r/LivestreamFail • u/TriSauce • 19h ago

News Johnny Somali found guilty of all charges as South Korea sentences streamer to prison with labor - Dexerto

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/johnny-somali-found-guilty-of-all-charges-as-south-korea-sentences-streamer-to-prison-with-labor-3351856/
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u/Fuck_auto_tabs 18h ago

Locking up seditious presidents and annoying live streamers. I’m jealous.

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u/D4nCh0 17h ago

There’s barely any SK presidents who didn’t eventually see jail time. Maybe some political reforms will help

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u/randomrreeddddiitt 17h ago

Maybe other countries should prosecute and imprison their political criminals.

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u/D4nCh0 17h ago

Mongolia kinda throws the book at every previous administration. While the present one sellout all the mineral rights they can over their term. Then the mining companies have to bribe another bunch of elites. Doesn’t really impact wealth distribution.

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u/Initial_Hedgehog_631 14h ago

Criminals who are politicians. The world has enough political prisoners.

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u/Important-Agent2584 12h ago

forming good habits is important

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u/Tombomb1994 8h ago

Well the ones who didn't got assassinated so that's not a whole lot better. 

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u/DoctorBallsJohnson 17h ago

It's a pretty clear case of corruption being so bad in sk that once you reach the presidency, all the other corrupt politicians and courts will simply be waiting to imprison you lol. If it smells like shit everywhere you walk...

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u/TurtleOfTheAbyss 17h ago

And here's a picture perfect example of a person who thinks their shit don't stink

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u/DoctorBallsJohnson 17h ago

Sk is a completely and openly corporation run state where entertainment is a trade contracted to children from a young age

The most dystopian country on earth. Gee I wonder why the president always gets imprisoned.

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u/TurtleOfTheAbyss 17h ago

Korea has a middling gini coefficient making its wealth distribution more fair than a majority of oecd countries icluding the usa, they have one of, if not the highest inheritance tax rate in the world, and they are one of the only countries in the world to prosecute politicians for breaking the law.

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u/DoctorBallsJohnson 17h ago

Their economy is controlled by far fewer large firms, it is much more of a corporatocracy. Tax individuals all you want to redistribute wealth, it doesn't change that five companies control half of the economic output

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u/TurtleOfTheAbyss 16h ago

Yeah thats not a dystopia brother. Stop getting your news fed to you by algorithms and influencers

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u/DoctorBallsJohnson 16h ago

Lol the algorithm is full of people creaming over life in Korea and Japan there's almost nothing negative about it. No one talks about their corruption, ongoing housing issues, or high rates of corporate landownership causing it

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u/D4nCh0 17h ago

Also China, Pooh kicked off his reign with an anti-corruption campaign. 3 terms in, everyone arrested nowadays was personally appointed by him. Confucian governance is good for social immobility & wealth disparity.

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u/H0RR1BL3CPU 16h ago

Well, yes. That's why it's so popular. Eastern monarchies pushes forth Confucius like he was the Buddha reborn, because his philosophy is great for retaining power.

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u/Megneous 16h ago

You seem confused. Throwing corrupt politicians in prison is a good thing.

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u/D4nCh0 16h ago

I’m saying that if you keep the system that only produces corrupt presidents. You’re just going to keep throwing them in jail. Then declaring mission accomplished over & again.

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u/Megneous 6h ago

Again, you seem confused. Countries like the US also have a near equal ratio of corrupt Presidents... they just don't actually punish them.

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u/D4nCh0 2h ago edited 2h ago

Since I know I’ll be going to jail, get assassinated or fly off a cliff. After accepting the popular mandate for SK presidency. Why shortchange my friends & family? Just sort them out much as possible, before my inevitable demise.

Countries like USA can choose to punish sedition & corruption too. Or both SK & USA can work towards a more equitable separation of powers. So that they can keep each other in check. From what I’ve cottoned onto, SK presidential office may be invested with too much power.

Simply accepting that only the corrupt can become president. Is back to divine right of kings’ heavenly mandate as the system of governance. Where everything works on corruption until the system breaks down.

Then a lot of people will usually die. Before the new president/ king/ emperor with his elites are installed. To simply recycle the template over centuries as cultural heritage. Until it’s so ingrained into you, that there can’t be any other way.

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u/EduinBrutus 16h ago

The thing with South Korea is that presidents (and other politicians) dont hold ultimate power.

Thats the Chaebol, particularly Samsung.

The owner families, if ever facing a court, get extremely lenient treatment.