Canary in the coal mine

With the entire world sliding into fascism, it really feels like the death knells of an era…

Time to actually shut it down instead of pretending like we made any sort of progress.

Protests need to be backed up by a demand and backed up with real life ramifications.

If you won’t support a general strike or hitting the oligarchs in their pocket books, what good are you?

Good news the coup looks like (at the time or writing) to have failed pretty miserably at was shot down by everyone else in South Korea (not even his own political party supported it)

There isn’t anything fully confirmed yet but it looks like the South Korea president neglected to ask the (checks notes) the millitary for permission before attempting to do an millitary coup

Something that, experts believe, is quite important if you want to do an millitary coup. So that happened

Edit

So new reports say that maybe the coup isn’t off yet, as the millitary (or some in the millitary) say they won’t back down despite the parliment voting to make null the martial law

Very mixed reports, this is still breaking news

There are also big protests in South Korea now against the decision so now fucking idea what will happen there

This is actually very funny, because the South Korean parliament also just voted to repeal the martial law. 190-0. This attempted coup lasted for 1 Amazon bathroom break.

I’m curious if trump encouraged this.

Their parliament voted 190 to 0 to invalidate the presidents martial law. The military even said they would not support his coup. Thinking this guy needs to be booking a flight to some obscure country, lol

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sure that sounds good in theory, we can be on guard all we want…but realistically what in the world are we supposed to do about anything? if we were capable of preventing any kind of political bullshit in this country we would have done so long ago

So we gotta impeach trump.

If you don’t think what happened in SK can possibly happen here, you’re delusional.

This is the world we live in now. Even if you never thought it could be, it is.

America elected a leader who’s greed will never be satisfied. Make no mistake, he wants ALL the money and ALL the power. If the military backs him without dissent, he’ll get it, too.

South Korea’s president just showed him the way. God help us.

Do not be surprised to see SK fall into conflict with NK, given the rumors NK troops are involved in the Russian / Ukrainian war.

It’s also worth noting Zelensky cancelled elections in Ukraine and is currently in office well past the end of his term. At the end of the day, what the people want really does not matter.

I hope I’m wrong. But we are slowly but surely being pushed into WWIII. The middle east, Russia, now potentially NK/SK, and then probably China and Taiwan.

Lardass basically just got another idea.

And do what about it exactly?

The canary died and we voted to keep going deeper into the mine.

**Russian disinformation attacks are highly effective. It’s well past time to start treating them like attacks. If anyone is saying that we shouldn’t be fighting back, they are complicit and/or an idiot.**

My hope is Russia implodes with its economic difficulties and rids the world of its influence.

For those of you just tuning into South Korean politics, by my metrics its one of the most functional democracies on the globe. Yes, headline grabbing stuff happens pretty often there, like presidents trying things, and the legislative bodies impeaching the president. Also the own of the largest company is hooked up to machines to keep him technically and legally speaking alive forever just to avoid inheritance taxes.

But yea they’ve impeached their president out of office like 6 times in 20 years and thats a good thing.

>the opposition has blocked his agenda and impeached his cabinet

Yo, that’s pretty cool. We should do that, man.