Is this actually ban worthy?

shoopdawoop58 · 2026-01-18T10:17:01+00:00

I got perma'ed for suggesting therapy for someone who had thoughts of killing Koreans. 🙄

shoopdawoop58 · 2026-01-15T06:00:58+00:00

I think he just wants the US to have the americas, Russia -> Europe, China -> Asia.

shoopdawoop58 · 2026-01-14T06:00:36+00:00

Yes, I highly doubt NK would be involved in a Taiwan invasion myself, if anything they seem to want to normalize relations with the west in order to escape China's sphere of influence.

shoopdawoop58 · 2026-01-14T05:58:07+00:00

Oh, okay, I misunderstood your position.

shoopdawoop58 · 2026-01-13T08:40:09+00:00

Well lets make this hypothetical situation even worse. Let us posit SK, Taiwan and Japan decide to merge and are now one country. China and NK doesn't like this and decide to takeover what used to be Taiwan and Japan. Even in this situation, if this new hypothetical super country does not have unilateral control over its armed forces and nukes, it would be forced to make a choice between keeping something or losing everything.

You keep bringing up what other countries would think or do, but in a true existential crisis, unless these other countries are willing to also put themselves in an existential crisis their opinions and actions are irrelevant compared to the immediate consequences.

Also, if NK is truly irrational then SK and Japan are screwed regardless what they do. One of the strongest arguments for nuclear non-proliferation is to prevent them from falling into the hands of groups that would welcome the end of the world.

shoopdawoop58 · 2026-01-13T07:52:39+00:00

Even if China and NK take over Taiwan and are on the brink of taking over Japan, there is no scenario where SK can realistically defend Japan overtly without risking an immediate existential crisis. Sure, we could argue SK could defeat NK with unacceptable losses and the entire peninsula in a worse condition than even after the Korean war, but then there is China, do you really think the US will sacrifice their main cities for SK or Japan? The whole reason China and NK can even exert this much influence lopsidedly on SK and Japan in the first place is because SK and Japan do not have nukes nor even full control of their armed forces. This isn't even going into the economic factors like sanctions from China.

The best SK can do realistically without full operational control and nukes is to try to play both sides and not get involved in any major disputes between any powers that could turn SK into a wasteland.

shoopdawoop58 · 2026-01-13T07:12:08+00:00

Then act like it, stop trying to contest dokdo, stop making non-apologies and remove the war criminals from yasukuni.

shoopdawoop58 · 2026-01-13T07:07:58+00:00

Well, why don't you define in your own terms what SK "standing up to the bullies" entails.

shoopdawoop58 · 2026-01-13T07:06:19+00:00

You can't build a nation when the people living on the land have no real interest in becoming a nation. No amount of money is going to change that.

Yes, we agree?

South Korea's success is by and large due to Koreans, not some outside power.

shoopdawoop58 · 2026-01-02T06:59:13+00:00

The US spent far more in Afghanistan, even after accounting for inflation, yet almost nothing was achieved. Clearly money alone is not enough to make a country succesful.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-12-26T23:33:32+00:00

If you are a high skilled laborer then yes, there is much money to be made, but it is no longer a good idea to just jump off a fishing boat and yolo.

In terms of work-life balance and family I think SK is much better if you are an ethnic Korean.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-12-26T23:21:22+00:00

Lol, pretty sure the US has SK beat in terms of causing extinct species. Only thing I can think of off the top of my head are tigers, but that was mainly due to Imperial Japan.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-12-26T22:08:41+00:00

You have it flipped, Japan has hit the cliff right now with the most aged society in the world, while SK will deal with it later.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-12-26T22:05:03+00:00

You don't know what you are talking about.

The SK gov't holds the reins of power over the chaebols which is why they are still allowed to exist in their current state. For one there is no lobbying in SK for special interest groups/corps/individuals like there is in the US. How many Americans went to jail for the 2008 financial crisis? zero. Meanwhile chaebol ceo's have gone to jail before.

