Ramsey Khalid Ismael — better known as Johnny Somali, the infamous American streamer arrested in Japan, Israel, and South Korea for his provocative behavior — has been imprisoned in South Korea.
I didn’t know that this guy kissed the Statue of Peace aka the Comfort Woman Statue in Korea for clicks. That’s pretty foul. That statue is dedicated to all of the women who were used as sex slaves by the Japanese in WW2. They have one in the DMZ. The tour guide told us how it depicts women who fought their whole lives for justice for what was done to them. It’s a striking piece of art.
Enjoy prison, you clown.
And to compound what happened to them, they were shunned by society at the end of the war as if they were spoiled goods. It took 50 years or so for the public to understand the depth of what happened to them and to begin showing compassion. The statues exist in part to commemorate what happened to the women, and in part as a sign of remorse for how they were treated by their own communities afterwards.
They have one in the DMZ. The tour guide told us how it depicts women who fought their whole lives for justice for what was done to them. It’s a striking piece of art.
I looked it up and it sits facing the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, a constant reminder to Japan about what they did.
Yes. The forcing of Korean captives into Japanese soldiers’ “comfort women” is a common sore point in geopolitics between both Koreas and Japan. Japan has refused to give a real apology, and occasionally South Korea and Japan have visible clashes over the topic.
You don’t really want to look up everything horrible he did. He belongs behind bars, at least for a while, if only so he can’t earn money doing horrible things.
The video I was unfortunate enough to see showed him preforming a lap dance on the statue, utterly disgusting human being that man is.
It would be really fucking rich… If they live-streamed him doing prison labor for 6 months.
I don’t think I’ve ever watched a streamer before and would happily change that to watch this.
There are some good ones out there, but they’re not the ones with huge followings.
I’d even pay to upgrade him to a north Korean prison labor camp
He’s a slimeball, but no human being deserves that.
I agree, I was hyperbolic
Calling him a human being is pretty generous.
He’d have more publicity than ever in his career
I don’t think that would be a bad thing.
The stockades never should have gone away. (Figuratively speaking, publicly shaming people for being stupid assholes needs to come back)
Consequently, he’s been banned from pretty much all streaming platforms, including Twitch, Kick, Rumble, and Parti.
I’ve heard of one of these.
Rumble is where racists and other assholes tend to go when youtube kicks them out.
Sounds charming
I sadly guarantee you that the second he is released he will continue to be a POS.
But now convicted. Harder to get immigration approval anywhere. Unless he lies, which could lead to longer prison sentences.
I’m all for this outcome, actually.
Exactly.
One he finishes his sentence, he will be deported to the country of his citizenship, and his criminal record will prevent him from further travel to most places.
Kudos to South Korea for doing what Japan wouldn’t. Maybe that’s what happens when the Japanese “justice” system, based on confession instead of evidence, meets a sociopath that lies faster than he blinks.
Japan could have put him in prison without trial until he confessed. They chose not to prosecute, presumably because they didn’t want him in the country for even longer.
Fucking finally. That guy is an utter turd.
Wow, I can think of quite a few more personalities and “influencers” and authors that I’d love to see go to a prison labor camp.
Benny Johnson, LibsOfTikTok, Bannon, Roger Stone, founder of the “Proud” Boys, Curtis Yarvin, Nick Fuentes…
The current US president also counts as a “personality” and “influencer”
I think that most of these guys know what radioactive lightning rods they are, and are savvy enough to at least understand that if they leave the safety of their domestic propaganda apparatus, they’re on their own in an environment likely hostile to them.
This guy’s apparently limited understanding of his role and where his bread is buttered thought he could make the same ass of himself over there as he did back home without consequence, and he was mistaken.
Unfortunately, I think most of those you listed, while dumb in a lot of ways, are savvy enough to know to keep a low profile when they go into enemy territory, which is essentially any place with a population higher than a bus.
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Every single one of these who commence public nuisance or harrassing behavior for publicity should be jailed in any part of the world only to show everyone their actions are shit.
Can any South Koreans with experience of ‘prison with labor’ weigh in? What can he expect to experience in there? How do you think he’ll come out of it? Will he have learned his lesson?
Not South Korean, I was stationed there for a bit and my flatmate was a Korean who went to prison for 14 days or so for some minor infraction.
He came back a bit traumatized by the ordeal. From what he described he could only sit on the ground. He’d wake up, go somewhere, and just sit all day. I think he was fed while sitting too somehow? At the end of the day he went back to bed and repeat it all again when he woke up.
He swore he’d change his ways and not break the law anymore so maybe it worked?
Sounds like it.
How likely is he to run into Koreans very upset with what he did?
A face that needs to hit a baseball bat over and over again.
I guess others already have.
Won’t work. He has to have long term memory of a pigeon.
Depending on the goal, I think it can be very effective.
I’ve never heard of this person before but he sounds like a trash bag.
Not exactly. Trash bags are useful
Fact. Should’ve been “bag of trash”. 🤌🏼
Finally a good news story.
Isn’t this just a guy with mental illness that needs professional help? Not defending anything he’s done, it’s just that I feel like this guy has a list of identifiable issues that can be cured or managed with help and medication
clavicular is up there too.
