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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/south-korea-declares-emergency-martial-law

south korea is descending into fascism rn

They've been fascist, by any definition, for decades.

When I went there, I saw dozens of police in full riot gear doing something in formation. There were no riots or protests while I was there. Pure scare tactics.

The Chaebols are a few families that own everything in the whole country. Oligarchs. State and corporate power merged into one thing : fascism.

The economic situation when I was there was bad - imo the worst I've seen anywhere, but I have different priorities than most people. People are locked into debt and life isn't affordable. Its the usual fiat disease, but exacerbated by strict cultural expectations.

One of their recent presidents - Moon, iirc - was a for real communist and agent of North Korea. He's on record promising to destroy South Korea and merge it into the north. Not the other way around. And he was the highest "elected" official. The Koreans I met were not fans of North Korea - I do not believe a guy like that could be elected. That means there is genuinely a conspiracy within their government to betray their country. That pres may be gone, but he didn't get there without backers.

I can partially understand, though. SK is awesome for a foreigner, but being trapped in that country as a citizen would be bad. Not as bad as NK, though.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, koreans are weird, i've found... explains a lot

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

I find their weirdness endearing. Occasionally scary, but mostly endearing

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i'm a fan of asians, hell i'm part asian, technically (indonesian) but i think as a region they are much too obedient and polite... maybe that's the irish and indo-australian GFY powers that i also have

i'm actually pretty polite too, but when someone peeeesses me off i avoid all contact and usually end with a GFY message if it isn't obvious to me after all, that they were a piece of shit from the start

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Much much muuuuuuch too obedient. I like politeness, though.

Which reminds me of the subtle art of saying "okay," which I observed and learned in China. Disagreement just never goes over well east Asia, but that doesn't mean people always obey. They say, "okay," while just still doing whatever. Its like a nonchalant GFY in real life. Its kinda cool, imo.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, bulgaria is actually the western boundary of this kind of behaviour... it's one of the big points of disagreement between serbs and bulgarians this thing... literally even the word serb in bulgarian means "itchy" or "irritable" which i think is a very asian way to talk about someone who is prone to saying GFY

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Sounds like I'd love Serbia. Or hate it. One of the two.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

best bbq in europe hands down

also, best distilled alcohol ever, schlivovitsa, plum brandy, easy to sip, they use these funny narrow necked glasses to drink i, and it smells like a sweet perfume, and has a really really nice effect, in every aspect the best, even better than the $200 scottish single malt

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Plum brandy... My mouth waters just reading that. And I'm reminded again that I should do a new brew... My last mead was very disappointing, and haven't tried in months

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

well, the standard material for serbian schlivovitsa is schliva, red plums

you may have missed their season, the best ones are the small ones from the trees that are like dark red, i seem to recall that by this time of year they are mostly finished, maybe you have a few of the red and orange kind in that small size but they don't have the same perfume or sugar content

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

I should return to basics, for a morale boost. Honey and raisins, I can't F that up

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i forget what spirit is made from mead, but it's nasty... and i should also add that spirit made from apple is awful too, and grape, honestly, sucks without barrel aging, but it's better than apple and honey

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

oh yeah, peach brandy is not so bad either, probably second after schlivovitsa

also quite common in the balkans... also if you are looking for recipes and such the hungarians also make this stuff, they call it "palinka"

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

I should nomad around Europe... Idk why I haven't done it yet

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

it's all a bit crazy especially in the northeastern regions these days, and it isn't as cool as it used to be, EU has contaminated the place, like, it's reverting to the bad parts of soviet days

that reminds me

fascism centers around councils, or "junta" and the russian word for council is "soviet" or "savet" in southern slavic languages, they are the same word but they pronounce them differently based on phonetics, best i can figure out (in russian o is a, and e is ye)

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Fascism and communism are basically the same thing. The ideological difference is only the scope - they were literally the same movement before the first communist congress, in which two divides occurred - the anarchists broke off and became their own thing ; and socialism roughly split into national socialism vs international socialism.

Further differences developed, like the appeal of fascism as a reaction to "bohemianism" - that was the actors and rich people of 100 years ago promoting gay, pedo, and drugs. That's how Bavaria ended up in Germany - Nazism was appealing because they promoted themselves as opposed to communism. Communism was spreading via bohemianism, which is international socialism. But that opposition didn't change the fact that they were the same movement, just using different tactics.

Which, super simplified, is just the next iteration of legislatures ruling the country. Councils replacing markets, always trying to solve the problems it creates by making the council bigger and more encompassing.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

ultimately it's all just a cloak for the ruling class to hide under, in any case, the more patsies the better

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Yep.

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Another interesting bit is that international socialism appears to have had a lot of Jewish leaders. So that might explain some things...

This is not an anti-Jewish note. Just a passive observation.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

it's true, but focusing on that was a very specifically austrian/german socialism criticism, and quite notable in that after the war asking any questions about teh history became a heresy in almost all mainstream culture

and in concert with pointing out that the nazis killed a lot of other people than jews (they hated gypsies and asians and gays and artists) the regime of Stalin also was pretty heavy going against jews, the Pogroms of Ukraine and Poland and those regions heavily focused on exterminating jews, and as you point out about the anarchist branch, they really aren't socialists, but rose out of similar circumstances, all across the world...

Eric Blair aka George Orwell originally was inducted into socialism but fell into contact with spanish anarchists who opened his eyes to some things and gave us the famous books (animal farm and nineteen eighty four) that are both allegories of what socialism actually is.

it's the thing that irritates me the most about "right wing" people is that they, and all the left wing of the "counterculture" types don't even realise that none of this is about races, or political stripes, it's just about covering up the existence of the ruling class, and creating an illusion that what happens was the choice of the people

it may well be there is numerous genetic lines, of which some are labeled "jewish" but it goes back way further than merely 2500 years ago in the middle east... in actual fact it goes back over 12000 years, but anyway

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Its all narrative, and the narrative serves the purpose of transferring power from average Joes to... Not average Joes... That analogy broke down. In China, the story of communism is presented as virtuous, like the story of the American Revolution. People believe it enough to not be a threat to power. And people here are passionate about the Revolution and Washington etc, but it doesn't change the fact that we're taxed and nothing we say can stop whatever war is slated to happen next.