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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this - gonna try posting last weekās thread a different way this time)
really into this whole far right coup and far right right hegemony thing a lot of countries are trying out rn. really cool
As resources get scarcer the lurch back to fascism is going to get worse. People always turn to the simple (but categorically wrong) answers when times get hard, and blaming people who come from other places has historically been a winner for simple and wrong answers. Refugees are a symptom but theyāll be targeted as the cause because their numbers will swell with increasing ānaturalā disaster frequency and severity.
And I have no idea what I can do about it that wouldnāt amount to pissing in the wind.
Sometimes I wonder what future generations will think looking back on the content of todayās internet and humanityās total inability to demonstrate the humane.
Looks like SK gave the bastards a hard nope, at least.
this was the most half-assed coup in recent memory, hands down
hey army do a coup for me
parliament said no
ok
no fanatical loyalists in army, no militia or PMC, zero planning at all, even Prigozhin got that sorted out. very similar thing happened just two years ago in Peru, and this year in Bolivia. and same thing will happen this time, impeachment is already written as we speak. army also exactly knew what was going on and didnāt participate for a reason
by the way, south korean presidents donāt have a habit of leaving office peacefully, so it all tracks. itās either impeachment or coup or long prison term just after leaving office
Wonder if he did the rightwing thing and just went āthe silent majority agrees with my statementsā(*) and just assumed the militaries would be all part of the incel crew and fall in line behind him.
*: On that note there was some cringe thanksgiving video of one of those weird Trump aligned culture war freaks (the daily wire perhaps?) where the freak strides into the thanksgiving event and starts slapping everybody around as some sort of victorious conquerer (at least that is what I imagined was the intended feeling. Not the deranged crazy weirdo vibe it gave off). And this video had a scene which baffled some people, there was a normal guy who was given a big cigar or something and some people were confused why that was a thing. I think that was the imagined āānormalā silent majority guys all secretly agree with me but they are ashamed to actā thing.
I really donāt know what was he thinking, looks like army did the bare legal minimum so that they wonāt be prosecuted for refusing orders. Thereās a couple of things that can be done with minimal number of loyalists that would make coup easier that werenāt done, like cutting power to parliament. This makes me guess that military didnāt want a part in this at all
Iāve seen a take that this was an attempt to get entrenched in power before trump admin begins, as in for foreign relations purposes, but like, itās pretty clear that a couple of people from his family and trusted party people were under investigation so him trying to not allow that sounds more likely. Now that wonāt work because as far as i understand by the end of the week there will be impeachment vote
Iāve seen people in the gun nuttier circles saying that the weapons the army had were configured for training rounds, sort of like airsoft rather than live ammo. It sounds like they were thoroughly uninterested in going along with this and were trying to avoid adding a mutiny to the situation? And yes, SK apparently has an explicit law that allows the legislation to overrule a declaration of martial law, which is the kind of law you donāt get unless youāve had several occasions to think about it.
i havenāt seen it but iāve seen it mentioned too. these are training rifles that use ammunition incompatible with normal 5.56 (simunition), they also had no ammo in sidearms and someone spotted blue (training) magazine. This is not something you can do on accident, they must have been specifically ordered so
Such law makes sense considering SK recent-ish history
from what i understand there was only one small unit slightly loyal to president, that one that was sent (+ MP, + regular police), and even they called quits pretty much immediately (and lost NVG, thatās a beating). looks like they did bare minimum so that they canāt be prosecuted and left just after the vote. defense minister was already dismissed so in retrospect they could slack even harder. 707th (that unit) blocked representatives but police let them in
Didnāt they at least try to block parliament with buses or something? (A thing easily circumvented with the parliamentarians going āwhereever enough of us gather is parliament, the building has no magical qualitiesā
idk what exactly they did but they did get inside anyway
The entrances were blocked so the members of parliament climbed the fence.
Well humans are a liquid, we get into everything.