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South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrested, local media reports
- jickes 2y ago[flagged]
- 9283409232 2y agoIt's wild watching South Korea protect their democracy at the same time the US throws theirs away.
- andrewflnr 2y agoSK looked like they were skating on the edge too. But as an American, yes.
- jickes 2y agoEvery single president has been impeached or committed suicide.
- YZF 2y agoI assume you're a lot more familiar than me with South Korea and the US to make sweeping statements like this one. I for one follow the news from both and realize that I don't really know enough to have strong opinions. I honestly can't tell whether the South Korean president being arrested is something that furthers democracy or doesn't, what role the president fulfills in that democracy etc. I'm not going to jump to conclusions until I've spent a lot more time learning about the topic (which I'm unlikely to do because it's really not super important for me).
- sigmar 2y ago>I'm not going to jump to conclusions until I've spent a lot more time learning about the topic (which I'm unlikely to do because it's really not super important for me). Huh? Did you consider not adding a comment to this thread (before learning enough on this topic to have a substantive contribution)?
- YZF 2y agoI did consider whether I should respond - yes. I think it is substantive in a meta sort of way to point out people shouldn't jump to conclusions without having deep understanding of South Korean politics. Politics on HN always seem to go south and I guess this is going to be another one of those but I'd rather say what I think then browse away.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> people shouldn't jump to conclusions without having deep understanding For what it’s worth, deleting or editing out one’s comments always an option.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoOnly within the first two hours.
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- southernplaces7 2y agoAnd how exactly is the U.S. throwing its own away? In the last elections, held right on schedule as constitutionally designed, a certain slight majority percentage of voters picked their candidate and he got elected. Or do you define throwing away as any time someone you don't like wins, legitimately, through the exact process designed for picking heads of state? It's getting tedious to see the hysterics that many go into about the destruction of democracy whenever whatever their emotional and ideological preference is doesn't happen as they want.
- sg47 2y agoThe guy who won is a traitor
- archagon 2y agoThe guy who won literally tried to steal the last election and started an insurrection: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/76c2c1e8fe2e5ae7/d2d77a9c-full.pdf https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/76c2c1e8... (He’a also a felon and a rapist, but I suppose those qualities can be weighed separately from the treason and sedition.)
- beej71 2y agoWe did elect a guy who is trying to control the Press and says that the lie of the stolen election is grounds for terminating articles of the Constitution. And who tried to undermine the results of the previous election. And he's extremely charismatic and popular. It's not a great look.
- jaredklewis 2y agoI mostly agree with your point, but one pedantic correction is that only a slight plurality of voters, not a slight majority, picked Trump. Trump won 49.8% of the popular vote.
- M95D 2y agoHitler was elected too. He then destroyed democracy while not actually breaking any laws.
- yongjik 2y agoToo bad the story got flagged as nobody had anything to say other than Trump. :/