things that fall off the police radar or weren’t getting any attention

Think of all the murders that happen in large American cities that don’t get anywhere near the police attention as this one.

The worst would be getting a bunch more people killed and then still losing

I don’t understand how so many Americans buy the “North Korea is a cartoonish dictatorship” line so easily. It’s obvious that you can make up any story about it, no matter how outlandish, and the media will just print it uncritically.

It’s like a kid making up crazy stories about their cousin. The kid is full of shit half the time – you don’t believe the other half, you conclude that nothing that kid has to say about his cousin is reliable.

As a result of Yoon’s enhanced role in U.S. military strategy in Asia, the disgraced president has been the darling of the think tanks and Korea “experts” in the U.S. capital. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell has even suggested that Yoon should get a Nobel Peace Prize for putting aside Korean differences with Japan to make the trilateral alliance work.

Is there even one foreign leader the U.S. likes who is actually decent?

Yet even as the United States backs Yoon’s stance on North Korea, the enhanced ties between the Pentagon and the South Korean Army, coupled with memories of what happened in Gwangju 44 years ago, is an explosive combination. Many Koreans remember that after Chun’s coup and the slaughter in Gwangju, President Jimmy Carter directed the Pentagon to help the Korean martial law command crush the uprising by sending an aircraft carrier and advanced reconnaissance aircraft to monitor the actions of the Korean troops dispatched to the city from the Combined Forces Command. After assisting Chun to reassert military control over the country, South Korea suffered seven more years of authoritarian rule.

Even in the most generous possible reading, the South Korean government has been a straight-up U.S. puppet for much of its history.

Lmao that’s not an error, much less one that means anything.

South Korean lawmakers – who had scrambled earlier in the night to block the martial law order with a parliamentary vote

Lawmakers worked swiftly to block the martial law decree

The leader of the opposition Democratic Party, Lee Jae-myung, said the emergency martial law declaration was “unconstitutional"

“Overruled” is a fair characterization. You just don’t like the article.

once a streamer, podcaster, or one of these online personalities makes it big they often move to like LA or NYC. Why is that?

That’s not a streamer thing, that’s an almost everyone thing. Tons of people move to cities as soon as they can afford it, tons of those who don’t stay where they are in no small part because it’s less expensive.

People need to pay attention to what he does, not what he says.

…He’s a pundit. What he does is pick opinions and put them in front of his audience. He seems to have much better opinions than most Americans and is pretty good at spreading them. That’s useful.

Musk, the company’s driving force who is responsible for many of its advances

They just stick this in there uncritically

We’re not going to consumer choice our way out of oligarchy

The man, who admits to belonging to the Wagner Group, tells his interrogator that he and his men drove from the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) to Sudan in order to “overthrow the local government”. The video cannot be independently verified by Middle East Eye.

“Yes, officer, I belong to the crips and drove here to do some gang-related murders.”

Color me skeptical

Look, Biden only pardons drug offenders who are the victims of a concerted political effort to mess with their lives.

Or having a gun and using drugs… extremely common thing to go to jail for

So we don’t even try to do anything good, because someone else could undo it? Make them work, they won’t always succeed.

So corruption isn’t possible at all? If my town’s mayor gives millions in no-bid contracts to his cousin, that’s actually the representative of the people doing what the people want?

Sycophant.

You deliberately avoid understanding me or my position

lol

He still can, he’s not out of office for another six weeks!

Bonus question: if Biden actually cared about a potential mass deportation under Trump, how many millions of immigrants could he pardon of crossing the border unlawfully? It’s a federal crime, after all.

You talk to your wife like that?

you’re from the LARP instance

Ah yes, no one could ever have a serious issue with U.S. foreign policy

If you survived childhood, and there wasn’t a plague around, or a war

Lot of “ifs”

Another factor that contributes to China’s lower incarceration rates is that they often choose not to prosecute “personal” crimes. This would be things like robbery, sexual assault, etc.

Tons of these crimes aren’t prosecuted in the U.S., either, especially claims of sexual assault. And here are some sentencing guidelines from China that address both those crimes, which they don’t have just for fun.

You probably don’t understand Chinese law as much as you think you do, and you’re definitely exaggerating the idea that it’s uniquely unfair or arbitrary. Pre-trial incarceration happens all over the world, police telling suspects to confess happens all over the world, collateral consequences of arrest and imprisonment happen all over the world.

There’s also a ton of context needed to determine whether any of these things are even bad in a given situation. Pre-trial incarceration has all sorts of issues, but if someone goes on a shooting spree and has a history of not showing up to court dates for prior arrests, it’s appropriate.