• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Didn’t the South Korean government just narrowly avoid a Parliamentary coup a few months ago? Wasn’t this instigated by a President who claimed the entire opposition party was North Korean spies and infiltrators, and that he needed to seize power on the grounds that they’d be rounding up everyone who disagreed with them and have them executed if he didn’t?

    It seems like South Koreans have been promoting the “In North Korea, everyone kills one another for treason constantly” Red Scare mythology for so long that they’re destabilizing their own country’s national leadership fighting these phantoms.

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      2 hours ago

      And the President was impeached for it. No-one in Korea genuinely believed his excuse for the attempted coup. Korea is far healthier at dealing with corrupt presidents than the USA.

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        2 hours ago

        And the President was impeached for it.

        Without criminal charges. He was removed on a procedural technicality and remains eligible to run for public office again in another five years.

        The best part is that he was replaced with Han Duck-soo, a man currently under investigation for his complicity in the Yoon coup. Just rotating bad apples through the post.

    • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusOP
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      4 hours ago

      social credit score +100

      good work, comrade weevil, you’re doing the people’s work!

      you’re obviously a braindead fucking tankie, so I don’t have any interest in our association anymore and will be blocking you.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        social credit score +100

        My brother in Christ…

        Your actual credit score is far more of a burden on you than the fantasy one you’ve invented to scare yourself.