All these CIA-backed puppets are taking over because Chinese and Russian intelligence are not doing enough to thwart the CIA.
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All these CIA-backed puppets are taking over because Chinese and Russian intelligence are not doing enough to thwart the CIA.
Hmmm, I would argue that while the CIA puppets are doing there job to screw things up, even they are not immune for making some really stupid f*(k ups, they certainly failed to in the bigger picture, handle the current situation so that i didn't sky rocket inflation in the west to the point where gas, oil and food prices are sky rocketing. Also to note is that they basically destroyed Europe with their policies and such. So in the end, if they somehow managed to burn down the US and the EU and both China and Russia are still going strong, then in the end, they will be thwarted one way or the other
Then what would you say about the leftist takeover of South America ? Is the CIA not doing enough while Chinese and Russian intelligence are overworking there?
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SOUTH KOREA PRESIDENT ELECTION 2022.03.09
The South Korean presidential election is today. A few things: 1. The current president is ineligible for reelection as the Korean constitution forbids it: Single term, five years. 2. Plurality wins. There is no ranked choice or runoff. 3. Korea does not have a Vice President
The Ballot: There are 14 candidates on the ballot, but 2 dropped out of the running and endorsed one of the major candidates. They’re assigned a number according to their party’s seats in the National Assembly. 1-5 hold seats, and parties with no seats are listed alphabetically.
THE PARTIES:
The Democratic Party
big tent/ctr-right~ctr left
172 seats
People Power Party
ctr-right~right wing
106 seats
Justice Party
left wing/social democracy
6 seats
The People’s Party
ctr-right~ctr
3 seats
Basic Income Party
UBI/ctr-left
1 seat
THE POLLS:
Realistically speaking, only and have a chance to win. and have only polled in the single digits, and polls at 0. 
, the perennial weirdo, polls around 2%. The rest of the field sometimes breaks 0.2%.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT:
Ever since the transition to democracy, only parties (big tent/center-right to center-left) and (center-right to right wing) (and their predecessors) have won.
1987:
1992:
1997:
2002:
2007:
2012: (impeached)
2017: current
THE DROPOUT:
is Charles Ahn, who rose in prominence as a tech CEO in the 90s and 00s. He was in coalition as the current president Moon Jae-In in an iteration of party in ‘14-‘15, but fell out. Last week, he endorsed . After the election, he is merging his party with .
THE PROGRESSIVE:
is Sim Sang-Jung, a former labor organizer and 3-term assemblywoman from Justice Party—the only member of the party to represent a district and not from the proportional list. After consistently low polling, she considered suspending her campaign earlier.
THE OPPOSITION:
is Yoon Suk-Yeol, a career prosecutor who was the chief prosecutor general (2017-9). Although he’s seen as a political newcomer, never been elected, he went after the current Moon Jae-In administration fiercely as prosecutor general, which won him the primary.
THE POPULIST:
is Lee Jae-Myung, member of President Moon’s Democratic Party. Part of the populist wing of the party, he’s been compared to Bernie Sanders and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He served as the mayor of Seongnam (12th largest city) and governor of Gyeongi (largest province).
Some key issues
Housing market is hell in Korea right now with home prices increasing by 90% in Seoul since 2017.
️ The Antidiscrimination Law has been in legislative limbo, having been introduced 13 times since 1997 in a country with increasing LGBT visibility.
Feminism has become a lightning rod of a discourse in Korea in the same vein as CRT in America.
Post-COVID economic recovery
Climate change and energy/nuclear policy
affordable education
There are many others, but these are the ones I’m most knowledgeable about.
South Korea is divided into regions: - Capital region: Seoul, Incheon, Gyeongi Province - Yeongnam: Daegu, Busan, Ulsan, N/S Gyeongsang Provinces - Honam: Gwangju, N/S Jeolla Provinces - Hoseo: Sejong, Daejeon, and N/S Chungcheong Provinces - Gangwon Province - Jeju Island
Broadly speaking, this is the regional trend: - Firmly Conservative: Yeongnam - Reliably Conservative: Jeju, Gangwon - Swing: Capital Region, Hoseo - Firmly Liberal: Honam Bc 50% of the Korea lives in Seoul metro, the winner has to win big in the capital & capture Hoseo to win.
Anyway, end of thread. I’m exhausted, but AMA, and I will do my best to explain.
How do the leading candidates attitude differ in geopolitics? I.e. friendly to China, USA, North Korea, etc.?
my guess is that you’ll see more of the same. On the website, he opposes SAAD and wants to reopen tourism and Kaesong and build a North-South Hwy.
He wants to thaw out relationship with China which became strained in 2016 while still being a key U.S. ally.
wants SAAD, push for human rights for our northern brethren through UN and international bodies, normalize relations. Definitely more focus on unification.
But very contrary to what outsiders believe, North Korea isn’t even a top 5 priority for most South Korean voters.
It’s Housing, Employment, Affordable Education, Nuclear Energy, and Crime that seems to be topics that come up over and over again.
The OP is Tony Choi is a seasoned digital creative with a decade of experience based in New York City.
His website:
The South Korean presidential election is today. A few things: 1. The current president is ineligible for reelection as the Korean constitution forbids it: Single term, five years. 2. Plurality wins. There is no ranked choice or runoff. 3. Korea does not have a Vice President
The Ballot: There are 14 candidates on the ballot, but 2 dropped out of the running and endorsed one of the major candidates. They’re assigned a number according to their party’s seats in the National Assembly. 1-5 hold seats, and parties with no seats are listed alphabetically.
