That should be the populist left line. People hate billionaires and railing against them is immensely popular.

The first good use of AI slop.

watching this to make a yaoi edit of

Critical support to north korean jihad against kkkrypto bros

"humans and other fantasy races" humans are so cool i wish they were real

just checked twitter and a bunch of people are arguing over whether or not encouraging lefitsts to exercise is ablist. the federal agents don't even gotta try anymore dawg. "no don't collectively become stronger why do you hate disabled people?" - least obvious fed

elon musk is like if a president wasn't protected by the secret service

China hasn't been easing up on previous anti-LGBTQ sentiments, they've been making them stronger the last few years.

“Washington is no longer a values partner, and the damage it is doing today will echo for years, perhaps generations. The sooner allies—such as Korea—understand this and calculate accordingly, the sooner they can adapt to surviving in a new world of predation.” www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/...

This is the same guy who wanted nukes really bad

It’s an atrocity 🤯

Now they're going after VPNs. *Pay attention* to what's happening in places like Turkey, India, Russia and China — and how tech companies are complying, or not, with state surveillance. As we've seen in the past month, they'll do the same when prompted here.

The coming years are going to be gruesome for the left. We have to stand firm. Don't give an inch. Pick fights. Fight elites. Don't give in. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/the-left-n...

The current crisis in South Korea triggered by Yoon Suk Yeol stems not only from simple authoritarianism or Trump-style populism but from his weaponisation of deeply-rooted cold war "pro-North" paranoia. My latest analysis for the Guardian:

Two weeks ago, Artemy fell ill to sudden and severe kidney issues. He fought very hard, and for a time seemed to make a miraculous recovery, but yesterday his condition worsened, and continued to worsen after hospitalization. He passed an hour ago. I’ll always love you, you fat idiot.

Thank you all very much for the kind words and messages, Artemy was more loved than he could have ever known. Streams will be back soon, there’s a lot to cover. Here’s Artemy helping me assemble an end table

I've just been informed that the New York Times has privately confirmed the authenticity of the Luigi Mangione manifesto I published, per internal company chat leaked to me. They just refuse to say so publicly.

I love bertolt brecht but also reading his takes about literature had me screaming in agony

"Questions From A Worker Who Reads" by Bertolt Brecht:

Anyways side note this is why the radfem ideology spreading on tiktok like a plague amongst otherwise politically disaffected young girls is bad!

More I think about this the weirder it seems. Is it SOP for military intel to discuss operations at a fast food joint?

Studying and researching north korean socialist realism has only convinced me further that yaoi is the real proletarian literature.

Young women in South Korea outnumbered their *straight male* peers at the impeachment protests. LGBT people showed up with some of the biggest flags.

lmao he's getting Shinzo Abe'd

When your boss says something bat shit crazy but you just have to listen

The notion that reading a shooter’s statement will cause people to snap to attention and become homicidal maniacs, like some kind of Manchurian Agent trigger word, is media paternalism at its worst. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-i-publ...

COLUMN: In 6 hours, Yoon did the impossible: Make North Korea look like the rational one https://www.nknews.org/2024/12/in-6-hours-yoon-did-the-impossible-make-north-korea-look-like-the-rational-one/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I think one of the worst takes floating around the DC blob-o-sphere at the moment is that if Lee Jae-myung becomes president South Korean foreign policy will become "pro-China." Yes, Lee will not be as devoted to the US as Yoon. But there are lots of things to consider. 1/

If I had to explain the current situation in South Korea: imagine if Trump actually believed QAnon and decided to murk Nancy Pelosi because of the adrenochrome lab he believes she has in her basement.

After that speech, it feels like the only thing standing between us and another round of martial law is the military and police’s willingness not to carry out the president’s orders. The PM and PPP leader clearly aren’t in control as they led us to believe. Yoon is still legally in charge.

OP-ED: Seeing red: Yoon’s ‘pro-North Korea forces’ rhetoric evokes authoritarian past https://www.nknews.org/2024/12/seeing-red-yoons-pro-north-korea-forces-rhetoric-evokes-authoritarian-past/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

My latest for the Guardian, on how South Koreans are reinventing protest culture with K-pop light sticks and satirical Christmas carols as demonstrations continue over President Yoon's martial law attempt. A surprisingly festive mood amid political crisis. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

I wrote a thread about the insurrection in South Korea, which received significant attention. However, with so much news pouring in and the situation changing by the minute, I decided to stop updating that thread. Instead, I am starting new threads on a few specific topics.

Donga Ilbo reports People Power Party lawmaker Kim Sang-wook estimates at least 10 ruling party lawmakers could vote in favour of impeaching President Yoon this weekend. Only 8 detectors are needed to pass the 200 threshold for vote to pass. www.donga.com/news/Politic...

New disturbing details of Yoon's failed self-coup plot. Along with shuttering the National Assembly and occupying the National Election Commission, Yoon also sought to arrest critical media figure Kim Ou-joon (who I've seen described as a Korean leftist version of Joe Rogan or Tucker Carlson)

What I have done or thought about sexually has nothing to do with whether or not I am gay. If anything, I am so comfortable as a heterosexual cisgender man, that I’m willing to do things that would likely threaten a more insecure man’s fragile masculinity.

Several days old now but students at my alma mater Seoul National University Graduate School of International Studies, some of whom I taught, issued a statement on Yoon’s martial law declaration. 잘 했네! 멋있어!

The “Chungam High School Faction” of Yoon, Def Min Kim, and Counter Espionage Commander Yeo discussed martial law as early as this past summer according to Yeo although he claims he didn’t think it was serious. www.joongang.co.kr/article/2529...

Also US advisors failed because they were all pro-yoon and didn't foresee this despite warning signs.

Insane that in North Korea you got labor camps full of innocent people who listened to foreign radio once and here in the South you got fascists dipshits like this guy just ruling the country.

Soldiers armed with guns showed up to veteran South Korean broadcaster Kim Ou-joon’s studio soon after Yoon declared the short-lived martial law. He tells Reuters about hiding for 36 hours, South Korea’s democracy and Yoon’s fate. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Conservative media in Korea does not seem to be buying the PPP’s roadmap to have Yoon resign sometime early next year. Me paraphrasing but basically, if he won’t resign, the PPP must impeach Yoon. They say it would be a national embarrassment if Yoon is arrested for treason before being impeached.

1/ Chosun Ilbo reports that South Korean prosecutors may charge President Yoon Suk Yeol with "leading an insurrection" over his alleged role in orchestrating military actions after declaring martial law on 3 Dec. www.chosun.com/national/cou...

What is happening right now in Syria with horrible images coming out of the prison as it is liberated will one day happen when the Kim regime falls in North Korea. Are the people who defend that disgusting regime ready to see those videos and images?

PPP lawmaker Kim Sang-ok near tears as he talks to the media after votes on the impeachment. Says it is his duty to protect democracy even if it means being called a traitor and forsaking his future in politics. I almost never say this about Korean political speeches, but this was moving and honest.

being on the left means you have to hate sports btw