then terrorists; nowadays it is immigrants and 'the woke left'?

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

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Post by Isamu »

dsego wrote: post #16
chaoskanzlerin wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

a quick internet search reveals this refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

Interesting, I don't remember learning or hearing about this one. > While the South Korean government claimed 165 people were killed in the massacre, scholarship on the massacre today estimates 600 to 2,300 victims. Just for the sake of it, compared it to the widely known chinese tiananmen square massacre, albeit this one has widely varying figures on wikipedia: > The Chinese Red Cross had given a figure of 2,600 dea…

Here’s a more recent movie related to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taxi_Driver

It’s pretty good, you should be able to find it on streaming services.

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

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Post by llm_trw »

bluGill wrote: post #59
tokinonagare wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an “emergency martial law,” Tuesday accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament [...] Yoon — whose approval rating has dipped in recent months — Seems like a coup. > Yoon’s conservative People Power Party had been locked in an impasse with the liberal opposition Democratic Party over next year’s budget bill. Yeah, just like in France where the government is expec…

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…

>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.

The longest a French Republic has lasted is 70 years. The fifth republic is today 66 years old. The ordinary can turn into the extraordinary in an afternoon.

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Post by linuxlizard »

aurareturn wrote: post #67
bloomingkales wrote: post #32

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. 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. Who is that virtual enemy for the US?

California.

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

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Post by wruza »

dtquad wrote: post #60
cdiamand wrote: post #25

Can someone familiar with South Korean politics give us some context for what is happening here?

1. Very low trust in politicians after it was revealed former president Park Geun-hye was secretly a crypto-Christian cult member despite claiming to be atheist. 2. South Korea has a bizarre large-scale "gender war" going on that extents into mainstream society. Imagine the Western online MRA/redpill/incel vs. radfem circles but as core identities in national politics. For some reason a high-trust society has decided…

crypto-Christian cult

Had to look that up and wasn’t disappointed…

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