they send the National Guard to stand around at polling sites, which will not incense the public further and also will not be prone to astronomical amounts of malicious compliance

guy who could never credibly be accused of setting foot on a tertiary education institution: "this is definitely what you see on college campuses"

think it’s a combination. his campaigns got boosts from Putin (even if I don’t think he directly got marching orders/blackmail), he sees a fellow traveler in him, he is still seething about the Ukraine impeachment, and he simply bought the Gabbard/etc geopol fanfic after so much exposure.

“i think in one liners because I like the way they sound : )” -ymh

crucially, he got rotated

the Kakao groupchat effect also has to be considered; e.g. any conscripts that arent in specific fields like intel have free access to their smartphones and an angry family to answer to

nah, they're arguably even worse, it's just that Yoon is that dumb/bad.

and we can specify down to "a limited selection of old school officers in the military", too. the conscripts and vast majority of professionals now have no appetite to kill on Yoon's behalf.