THE PARTIES:
The Democratic Partybig tent/ctr-right~ctr left
172 seats
People Power Partyctr-right~right wing
106 seats
Justice Partyleft wing/social democracy
6 seats
The People’s Partyctr-right~ctr
3 seats
Basic Income PartyUBI/ctr-left
1 seat
THE POLLS:
Realistically speaking, only
and have a chance to win. and have only polled in the single digits, and polls at 0. , the perennial weirdo, polls around 2%. The rest of the field sometimes breaks 0.2%.HISTORICAL CONTEXT:
Ever since the transition to democracy, only parties
(big tent/center-right to center-left) and (center-right to right wing) (and their predecessors) have won.1987:
1992:
1997:
2002:
2007:
2012:
(impeached)2017:
currentTHE DROPOUT:
is Charles Ahn, who rose in prominence as a tech CEO in the 90s and 00s. He was in coalition as the current president Moon Jae-In in an iteration of party in ‘14-‘15, but fell out. Last week, he endorsed . After the election, he is merging his party with .THE PROGRESSIVE:
is Sim Sang-Jung, a former labor organizer and 3-term assemblywoman from Justice Party—the only member of the party to represent a district and not from the proportional list. After consistently low polling, she considered suspending her campaign earlier.THE OPPOSITION:
is Yoon Suk-Yeol, a career prosecutor who was the chief prosecutor general (2017-9). Although he’s seen as a political newcomer, never been elected, he went after the current Moon Jae-In administration fiercely as prosecutor general, which won him the primary.THE POPULIST:
is Lee Jae-Myung, member of President Moon’s Democratic Party. Part of the populist wing of the party, he’s been compared to Bernie Sanders and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He served as the mayor of Seongnam (12th largest city) and governor of Gyeongi (largest province).Some key issues
Housing market is hell in Korea right now with home prices increasing by 90% in Seoul since 2017.
️ The Antidiscrimination Law has been in legislative limbo, having been introduced 13 times since 1997 in a country with increasing LGBT visibility.
Feminism has become a lightning rod of a discourse in Korea in the same vein as CRT in America.
Post-COVID economic recovery
Climate change and energy/nuclear policyaffordable education
There are many others, but these are the ones I’m most knowledgeable about.
South Korea is divided into regions: - Capital region: Seoul, Incheon, Gyeongi Province - Yeongnam: Daegu, Busan, Ulsan, N/S Gyeongsang Provinces - Honam: Gwangju, N/S Jeolla Provinces - Hoseo: Sejong, Daejeon, and N/S Chungcheong Provinces - Gangwon Province - Jeju Island
Broadly speaking, this is the regional trend: - Firmly Conservative: Yeongnam - Reliably Conservative: Jeju, Gangwon - Swing: Capital Region, Hoseo - Firmly Liberal: Honam Bc 50% of the Korea lives in Seoul metro, the winner has to win big in the capital & capture Hoseo to win.
Anyway, end of thread. I’m exhausted, but AMA, and I will do my best to explain.
How do the leading candidates attitude differ in geopolitics? I.e. friendly to China, USA, North Korea, etc.?
my guess is that you’ll see more of the same. On the website, he opposes SAAD and wants to reopen tourism and Kaesong and build a North-South Hwy.He wants to thaw out relationship with China which became strained in 2016 while still being a key U.S. ally.
wants SAAD, push for human rights for our northern brethren through UN and international bodies, normalize relations. Definitely more focus on unification.But very contrary to what outsiders believe, North Korea isn’t even a top 5 priority for most South Korean voters.
It’s Housing, Employment, Affordable Education, Nuclear Energy, and Crime that seems to be topics that come up over and over again.
The OP is Tony Choi is a seasoned digital creative with a decade of experience based in New York City.
His website:
And you make the unfortunate assumptions that everything that happens is in linear fashion. Are we to make the assumption that if China raised their level of defense spending to 2% of their GDP that measure wouldn't raise any unforeseen hiccups and problems within the Asian hemisphere and the whole word for that matter, which would and could force the countries within the region to buy into what the Americans have been pushing them to do which is to become the cannon fodders for America. Further impeding the economic independence China is seeking as part of their overall strategic objectives to wrestle China and the whole of Asia away from American hegemony.
If the idea that force or extra bazillion ships are supposed to be sufficient enough to create a deterrence or compliance to China's rivals then Russia wouldn't have been in the mess they're struggling to control at the moment in Ukraine and with the whole of Europe.
The national strategy of China is multifaceted and the PLA is one, albeit a very important facet of their strategy to bring the country back into the forefront. Their war footing and readiness has always been readied against any or all eventualities for Taiwan independence, and not world military domination. Therefore it's inherently DEFENSIVE in nature and not offensive.
I say, bring it on.
I don't think this result is a surprise to begin with. The conservative wing or faction in South Korea is pretty strong, we seemed to have forgotten that if it wasn't for the lady president's fondess of consulting her shaman friend in running her country then she would not have been impeached --- the handling of the sunken civilian ferry wouldn't have been abysmal which also added to the impression of that president being seen as immoral and corrupt.
The outgoing administration of Pres. Moon-Jae? was in my opinion comparable to what Jimmy Carter achieved which was essentially a break from the contentious reign of the Nixon administration culminating into his eventual impeachment, and then his resignation. Like the Americans at that time, they elected Jimmy "Sunday Bible school teacher" Carter to give them some respite but eventually kicked the man out in an ignominious fashion, losing to a former actor, governor, and slick talker Pres. Ronald Reagan.
Nice guy image in democratic politics are for idiots and gullible sheeps.