The footage I've seen of this has been affirming. Crowds of regular unarmed people just quite happily pushing the soldiers around, shutting them in buildings with their own tear gas.
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Absolutely. You beat me to it. This is the same. I led 2000 ppl in my home town (at the time) in a rally supporting that brave man's message. We stood with a Goddess of Democracy in London ON's Victoria Park 2 weeks later in 1989.
Did the SK military have units deployed that would have no problem gunning down their fellow citizens?
No?
Oh, so it'd go down way different here.
Just like they did in Tiananmen, they'll bring in the 'loyalists' that will have qualms running over a protester with an APC and gunning down more.
Wait, we called them election deniers, don’t do that. Biden, like it or not, our guy is also a felon and neither have been indicted so neither can be called a felon
The MAGGOTs will just use this as justification for their 2021 riot. They don't suffer from cognitive dissonance. They revel in it. If they could spell it, that is.
Americans can't be bothered to show up and vote, or take the time to make an informed vote. I am ashamed of America. We need people to take a few minutes a day to learn the basics of what's happening in our country. Just the bare minimum, lazy, entitled assfaces.
I bet more people would vote if they knew their vote counted. The electoral college discourages turnout because who would vote in a state if you knew the majority of voters are voting for the other person.
I’m SURE South Korea isn’t a harbinger for ANYTHING that’s gonna happen here at all…not…a…thing. Because Donald Trump NEVER gets his idea from news stories… not…at…all
I guess Takei is suggesting that we also 'take ideas from news stories'... and I guess I would sign-on, just as long as no one suggests we smear feces on the walls of whatever we're storming, if the edifice itself and its history deserve some sort of respect.
The more I see people in other countries having the guts to stand up to their leaders while we sit on our asses, the less I believe in American defiance.
I agree but we do have a bunch of things working against us. First off, distance. We are a very large landmass, getting enough people to say, block the capitol, is possible but also would rely mostly on people already on the east coast. The sheer size of the U.S. is our biggest downfall here.
What we are is a very large collection of states held together by a mutual agreement, one that is for all intents and purposes unravelling. At some point we may need to confront that fact. None of the states are united and may as well be their own individual countries despite our common language.
If you look at South Korea, or Georgia or Europe as a whole their countries, geographically speaking, are small. A few hours to get to the capitol to do something is not as big of a feat as it is here. This is why resistance is gonna be so spread out here over the next 4 years.
Part of me is like... dammit, the US hasn't dealt with inflation in so long that we probably should have had years of messaging on how supply chain restoration + competition can bring prices down a bit, but we won't have deflation without outright collapse...
The other part of me: "My house on several acres is paid off & I raise/grow enough food to know I could go further in the homestead direction. Stupid, self-sabotaging MFs can tell me how the romantic rendezvous with the sandpaper dildo of consequences went when I rejoin society in a decade!" 😂
If you were born, grew up, and attended Cuban schools you'd know that we are well indoctrinated population. We had something called maestros emergentes which means you became a teacher in six months and went straight to teaching in schools.
Another presidential system on the verge of authoritarianism? Designers of democratic institutions may want to see what political scientists have written about presidential systems and their tendency to become dictatorships.
South Korean citizens not only helped their lawmakers cross barriers to vote against martial law, they joined together demanding that their leader, who tried staging a coup, resign immediately! Not like in the US where GOP/MAGAts re-elected the coup leader as President. What happened to our country?
Did it tho or could it be just another kleptocrat tryna take over? He’s been giving Ferdinand Marcos from the jump if UStaxpayers honest with themselves ff
Think he’d take non extradition with Bong Bong in 🇵🇭 or too racist? Gotta be 🇷🇺 then
The low standard education system was also created by decades of underfunding due to Republican pressure. They always intended to destroy public education. It's taken about forty years to accomplish it.
It's always been a two tiered justice system, Trump just made that irrefutable. I'm not lawyer (yet) but it seems like everyone should be using the new "Trump defense."
The law must be applied equally or it is rendered invalid.
Really faux should be shut down. And any media spreading misinformation should be fined and suffer similar consequences. We can’t have two set of facts
Not only does the mass media spread misinformation, they also entertainingly re-create serious issues, minimize Trump party and far right's faults and impact on the country. Actually the mass media wants Trump to win in order to make more mess and chaos to gain higher audience ratings.
