South Korean President Lee Jae Myung pledged this week to go after “far-right” critics both at home and abroad, following his recent White House summit with President Trump. The move has raised alarm among U.S. officials over potential infringement on free expression and transnational repression tactics.
Lee met with Trump on Aug. 25 at the White House to discuss trade, defense, shipbuilding and other strategic issues. But tensions were visible — Lee stayed at a hotel instead of the traditional Blair House, was greeted by lower-level officials, and left without attending a formal state dinner.
Well the far right wants to kill everyone that’s not white, so maybe they should be purged? Fascists will eventually kill everyone that’s not a fascist, so you kinda have to get them before they get you
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Y’all read the thing?
Subsequently, Lee issued an arrest warrant for a pastor linked to the People Power Party, dismissed all seven four-star generals, and went on the offensive against critics, including Americans. His administration referred six U.S. nationals to prosecutors for sending rice and Bibles to North Korea in June. Their actions were described as aligning with “far-right” ideologies, although critics say these characterizations echo authoritarian sentiments not suited to a U.S. ally.
At the national security level, director Wi Sung-lac pledged to identify networks—both domestic and international—that he alleged misinformed President Trump, contributing to his comments about political “purges.” Gordon Chang, a prominent China critic and American, was labeled a conspiracist.
I mean, that’s a lot. I know they just had an almost-coup, but still.
It’s clear that “free speech” as it exists is busted and just lets cults thrive on social media. At the same time, these same government levers are dangerous, as is clearly seen in history and other current places in the world.
…I don’t know a solution, really. Well, other than freaking reigning in Big Tech so conspiracy breeding grounds wouldn’t be so ridiculously fertile, but apparently that’s impossible.
The solution to halt fascism has never changed: you put every fascists’ dick in the dirt.
Brand new sentence.
Experts warn the rhetoric echoes tactics used by authoritarian regimes seeking to suppress dissent abroad. The FBI defines such measures as transnational repression, a worrying trend for democracies.
This is this the same FBI who is redacting Trump’s name from the Epstein files. South Korea must be doing something right! 😂
Edit: fixing autocorrect gone wild!
Still some left mate. name/bame
I should probably turn it off 😧
New conspiracy:
They have made autocorrect so bad to force us to use AI to write for us so we dont have spelling errors.Im on aide disaboe it completely
South Korea is killing it.
fucking lol
How?
They aren’t putting up with the corrupt global facist oligarch takeover
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This whole thread is just an example of how successful US propaganda has been at relieving people of the burden of critical thinking.
NK bad, SK good, that’s the depth they’re willing to go to.
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Jesus Christ. Go read some non colonial history books.
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Better education can fix the far-right movement/cult, or it would be a great step in dissolving it at least…
Being conservative and/or wanting to have a national identity is fine but don’t take it to the extremes, excluding or oppressing others based on origin, religion, sexual orientation, etc. That comes at the expense of fundamental rights and becomes dangerous. Education can fix that.Good.
Honestly, I have a ton of respect for South Korea, especially after seeing how swiftly and decisively they handled their treasonous president.
(please take me, S. K.)
HOLY SHIT KOREA BASED??!
Probably best to specify south Korea
Given that NK also recently announced support for Palestine, I think both are doing ‘good’.
Don’t defend fascist North Korea it’s not a good look
All we can say of NK is we know fuckall in the west, and the brief conversations I personally have had with people who’ve been there weren’t particularly illuminating.
If you have a strong opinion on a subject you have weak data on, maybe do some introspection.
Um there is quite a lot of information from defectors.
Also a large population being hard to get information about is an enormous red flag.
I’m curious about the brief conversations?
Defectors go to prison if they say positive things. They get paid for interviews. This makes them unreliable.
The brief conversations weren’t useful because the people I spoke to were more interested in nature, getting pictures of themselves, and superficial vacation stuff than learning about the people’s lives, political system, history, etc. They didn’t seem to appreciate how utterly foreign NK is/seems to non-chinese.
There’s a lot of propaganda. There’s also real footage of real people living their normal lives in North Korea, believe it or not.
My favorite is this complete jackass who posts shorts on TikTok of Korean people just doing normal things and the commentary is “look at these actors, they’re all acting to shop in the grocery store, they’re all acting to play basketball, they’re all acting to be looking at cars in a showroom, all acting for tourists” and the comments are just people like you who swallow propaganda without a second of reflection. They’re just people who look confused when a white guy starts recording them and speaking English.
North Korea is not what you’ve been told it is, it’s an economically suppressed nation being punished for resisting American imperialism.
North Korea is ruled by an authoritarian, but South Korea is ruled by fascists, so while you shouldn’t jump to say defend it wholesale, “South Korea best Korea” is propaganda.
So knowing that North Korea do things such as rewrite the history on the Korean war to make them look better is not enough to know North Korea is bad or that you can literally be killed for trying to leave if nothing else that’s enough to know they are bad
I don’t know they rewrite history, I’ve never met someone who’s been there and asked that. But its not like the average American’s perception of the war isn’t massively skewed to make themselves look better, if it exists at all.
Because if ypu ask that, while there, you get sent to jail for 10 years.
North Korea’s rewriting of the war where they kicked the imperialist USA’s ass and continue to be victorious is not worse than American/South Korean revisionism where a people separated by the US and USSR and the attempt of one side to reunify the people and end US control was met by sheer brutality and cruelty is reduced to “north Korea invaded with Korea”.
Go back just a little and ask yourself why America had to fuck with Koreans and draw these borders in the first place, why protecting capitalism is such an “good” thing.
isnt the us currently doing that? no lover of nk but that’s a weak-ass argument
You saying “whatabout” doesn’t make their argument weaker lmfao.
Yeah obviously there are a lot more and a better argument but it doesn’t make it okay and it’s actually worse that the US with all its power it has over the west is doing the same crap as North Korea isn’t that scary and not something we should just brush off
I wonder how NK became NK
This is after SK was previously signalling they’d cozy up to the Americans lmao.
Love this for everyone involved.
American defense investors collectively face palm
Surely you mean war investors.
And thats not even sarcastic, I’m simply echoing to the rebranding of ministry of defense to ministry of war. (But that is sarcasm)
A real leader.
PLEASE DO SO
I’m…not sure you’re reading that headline right, Bub.
Wait, no I’m sorry, it’s me who misread it.
lmao at the difference in posture. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a picture of Trump sitting straight
South Korea about to commie up
Bro, if you’re trying to get a republicans you can stay rent free at my house anytime.
If you stand up to Trump and his gang of assholes, my next car will be a new electric Kia.
