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The Countries: Forget it, Burkina Faso, Michigan is still the worst.

Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
guy went to a yoga studio today where 8-11 year old girls were doing Taylor swift yoga and stabbed a bunch of them, multiple reported dead. And this was in northern England.
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This is what started the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslims riots, because the guy was black so they assumed.

He was, of course, Christian.
 
Score another point for Aristotle.

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Bad guys claim victory in Georgia. Same trash: Pro-Putin party beat up pro-European party officials, rampant fasc shenanigans. The Right is the same everywhere.
 
South Korea’s President declared martial law to “eradicate the pro-North Korean forces within.” aka he doesn’t like that parliament disagrees with him.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
South Korea’s President declared martial law to “eradicate the pro-North Korean forces within.” aka he doesn’t like that parliament disagrees with him.
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He specifically forbade parliament from meeting, and parliament is the only body that can overturn martial law.
 
My youngest son is studying the fall term of his junior year at KU in Seoul. He said their President is basically a Korean version of Trump. He hasn't said yet what impact it will have on his daily activities, but knows to be extra careful and not to post anything at all whatsoever on SM.
 
Parliament voted to overturn martial law 190-0, and the president announced he's lifting it. All of that occurred between about 10:30 PM and 4:30 AM Korean time. Imagine going to sleep and waking up and finding out that a failed self-coup attempt happened overnight.

Wife and I were planning to go there in May (after she went by herself last spring). Still may, but glad we didn't buy the plane tickets just yet.
 
unofan said:
Parliament voted to overturn martial law 190-0, and the president announced he's lifting it. All of that occurred between about 10:30 PM and 4:30 AM Korean time. Imagine going to sleep and waking up and finding out that a failed self-coup attempt happened overnight.

Wife and I were planning to go there in May (after she went by herself last spring). Still may, but glad we didn't buy the plane tickets just yet.
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If things mellow out I cannot recommend going there enough. Now my experience was limited (4 days and we never left Seoul) but I don't have anything negative to say about it, and my son has been enjoying the hell out of his 1 semester there. Koreans are very gracious, don't go Parisian if you don't speak the language, it's not very expensive if you avoid eating in the Gangnam District, but the variety and quality of dining overall is tremendous. Plus shopping, great outdoor markets, public transport/Grab options at your fingertips, etc.,. etc. Highly recommend.
 
Slap Shot said:
My youngest son is studying the fall term of his junior year at KU in Seoul. He said their President is basically a Korean version of Trump. He hasn't said yet what impact it will have on his daily activities, but knows to be extra careful and not to post anything at all whatsoever on SM.
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A play straight out of the authoritarian playbook with one major miscalculation: That South Korea only won full democracy less than 40 years ago and most of the Korean political class were likely involved in the student protests that were a major part of that revolution.

This was the equivalent of trying to overturn the constitution while Congress is full of revolutionary war veterans.
 
unofan said:
Parliament voted to overturn martial law 190-0, and the president announced he's lifting it. All of that occurred between about 10:30 PM and 4:30 AM Korean time. Imagine going to sleep and waking up and finding out that a failed self-coup attempt happened overnight.
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Parliament members literally pushed their way past soldiers to get in. I guess the military didn’t get the memo from the President…

The country’s largest union says there will be a countrywide strike until the President resigns. Parliament will impeach him if he doesn’t resign.

I’ve never seen such a rapid, failed political move.
 
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