Poor education, mis and disinformation along with fractured information distribution, and a little bit of hubris and self-centeredness thrown in. Add that to the many cultural cracks that have swirled around since our founding, and here we are..
I wake up with this thought in my head daily, and its frequently the last thought on my mind as I go to sleep and dream of our potential dystopian futures. Now they're threatening to "annex" Canada as state #51...WHAT?
It’s infuriating to consider! Of course, they’ll claim he was just joking. But was Jesse Watters (Fox News), when he decided West Canada would be given to the GOP & East Canada to the Dems? Dems aren’t interested in stealing your country…
Disinformation. Whoever owns the narrative that reaches the ears of his or her base wins - especially since the media is a greedy revenue driven consequences be damned pipeline. The FOX Entertainment acolytes are easily fooled by the basics of psychological operations. To wit Cambridge Analytic.
You're right! We need that energy. I would like to see a group of leaders - not politicos but people like you, Sir - begin to call for some large-scale public action. Not one-time "marches" but ongoing action. Maybe weekly, maybe monthly at first. There is no depth of experience the US with
such things, and I think when we absolutely have to have it, it won't be there if we don't practice first. And simply preparing, en masse, is a deterrent.
& our Constitution Art. 14/3 should have put DonOLD far from returning to any political position. The court cases should have proceeded more promptly & he'd have been in jail long ago.
I voted for Biden primarily so he'd arrest & prosecute Trump for J6. Tick tock Then the classified documents came out. I thought surely now Trump will be arrested. Tick tock. Then he's allowed to run again !? I can't get my head around any of it. Biden has immunity. Use it Joe.
I'm not an attorney but surely insurrection isn't a regular crime. It should fall under military law at least. TFG should have been arrested & held pending trial as a flight risk.
Any other person who acted that way during trials would have been thrown in a county jail until the trial date. The fact that they let him fly around and do crap was ridiculous.
I got in a pinch for a couple plants (2) and was on house arrest, 5 years community service and 30 days in jail and couldn’t leave the county w/out permission. This guy tries to overthrow the government…….WTF? WTF? WTF?
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Nelson Mandela was a convicted criminal too, and was arguably the best elected leader in South Africa. The issue isn’t that the USA allows a criminal to run for office. The issue is that the nation voted for a crazy person.
That should anger everyone.
Democrats lost because they told the people Trump and company committed crimes, then did nothing to punish the criminals and traitors.
Exactly. I'm disgusted with the Dems & I can't understand their reasoning. It's as if we're watching a movie where members of each party play pre-determined roles.
Well, then run out the clock on them if it means saving us from a dictatorship. Dont say then he'd be as bad as they are because he won't. Their appointments were illegally made by McConnell's "clock"
I believe what is happening here is the belief in S. Korea, that when the FG gets POTUS again, we will not be defending our allies any longer. NOT that I agree with martial law, but the S. Korean govt. is nervous about the next four years and the FG's relationship with Kim.
Get plugged in to a pre-existing organization that is doing good work. Easiest way is to just join #dsa or volunteer with your local Democratic precinct. Only organized, collective action is capable of stopping fascism.
I do not see it happening in the US before the Trump administration, and similar has taken power.
And then it is too late in at least the US due to the gargantuan armed forces, and rather far right leaning law enforcement. Plus Americans are not used to fighting for causes anymore.
No, Americans can't take off of work to do it. Many are paid hourly AND if their employer finds out which results in them getting fired, there goes health insurance. This isn't South Korea and Europe with universal healthcare. No safety net - that's why Americans don't do it.
Yeah idk why people are like "Americans are lazy" when almost everyone i know is working 1-2 jobs just to make rent. It's hard to hold back the rising tide of fascism when you only sleep 4 hours a night.
I don't think Americans are lazy. I think they're distracted by the pop culture that the media shoved down our throats by the corporate media overlords, so we don't notice that they're taking our rights and and future.
we won't get it from a bunch of dems who are heavy into the stock market and suck the moneyed teet, too. have you SEEN how senate leadership is sticking with the same folks we've had?
Yeah, well some of us better toughen up & train up & learn to fight like Hell, even HARDER than MAGAts do & could imagine we're capable of! Sorry to make this prediction; but saving our Democracy won't be bloodless!
