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.
American defense investors collectively face palm
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.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
Right?! Don’t get me wrong, SK has some PROBLEMS, but good for their president
South Korea about to commie up
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 snowball 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 😧
South Korea is killing it.
fucking lol
How?
They aren’t putting up with the corrupt global facist oligarch takeover
Mmm, look, I appreciate that THIS SK president is now going down THIS path. But buddy, SK has largely been a testing ground for the less religious elements of this.
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.
Idk why you’re bringing up NK, you can dismantle capitalism without becoming an authoritarian dictatorship, but OK.
Jesus Christ. Go read some non colonial history books.
Jesus Christ. Go to North Korea 😂
This is after SK was previously signalling they’d cozy up to the Americans lmao.
Love this for everyone involved.
although critics say these characterizations echo authoritarian sentiments not suited to a U.S. ally.
I dont think the US is a valid authority for figuring out what is and isnt authoritarian.
Yeah, the US has ALWAYS been super authoritarian in its international dealings and has gone full fascist at home and abroad.
It’s not the pot calling the kettle black. It’s the leaking barrel of nuclear waste in the municipal water supply calling candy unhealthy.
I mean, candy is unhealthy but its better than leaking nuclear waste
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
I wonder how NK became NK
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?
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.
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.
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
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
Seems like USA is losing any allies it had left
Seems like USA is losing any allies it had left
You say losing, I say actively driving them away.
Almost like it’s a goal.
Sleep with the dogs. Wake up with the fleas.
Donald Trump is the only republican president to win popular in more than 3 decades. Whatever is happening, and whatever is to come, we deserve it.
With that being said, Donald Trump was easy to beat in both elections. He won because democratic party is not a political party, but a private entity. Yes, democratic party itself has argued at the court that it was a private entity.
The first time Trump won, he won because democrats cheated to run Hillary Clinton, a politician that is seen as corrupt.
The second time he won, the democrats did not even have a proper primary.
Long story short, democrats fought harder against Bernie Sanders, than Donald Trump. I am done with voting democrat. I don’t care what happens.
P.S. AI bots and paid online trolls, you can reply below telling me how democrats are more innocent than Jesus himself and how they have never done any wrong.
How could the Democratic party be anything other than a private entity? In the US the political parties are private entities distinct and separate from the government, it would be weird if they tried to argue otherwise in court. Having the parties as private entities seems a lot less risky and problematic so I am really curious what bothers you about it and how you imagine a system where they were not private could work.
I can see that
ICE raid at Hyundai plant
They don’t want allies. They want colonies.
🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
They don’t want colonies either I don’t think. I believe they want a disparate collection of democratic players to be at odds because “they” is Russia and when democracy is away, Russia will play.
“they” is Russia
Legions of shitty racist American policymakers screening " Russia made us do it"
It’s unclear who are just racist morons and who are collaborating with Russia and who are both.
While Russia has nudged things they had a movement which was very set on Americas downfall who didn’t need much help
Ooo a shiny new scapegoat
Is the usa finally paying for all the coups and countries it destroyed?
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
Ok, but why are they in a room in Russia?
