South Korea's lame-duck president declares martial law, gets instantly overruled by parliament

[Top Gun]

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn38321180et

World has no chill right now. 

[Jman]

Unanimous vote to tell him to fuck off.  That alone is telling.

[Insipid]

South Korea is a fucked nation in many ways. Five companies, or chaebols, control half the country's GDP. America is bad with the corporatism, but fortunately we are still far away from that extreme of a situation.

[Seight]

That is a "but man am I bad at math" level of miscalculation.

[ghostrek]

Okay here's a stupid thing I thought I heard something about North Korea doing something but that could have been a lie

[molarbear]

3 hours ago, Seight said:

That is a "but man am I bad at math" level of miscalculation.

.....WE.EVEN.HAVE.A.MEME.FOR.THIS.ALREADY!!!!!!

[Jman]

 

 

[discolé monade]

On 12/3/2024 at 11:38 AM, Top Gun said:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn38321180et

World has no chill right now. 

it's funny because it's true. 

[Raptorpat]

what does it mean if SK successfully impeached its president and we failed twice

[1pooh4u]

13 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

what does it mean if SK successfully impeached its president and we failed twice

It means that either their procedure of impeachment is too easy or ours is too difficult?  Probably the last part. 

[Dark_Cloud_Overhead]

1 hour ago, Raptorpat said:

what does it mean if SK successfully impeached its president and we failed twice

Means the rest of their politicians aren't apparently as self-serving and corrupt as their president. Although technically, we succeeded in impeaching both times, just the senate didn't get the supermajority of votes needed to convict. I get that's what you meant though obviously. They still have yet to remove Yoon either however. Unlike here it sounds like it goes to their court system to decide, where they need six votes out of nine to get rid of him. I think I like their system better than ours, although I can't say I'm at all confident the result here would have been any different either time if it went to our Supreme Court instead of the Senate.

[Raptorpat]

 

[1pooh4u]

Too bad our courts can’t boot this administration 

[Dark_Cloud_Overhead]

Good for them that they gave this guy the boot. They still got real problems to grapple with looking forward though. I just watched a video a couple hours ago by funny coincidence saying how by 2060 their entire country is looking at a total collapse due to their birth rate being the lowest ever recorded in the history of the world currently. It seems like it's kind of past the point of no return, too, so even if they were to immediately enact some major societal changes somehow, they'd still have some serious, potentially existential, consequences to deal with in just a couple of generations time.