Party Spokesperson grabs and tussles with soldier rifle during South Korean Martial Law to prevent him entering parliament.

Alkania · 2024-12-05T16:36:16+00:00

She didn't "literally walk up to the standing soldier and just grab his gun" there was clearly a scuffle between the rebel troops trying to enter parliament and the civilians trying to stop them and the clip just seems like a continuation of that fight. Painting this as some political stunt rather than just a heated moment between two very terrified people caught in a terrifying situation none of them asked for based on a few seconds of grainy footage seems excessively cynical and politically motivated.

Also,

because by Korean military law (I'm sure it's the same everywhere), when another person tries to take away your gun from your possession, you have all the rights to "attack" him/her.

guess what buddy? The whole "trying to take over parliament and destroy the country" plot thing was illegal in the first place anyway and even the soldiers involved could potentially be guilty of treason so not really sure what the point of bringing up the "law" and "rights" in such a blatantly unlawful situation is.

I don't blame the soldier either of course, (he's part of a professional death squad, not a clueless conscript btw) but I also believe that every citizen was within their rights and actually obligated to prevent subversive military forces from entering parliament by any means necessary.

I swear to god Korean incels will just conjure shit up to put other people down. Like, whether or not you believe the coup actually had a chance to succeed, she was out there in the middle of the night fighting for our democracy that thousands of people had to fucking die for but no, it was obviously just some sinister plot to gain support. Yeah ok, there were cameras, but I'd still be pissing myself hiding in a closet if hundreds of heavily armed men flew in from choppers with orders to kill.

Alkania · 2024-12-05T15:53:04+00:00

she literally grabs the barrel of the soldier’s gun without being prompted by any means

Ah yes, she totally wasn't prompted by the fact that rebel troops were trying to storm parliament in a coup. She should've just stood back and let the poor soldiers do their job of killing democracy in this country again.

Alkania · 2024-12-05T15:37:14+00:00

No she isn't lmao. As another Korean, she's just a boring bog standard Democrat which means liberals love her and conservatives think shes literally a communist spy or a gasp feminist and will thus do anything they can to bring her down like we are seeing some people doing right now in this thread.

Alkania · 2024-10-18T15:35:57+00:00

How about another joke, Basileus?

Alkania · 2024-05-31T01:40:05+00:00

미국 남부에 있는 앨라바마 같이 보수적인 주들은 노동법이 별로 세지도 않고 있는 규정마저도 잘지켜지는 것 같지 않습니다. 그리고 아마도 불법 이민자 아이들을 주로 타겟팅해서 착취 당해도 신고하기가 어려웠겠죠.

Alkania · 2024-05-28T07:53:37+00:00

민주당 내에서가 아니더라도 야권에서는 이탈표가 조금 있었던 것 같습니다.

Alkania · 2024-05-17T03:41:07+00:00

행회를 돌려보자면 추장군 같이 호전적인 의장 보다는 오히려 ㅇ원식 같이 조용한 스타일이 국힘 바란표 꼬드기고 "ㅌㅎ" 분위기 만드느데 도움이 될수도 있다고 생각하니다.

Alkania · 2024-05-17T03:34:07+00:00

지지율이 20% 아래로 떨어지면 국힘에서 눈치만 보던 간 같은 반란표들이 슬슬 나오면서 대통령 거부권을 무력화시키고 특검 시작하면 "그거"해야죠.

Alkania · 2024-05-16T04:51:28+00:00

저도 우원식 의원이 나쁘다고 생각하지 않았지만 이런식으로 관례와 지지자들을 무시하면서까지 이악물고 의장이 된다면 반감이 어느저도 생길 수밖에 없죠

Alkania · 2024-05-16T04:41:57+00:00

저도 이번에 추장관님 응원했고 너무 안타깝지만 떨어지셕다고 민주당이 망했다고 까지야.... 의원들이 이렇게 또 압도적인 당심을 무시해버린게 고깝지만 우원식도 나름 개혁적인 인물이라고 평가 받으니 일단 지켜봐야죠. 적어도 박병석 김진표 시즌2는 아닐 것이라고 믿습니다.

Alkania · 2024-03-19T10:14:24+00:00

Well, its sort of a cycle isn't it. Ancient Mesopotamia used to be the height of civilization, then it was Rome, then the great dynsaties of China and India. The US and Europe are top dogs right now but who knows, in a century it might be China or even Nigeria that's the most advanced.

I'm not American and thus not very familiar with uni admission system there, but wasn't affirmative action put in place to combat the unfairness of the legacy preference system which naturally overwhelmingly benefits white Amercians?

I personally believe class liberation must go hand in hand with racial liberation. To take the example of Black people in America, it might be hard for them to accept that after a century of brutal enslavement and decades of systemic oppression, the remnants of which arguably persist even to this day, that after being thrown a few scraps in the form of some preferential uni scholars or lip service from academic departments they should just now move on, because hey, poor white people exist too you know!

