South Korean President Declares Martial Law

[Apparition of Jack]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/3/south-koreas-president-declares-emergency-martial-law

What the hell is going on?

Edited December 3 by Apparition of Jack

[Husseinisdoingfine]

From what I can understand, the current President of is a Conservative firebrand who got rid of a department which was supposed to oversea sex discrimination in Government and work.

South Korea needs massive workers rights reforms, they currently overwork everyone to death there. They have a huge problem with overwork and their society being deathly competitive. 

[Raze]

From what I understand the opposition controls legislation and keeps blocking his reforms and wants to impeach him for corruption, so he’s declaring them communists or something.

His popularity is too low for anything serious. 
 

[Husseinisdoingfine]

I'm looking into this, and this is crazy. This is to protect the liberal democratic system from North Korean communist forces?

What?

What is North Korea doing?

https://x.com/AFP/status/1863942577797447972

Edited December 3 by Husseinisdoingfine

[Raze]

National Assembly voted to lift the martial law

he’s definitely getting impeached after this 

[Husseinisdoingfine]

2 hours ago, Raze said:

National Assembly voted to lift the martial law

he’s definitely getting impeached after this 

This wouldn't be the first time South Korean impeached, or even imprisoned their own head of state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Park_Geun-hye

Their former right wing nationalist and populist president, Park Geun-hye, was literally sentenced to 25 years in prison and fined ₩20 billion ($17.86 million USD) for abuses of power and coercion charges. 

Edited December 3 by Husseinisdoingfine

[Husseinisdoingfine]

Massive Update to this situation:

South Korean military says it will reject Parliament's block of the martial law.

Martial law will remain in place

[Something Funny]

Crazy times, lol

[Something Funny]

2 hours ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

This wouldn't be the first time South Korean impeached, or even imprisoned their own head of state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Park_Geun-hye

Their former right wing nationalist and populist president, Park Geun-hye, was literally sentenced to 25 years in prison and fined ₩20 billion ($17.86 million USD) for abuses of power and coercion charges. 

The police girl is so pretty though

[PurpleTree]

Gosh keep it together S Korea we need you for WW3.

You are supposed to be the good Korea.

 

[Schizophonia]

It must be one of the worst countries to live in.

[zazen]

South Korea being South Korea with North Korean characteristics. Can’t tell if we’re in the Game of thrones timeline or The Avengers one. Jordan Peterson would say we’re in the X-men one and will be saved 😂

[ChrisZoZo]

It’s funny because North Koreans live in a massive concentration camp, but I think South Koreans are more unhappy. 

[ChrisZoZo]

1 hour ago, Schizophonia said:

 

It must be one of the worst countries to live in

 

Well actually the country of, er, the country of. Fuck your probably right.

[Schizophonia]

20 minutes ago, ChrisZoZo said:

Well actually the country of, er, the country of. Fuck your probably right.

The country of 70 hours of work per week lol

[aurum]

It's been reversed:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/03/asia/south-korea-martial-law-intl

Edited December 3 by aurum

[Raze]

South Korea is done for, their birthdate is so low for every 100 Koreans now they will have 16 children.

[Frylock]

With all the political fuckery going on, climate change, and widening gap between the upper class and everyone else, feels like we're on a quick path to WW3, aka a nuclear humanity reset button.

Edited December 4 by Frylock

[Leo Gura]

Lots of corpo corruption in Korea. You can see the obvious problems of such a system. It is unstable.

They have a lot of cleaning up to do before they can reach the next developmental stage.

Edited December 4 by Leo Gura

[Majed]

@Leo Gura Leo what do you think about my take on this: 

Here's my understanding of why factory farming and evil in consequence exist: God is reality, God is infinite, hence everthing has to exist including the stuff humans deem as evil: murder, torture, genocide, war... And so when you understand that, ethics and being vegan doesn't make sense, because everything will forever exist because of God's infinity, including violence, murder, torture...