There is a slight difference between ELECTED MEMBERS OF CONGRESS gaining access to THEIR voting room and trespassing by random dudes dressed as bisons, though.
@georgetakei.bsky.social so this gets the "No Shit, Here We Are" Not-Making-This-Up disclaimer, but on one of the videos, there's comments from someone who speaks korean.
the soldiers were screaming at legislators, get this, "THREE POINTS OF CONTACT" repetedly.
I have two step sons who just finished their mandatory military training in South Korea. Rather unnerving. Sure hope this is the end. —
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But isn't North Korea behind some of that? And should they really be breaking in, a la our Capitol?
I want dissent without martial law crackdowns, but this kind of seems nuanced... not necessarily a model for us.
Conservative President running a minority government invokes martial law because the liberal democrat party opposed his budget, I reckon Putin has hands in that pie too, even if NK has influence in the opposing party (doubtful, thats just what Yoon wants you to think, think red scare/McCarthy)
I'm no political science geek or anything, but from whats been happening around the world for the last 10 years, that's how I see it, if in doubt, blame Putin, cos it's most likely the correct assumption
Ex Lieutenant colonel in the KGB missed the old USSR, he orchestrated the ousting of Yeltsin to become absolute ruler, Russians have not known any different in hundreds of years, The Tsars, then Stalin etc, the 90's were the most stable globally until Putin wanted to relive the glory days
Going against an executive order this way isn’t cool🤷♀️ they shouldn’t forget that their neighbors are erratic and waiting for an opportunity to latch on and take advantage.
I still don't understand why this worked out well. But good things don't need explainations. Hopefully SK stops being a military dictatorship after this. The fact that the dictatorship is "only on paper" doesn't stop the president from declaring Martial Law whenever he wants.
Absolutely @georgetakei.bsky.social .. I think USA citizens with tRumpski taking power and control for the 1% and outright fraudsters like himself in January need to keep both eyes open, not just to protect themselves but the whole world from tyranny.
Unfortunately they probably are. I say unfortunately, because it is the action in the image they would be ready to shut down, not the martial law declaration.
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Please….
HOW can we get all of you with large accounts to unite to get us GATHERED, ORGANIZED and PREPARED????
We’ve weeks left and things are going to happen QUICKLY.
HOW are we fighting??
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Why are we standing by and doing nothing while #45/MAGA dismantles our democracy piece by piece?
No?
Oh, so it'd go down way different here.
Just like they did in Tiananmen, they'll bring in the 'loyalists' that will have qualms running over a protester with an APC and gunning down more.
Need it now.
We ought to be protesting this election.
How can a Felon be our President?
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THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY
LOOKS LIKE…
Sorry, I had to say it because I'm still mad at the justification they gave for voting for Trump.
Part of me is like... dammit, the US hasn't dealt with inflation in so long that we probably should have had years of messaging on how supply chain restoration + competition can bring prices down a bit, but we won't have deflation without outright collapse...
The Christian Nationalist Michael Flynn, that Nat-C?
Also had a part in the indoctrination & degradation of MAGATS’
Ability to think
Think he’d take non extradition with Bong Bong in 🇵🇭 or too racist? Gotta be 🇷🇺 then
The law must be applied equally or it is rendered invalid.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause
...of skinny weak beta males 😆
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Democrats lost because they told the people Trump and company committed crimes, then did nothing to punish the criminals and traitors.
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And then it is too late in at least the US due to the gargantuan armed forces, and rather far right leaning law enforcement. Plus Americans are not used to fighting for causes anymore.
And that will take a lot of discipline by the public to remind Senators the people make a better master than an emperor.
Now if our leaders would truly fight what’s wrong & corrupt, maybe they could grow some😏
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the soldiers were screaming at legislators, get this, "THREE POINTS OF CONTACT" repetedly.
they were giving safe climbing tips.
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Don't get me wrong, but this is a completely different situation in a completely different culture.
I want dissent without martial law crackdowns, but this kind of seems nuanced... not necessarily a model for us.
Americans are divided, thanks to Trumpstein's cancerous mission to gut the government by his deplorable misfits GOPs...& Other henchmen.
Kudos to the people of 🇰🇷