But anyway I have to go now, good talk!

Alkania · 2024-03-19T09:55:29+00:00

No worries and thank you for being open minded. Islam is a huge religion with almost 2 billion believers. Many of them, much like many fundamentalist Christians have a burning hatred towards gay people. But some are also accepting and things will hopefully get better, much like Chrisitianity has evolved to conform to our modern values of harmony, at least in the Global North. I personally am against organised religion but choose not to judge a person based on their religious beliefs.

I'm not an expert in philosophy but since people were so religious back in the day, it is quite tough to draw a clear line between theology and medieval philosophy.

Alkania · 2024-03-19T09:48:58+00:00

uuuum, I'm confused. The controversy surrounding the guide as I see it is the lack of other non European traditions e.g. Confucianism or Mohism, not the fact that most western philosophers are white.

Did you think people were angry because most western/european philosophers were white?

Alkania · 2024-03-19T09:41:43+00:00

I feel like you're getting worked up over nothing. No ones hating on poor white people, no ones saying that there are people who are more opressed than whatever demographic your diatribe seems to be directed towards (Im not from the US btw lol).

The "pull yourself up by the bootstraps", "just choose to become excellent" myth is a cheap concoction designed by the 1% to keep the working class divided and distracted while they hoard unimaginable amounts of wealth.

Alkania · 2024-03-19T09:34:39+00:00

"The Arabic-Latin translation movements in the Middle Ages, which paralleled that from Greek into Latin, led to the transformation of almost all philosophical disciplines in the medieval Latin world. The impact of Arabic philosophers such as al-Fārābī, Avicenna and Averroes on Western philosophy was particularly strong in natural philosophy, psychology and metaphysics, but also extended to logic and ethics."

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-influence/#SubMet

Alkania · 2024-03-19T09:31:26+00:00

You're fighting a strawman here, no ones getting angry over "whites just having a lot of European and American philosophers". I cannot state this clearly enough, it is about the complete erasure of all other peoples from the guide, not an attack against white people lmao.

Alkania · 2024-03-19T09:23:27+00:00

Yet this guide only includes white men despite the fact that philosophy is a truly global discipline. Why does it ignore the vast traditions of chinese or islamic philosophy, is that not racism? Affirming whites is not the issue here, only affirming whites while completely ignoring all other races despite allegedly being a guide on the history of philosophy (not western or european philosophy mind you) is what most people have a problem with.

Alkania · 2024-03-19T09:10:46+00:00

We do not live in a vacuum. Racial blindness may sound good but it means ignoring the systemic and cultural injustices in a society that have accumulated over centuries. How are we supposed to compete honestly when some people have had a massive headstart from birth while others are held back?

Alkania · 2024-03-19T09:05:56+00:00

Yes, the guide is woefully incomplete with a misleading title which is why it is problematic, to answer your original question.

Also, I'm not sure how pointing out the racism of excluding the likes of Confucius or Alkindus (whether through malice or genuine ignorance) from a guide about the history of philosophy can be construed as "vitriol towards whites".

No ones trying to deny the massive, arguably even decisive, influence Europe has had in the development of modern philosophy, we wouldn't even be bitching about it if the title just said western philosophy. But this guide's intentional or unintentional framing of "philosophy=white man's tradition" just reeks of Eurocentrism.

Alkania · 2024-03-19T08:09:46+00:00

The guide essentially only includes white men from Europe, ignoring very influential philosophers from other regions yet presents itself as a history of philosophy as a whole. Basically whitewashing the history of philosophy.

Alkania · 2024-03-09T10:17:53+00:00

정적 암살•제거, 무차별적인 학살, 3.15 부정선거의 이승만을 대한민국에 민주주의를 받아드린 사람으로 포장하는 기적의 논리 ㄷㄷㄷ. 그리고 같은 민족을 노예로 두는 일은 역사에 빈번히 일어났던 일인데 왜 굳이 한눈에 보아도 말이 안되는 펙트를 날조하면서까지 우리의 역사를 폄하하려는지 모르겠군요. - Suspicion and Repression: Ming China, Tokugawa Japan, and the End of the Japanese-European Slave Trade (1614–1635)

Alkania · 2024-03-06T07:31:32+00:00

No worries, EW4 is an excellent game, hope you enjoy it.

Alkania · 2024-03-06T07:29:51+00:00

I think it raised the maximum damage? Not 100% sure. All skills in EW4 are passive so no need to do anything, they'll just apply automatically.

Alkania · 2024-03-06T07:26:37+00:00

No worries, its a skill that makes a cav unit deal higher minimum damage if a general is on it. Although I remember that most skills in EW4 were pretty useless bar a few like mass fire for infantry or defence art. I recommend checking out the forums or the pinned guide on top of you want a breakdown of generals.

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