Good.
Honestly, I have a ton of respect for South Korea, especially after seeing how swiftly and decisively they handled their treasonous president.
(please take me, S. K.)
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American defense investors collectively face palm
Surely you mean war investors.
And thats not even sarcastic, I'm simply echoing to the rebranding of ministry of defense to ministry of war. (But that is sarcasm)
Bro, if you're trying to get a republicans you can stay rent free at my house anytime.
Better education can fix the far-right movement/cult, or it would be a great step in dissolving it at least...
Being conservative and/or wanting to have a national identity is fine but don't take it to the extremes, excluding or oppressing others based on origin, religion, sexual orientation, etc. That comes at the expense of fundamental rights and becomes dangerous. Education can fix that.
Well the far right wants to kill everyone that’s not white, so maybe they should be purged? Fascists will eventually kill everyone that’s not a fascist, so you kinda have to get them before they get you
Right?! Don't get me wrong, SK has some PROBLEMS, but good for their president
Y’all read the thing?
Subsequently, Lee issued an arrest warrant for a pastor linked to the People Power Party, dismissed all seven four-star generals, and went on the offensive against critics, including Americans. His administration referred six U.S. nationals to prosecutors for sending rice and Bibles to North Korea in June. Their actions were described as aligning with "far-right" ideologies, although critics say these characterizations echo authoritarian sentiments not suited to a U.S. ally.
At the national security level, director Wi Sung-lac pledged to identify networks—both domestic and international—that he alleged misinformed President Trump, contributing to his comments about political "purges." Gordon Chang, a prominent China critic and American, was labeled a conspiracist.
I mean, that’s a lot. I know they just had an almost-coup, but still.
It’s clear that “free speech” as it exists is busted and just lets cults snowball on social media. At the same time, these same government levers are dangerous, as is clearly seen in history and other current places in the world.
…I don’t know a solution, really. Well, other than freaking reigning in Big Tech so conspiracy breeding grounds wouldn’t be so ridiculously fertile, but apparently that’s impossible.
The solution to halt fascism has never changed: you put every fascists' dick in the dirt.
Brand new sentence.
South Korea about to commie up
Experts warn the rhetoric echoes tactics used by authoritarian regimes seeking to suppress dissent abroad. The FBI defines such measures as transnational repression, a worrying trend for democracies.
This is this the same FBI who is redacting Trump's name from the Epstein files. South Korea must be doing something right! 😂
Edit: fixing autocorrect gone wild!
Still some left mate. name/bame
I should probably turn it off 😧
New conspiracy:
They have made autocorrect so bad to force us to use AI to write for us so we dont have spelling errors.
Im on aide disaboe it completely
South Korea is killing it.
fucking lol
How?
They aren’t putting up with the corrupt global facist oligarch takeover
Mmm, look, I appreciate that THIS SK president is now going down THIS path. But buddy, SK has largely been a testing ground for the less religious elements of this.
This whole thread is just an example of how successful US propaganda has been at relieving people of the burden of critical thinking.
NK bad, SK good, that's the depth they're willing to go to.
Idk why you're bringing up NK, you can dismantle capitalism without becoming an authoritarian dictatorship, but OK.
Jesus Christ. Go read some non colonial history books.
Jesus Christ. Go to North Korea 😂
Note that I never defended the ruling party in North Korea, and that I'm simply rejecting your implication that South Korea is somehow involved in dismantling capitalism.
South Korea was created and is supported by the US explicitly to protect capitalism, and the irony of you reacting to my mere mention of NK in the manner I described is completely lost on you.
I never said NK good, I said people reduce conversations about Korea into "NK bad, SK good". And your response is to tell me to go to North Korea.
I invite you to reflect, sincerely. No mocking laughing emoji, no name-calling, go back and read what I said and how you reacted, and seriously read some non colonial history books (I didn't say NK history books...) on what happened in Korea and what South Korea stands for, without the need to defend the Kim dictatorial regime.
My guy, please talk to a priest. You're fighting ghosts in your head. MY point was that SK is a late-stage capitalist hellhole, literally a staging ground of most of the secular expressions of our christofascist movement. Work til you die for nothing. Take your stress out on women and minorities. Militarize.
That was your point? You made that point by literally saying nothing about SK but responding to my comment by implying I defended NK and then telling me to go there?
Just amazing writing skills you have.
This is after SK was previously signalling they'd cozy up to the Americans lmao.
Love this for everyone involved.
although critics say these characterizations echo authoritarian sentiments not suited to a U.S. ally.
I dont think the US is a valid authority for figuring out what is and isnt authoritarian.
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Seems like USA is losing any allies it had left
Seems like USA is losing any allies it had left
You say losing, I say actively driving them away.
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