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Evidently not, so what am I deservedly getting here?

Sleep on it.

Sounds like you've just tried to sound tough online in an incredibly daft way. Don't think a night's sleep is going to give me any insights there.

Feel free to let me know whenever, or just continue with the vague meaningless statements, whatever floats your boat really.

...or else

So why should we care if bill doesn't comment publicly? Or is there some link to not commenting to the press and caring.

Nick_h is a grade A prick and should have been banned years ago. Don't @ me.

Hey daddio grading has changed, so it is a 9-1 scale. So you mean grade 8 prick.

Does that make me a grade 9 prick.

Why so angry nick?

Have you slept on it, and are you at least slightly aware how deranged and angry your posts appear to be?

If something else is going on in your life then fair enough, but keep that anger under control.

There's nothing here bannable, but you just come of as an angry jerk, a bit deranged, and like the blood veins on your head are about to burst... It's not a good look, I'm pretty sure you have more capacity for joy than you're currently showing.

nick_h clearly needs some rest, as that escalated far too quickly.

Let's not pretend that there wasn't an inference that she was white and racially motivated from a number of commentators on here. Which all went by without comment.

For me the new there is a newsworthy element as I'd be very cautious of believing any naming on social media. Even more so if that name has any connotations of being a non-traditional "foreign sounding" name. It seems perfectly likely that right wing agitatiors would try and stoke division wherever they can. They have form.

I think it was an odious thing to do, but I also thoroughly dislike public shaming and any type of doxing that is now part and parcel of social media.

Let's not pretend that there wasn't an inference that she was white and racially motivated from a number of commentators on here. Which all went by without comment.

Exactly so.

Nick can get strung out and aggressive, but I think he has documented some of the challenges he has on here that might contribute to that at times. On balance I am usually interested in reading his contributions.

South Korea. Does anyone have a granular understanding of current events that they’d care to share please?

What I’ve read in the news is that the president tried to declare martial law alleging North Korea was behind SK parliamentarians who wished to topple the government. His attempt at martial law wasn’t successful as Parliament voted to suspend him later that week, and arrest warrants were issued for collaborators, including his highly loyal minister of the armed forces who was previously head of the presidential security forces.

This week, prosecutors and police tried to action an arrest warrant against the (suspended but still sitting) president at his compound, but were thwarted by hundreds of soldiers and presidential guards. Additionally, thousands of pro and anti presidential protestors have set up camp near the presidential coumpound.

Both sides claim the other is acting unlawfully to assume extraordinary control over the country. In most other countries this would look like things were on the verge of civil war or severe political disruption, but the markets are steady(ish) and political commentators aren’t panicking.

What’s actually going on??

As I understood it, he declared martial law after he lost a budget vote. The opposition party controls the legislature and he didn’t have any other way to try to overrule them. But he still has enough support for a bunch of people to volunteer to be human shields against the arrest warrant.

Thanks, that’s important and I’d forgotten it.

From afar it looks concerning that soldiers and presidential guards are forcefully impeding due legal process in the shape of a court-issued arrest warrant being actioned by duly appointed police officers and prosecutors (there was a “scuffle” between police and soldiers during the attempted arrest). The president’s lawyer claims the warrant is unlawful but, in a state with rule of law, that wouldn’t typically justify the kinetic use of the state’s armed forces to prevent the state’s police forces from following a domestic court’s orders.

In LATAM or Africa this would seem like a series of huge escalations but every political culture is different and, as CNN put it, “South Korea has a colorful history of physical confrontations in its National Assembly” which would be extraordinary elsewhere.

Yes that’s true. But in contrast to Lat Am, this isn’t a populist radical leftist group looking for massive sociopolitical reform vs the forces of conservativism, it’s a centre left elected party against an unpopular president with a wafer thin majority playing the anti-communism card like it’s still the 1960s-1980s. It’s worrying that enough of the armed forces buy into his anti-communist rhetoric, but I don’t think the financial markets expect anything significant to change in terms of economic policy regardless who wins out the current impasse.

Personally I think that’s a pretty worrying sign for how much would have continued as normal if Jan 6 had been successful (and Trump’s economic policies a bit closer to the mainstream).

There's also the banal fact that he's using extreme measures in trying to derail his wife's corruption investigations. Not a million miles removed from Netanyahu committing genocide to keep himself and his wife out of prison.

Yes very true

Did I also read that there hasn't been a South Korean president that has left office in a standard way since the Korean war began, or something similar?

Well the norths dictators have an interesting record.

I was angry because I take unfounded accusations of racism very seriously. I'm puzzled that others don't. I think you're wrong to criticise me but not my accusers. In my view their smears were far worse than the replies I wrote. The abuse I flung at them was richly deserved.

They tried to smear me because they're too lazy and stupid to consider the context. Their first instinct is to have a pile-on. It's playground bullying. I won't accept it and I don't see how you can ask me not to be angry.

I'll go back to being joyful now.

Let's not pretend that there wasn't an inference that she was white and racially motivated from a number of commentators on here.

That was the kneejerk reaction here and on social media. But there's also a great deal of racial prejudice in the UK between the south asian and afro caribbean communities.

If the mother is a Sikh her anger may be nothing to do with race but all about family honour, i.e. wanting her daughter to be a virgin until she marries another Sikh.

Maybe include that sort of rationale and/or additional context in replies instead of defaulting to just calling people a stupid cunt right of the bat then. Could've saved us all a bunch of time if you didn't insist on acting like a petulant child.

Actually it was you who 'right off the bat' started with this: "She's an Indian Sikh which may explain why she's a racist" Riiight

If the name is accurate she's a British Indian Sikh

Why did you even include this phrase, unless trying to imply some assumption based on ethnicity.

Because of the context, i.e. the discussion of this case upthread.

Seriously? You’re going to start digging the same hole 24hrs later?
Just go have a cup of tea and leave the internet alone for a day or two.
I don’t know you, have no skin in the game but you’re really not coming across well here.

I'm replying to mmcarthy and jackbepablo. Ask them why they're digging the hole.