Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
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)
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
Well humans are a liquid, we get into everything.
The entrances were blocked so the members of parliament climbed the fence.