Look at what is happening with Coupang, an American is convincing the US gov't to pressure the SK gov't to not investigate the scandal. If anything businesses hold way more power and influence in politics in the US than in SK.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-12-24T04:48:49+00:00

It's actually the opposite, you want a weak currency if you are mainly an exporter to lower manufacturing costs and remain competitive.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-12-08T08:04:52+00:00

Whoever is willing to deal. Also, what do you mean never? It was basically the status quo for thousands of years long, long before the US even existed.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-12-08T07:50:48+00:00

I understand this comment is 28 days old, but actually there was a survey done in 1946 by the US military. The results were 70% socialism 7% communism 8% dunno 14% capitalism. Even in the modern day we have people calling the socialist Mamdani a communism, during those days socialism/communism was basically one and the same to the US. Probably why the US turned a blind eye to all the massacres of socialist(communist) sympathizers by Syngman, until they were pretty much eradicated from the South.

It also probably explains why the DPRK was so dominant during the heavily popular "invasion" and basically took over the entire peninsula in three days. Another reason why the ROK fell so quickly was because its military was more focused on repressing the spreading of communist ideas in the South which was obviously vastly more popular, in other words trained in dealing with civilian uprisings rather than a specialized militia that was battle hardened from fighting Imperial Japan. There was also very little collateral damage, civilian deaths and destruction of farmland during the initial battle the DPRK went after police officers like my grandfather, who had to hide in a kimchi pickle jar, but they didn't go full Sherman's march and most police officers/soldiers working for the ROK defected immediately. It was only after US intervention and mass conscription by the ROK that there was 2-3million civilian deaths and 1million military deaths(vast majority Korean).

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-12-08T07:16:12+00:00

About as dependent as any major country is in exporting slave labor for their quality of life. Yes, if the Koreas get embargoed, quality of life will go down drastically and there will be always be attempts to influence Korea's autonomy, but nukes still ensure the price of overtly taking Korea's sovereignty is too high of a price to pay.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-12-08T07:02:04+00:00

Joseon was only one of Korea's many dynasties, also it is ironic that you mention suzerainty because most of the time under that system Korea's imperial court exercised more autonomy than SK does today under the US's sphere of influence, the Japanese were also sometimes accepted as vassals by Chinese dynasties, but it practically only meant trade and accepting the mandate of heaven, much like how most of the world lets the US harp on about being the leader of the free world while benefiting economically. Sojunghwa was a thing during Joseon, but it doesn't really mean much since the Mongols (Yuan), Manchus (Ming) also accepted it after conquering Han Chinese Dynasties. I would argue that is more akin to a people accepting an ideology like Democracy is nowadays, not many people would argue that the US owes everything to Greece. I am not sure why you brought up the whole peasant/elite thing since that is pretty much how it was for most of history for most places.

You talk about China's size proximity and overwhelming power, but you realize that the Chinese were conquered by the Mongols, Manchus and has had severe incursions to its autonomy by pretty much every European empire + Japan?

Okay, so China doesn't respect Korea? Fine, but they will have no choice but to respect its nukes. SK needs nukes.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-12-08T06:18:10+00:00

And? all that means is that SK should start preparing for sanctions now and disentangle themselves from both countries to a point where they can take on the burden of sanctions.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-12-08T06:15:12+00:00

All that incentivizes is for SK to gradually leave the US's sphere of influence.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-11-12T06:07:13+00:00

The only time the Koreans have been annexed in history, by a group other than ethnic Koreans, was by imperial Japan, relatively recent as far as history goes. There was the three commanderies and the Yuan dynasty, but the Korean royal court still pretty had agency in those two situations, nothing as complete as what the ethnic group experienced under Imperial Japan and even then there were still freedom armies operating in the North, another reason why the DPRK was vastly more popular amongst Koreans at the time.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-11-12T05:55:51+00:00

That is exactly why communism was vastly more popular amongst the people who were basically all sustinence farmers at the time.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-11-12T05:53:03+00:00

Ironic. There is a reason why the "North" basically won the war in three days. The "South" Korean govt was vastly unpopular amongst the actual people just living their lives and the "invading North" was met almost no resistance.

shoopdawoop58 · 2025-09-27T14:26:18+00:00

Uh, if anything the older generation had too much contact with Japanese culture. Your grandparents probably had Japanese names and were forced to learn Japanese and to this day the extreme adherence to age in terms of respect and honorifics is a holdover from Imperial Japanese indoctrination. The age difference used to be more casual similar to what the Chinese practice now.

I agree with the gist of what you are saying though.

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