1) South Korean President declares martial law to try and go around parliament. Protests in the streets begin.
2) Parliament convenes and unanimously votes to negate the decree.
3) Soldiers withdraw and celebrations in the streets replace protests.
All in a matter of hours.
2) Parliament convenes and unanimously votes to negate the decree.
3) Soldiers withdraw and celebrations in the streets replace protests.
All in a matter of hours.
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A desperate corrupt politician trying to overthrow democracy...
Hmmm.
Korea isn't more sane than America, they're just at a different stage in the cycle.
https://time.com/6156537/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-sexism/
And hopefully will get worse for him as it progresses.
🤔🤔🤔
All the old dude politicians scaling the wall of parliament to get inside to vote... On live streams.
we voted for a wrong leader
and now it's time to get his ass out of that chair and send him to jail
Mostly due to an extreme lack of spines in Congress.
What a strange time to be alive.
The President said he would withdraw his proclamation but hours later has failed to do so. Is he solidifying support behind closed doors or just taking his time?
And yet.. *waves hands around*.. my faith is low it would do the same here.
There was a time that was true in the U.S.
Hoping it isn't lost forever for us
FFS get a clue people! The world is showing us the way!
Compare that to the GOP...
Conservatism is officially a dead belief set in America. Reactionary populist fascism is the new red party…
Just like USSR & China
In all honesty I don’t think that this too far fetched from the same thing happening here. After all it seems that THAT is what America wants! The proof is in the election results we just had.
Hedge accordingly!
AND @theatlantic.com has this to say to Trump.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/south-korea-martial-law/680864/
*attention signals*
:)
https://bsky.app/profile/sarahjeong.bsky.social
Our congress sure doesn't.
Albeit we now have more context of the situation, and my initial claim was based off of posts here.