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An anecdote where I realized what kind of people the "New Lee Jaemyungs" actually are

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It was about a year after the Itaewon tragedy.
At that time, I was chasing after rallies held all over Seoul every weekend, declaring that I would fight against the Yoon Suk-yeol administration. Since my main activity back then was attending rallies, I naturally moved around in groups with comrades and friends I met on the streets.
Moving between countless rallies—such as the Candlelight Action's rally for the resignation of Yoon Suk-yeol, street struggles hosted by the Democratic Party, civic group rallies against the discharge of Fukushima wastewater, construction union anti-government struggle rallies, and the KCTU general solidarity rallies—I naturally ended up attending the memorial services for the 1st and 2nd anniversaries of the Itaewon tragedy.
Since I attended both the 1st and 2nd anniversaries, I don't know exactly when it was, but it was an event where Lee Jae-myung himself attended the memorial service.
At that time, I had business in the provinces, so as soon as I arrived in Seoul, I rushed to the front of Seoul City Hall to attend the memorial. Unfortunately, the friends I used to attend rallies with did not show up, so I went alone.
Everything was fine up to that point. It was the transitional season moving into winter, and my body was tired from long hours of driving, compounded by the onset of a cold. It was difficult to stay at the memorial service until the sun went down, but I did not leave my spot and stayed until the end, and the memorial service concluded without any issues.
The problem began after the memorial service, when I got home and checked my KakaoTalk group chat. I realized that several of the friends I used to attend rallies with had actually attended that memorial service.
As it turned out, as soon as Lee Jae-myung's speech began, these friends were excitedly taking photos and videos, and as soon as the speech ended, they immediately left the venue to go drinking.
Well, people can be like that. No matter how massive a national tragedy occurs, if it has no direct connection to me, even if the state observes a mourning period, I might not be able to fully empathize with that sorrow on a personal level. I am the same; I didn't shed tears or perfectly empathize with the sorrow of the bereaved families.
However, if the roles were reversed and it was me or my family who were victims of the tragedy, I would desperately crave the comfort and empathy of every single citizen. That is why I participated in that memorial service—to add even just one more person to the count—and why I stayed in my spot until the very end of the event.
But those friends were different. They had no regard for the sorrow of the victims and their bereaved families; they only used the memorial service to satisfy their own selfish desires because Lee Jae-myung, whom they like, was coming. As if the event had served its purpose, they left the moment Lee Jae-myung departed.
I believe that as a human being, one should never engage in such bullshit.
You don't have to participate in a memorial service. You don't have to empathize with the pain of the bereaved families, and you don't have to care.
But at the very least, if you are a human being, you should not use a memorial service for a national tragedy as a tool to satisfy your own selfish interests.
If a human being cannot distinguish time and place and just shits everywhere, they are worse than a maggot.
Even a lowly maggot is a living creature that contributes to cleaning the world by decomposing the shit left by others. If a human being, while attending a memorial service for a tragic disaster, acts like that just to satisfy their trivial selfish desires, it is an undeniable fact that such people have no value in living in this world.
After that day, even our comrade friends split into factions and scattered. In that way, along with a small number of friends who shared my views, I stayed through the moment of the Yoon Suk-yeol administration's downfall and the birth of the Lee Jae-myung administration.
As time passed, during that controversial and problematic Democratic Party national convention where Kim Min-seok became the party leader, I heard news about those women who went to the Itaewon memorial service just to take photos of Lee Jae-myung and go drinking. They had become exactly what I call "New Lee Jae-myungs."
"New Lee Jae-myungs" are that kind of people. They are low-IQ idiots who cannot distinguish time and place, who only want to satisfy their selfish love for Lee Jae-myung by shitting all over the place, while having no interest in actual world news.
Humans who are worse than maggots, using even the sorrow of others to satisfy their selfish desires for Jae-myung—a group made up of such people is exactly what the "New Lee Jae-myungs" are.

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