Friday, July 18, 2025

Story Post: Killing Erupts Violently in Autocratic Nation-state

18 May 1980
Gwangju, South Korea — A series of student-led demonstrations has just erupted against the military dictator Chun Doo-hwan. The ROK is actively suppressing the protests, and has been firing on the students. At least 165 people are confirmed dead, with the death toll rising every hour.

posted by JonathanDark at 18 Jul 2025 23:27:00 UTC Comments (5)

Comments

Bucky:

19-07-2025 01:33:53 UTC

Score 3

I’m giving a bonus for avoiding proper nouns in a round where it was very difficult to do so, but this backronym could stand to be a lot less vague about which historical event it refers to.

aria: she/they

19-07-2025 03:22:22 UTC

Score 4 for no proper nouns.

Clucky: he/him

19-07-2025 04:56:42 UTC

Score 2 the lack of proper nouns requires this to lean too much on the flavor text

Josh: he/they

19-07-2025 07:52:14 UTC

Score 1. Sorry, but this could refer to any of a thousand different events. The lack of proper nouns is nice but that’s not the entire actual objective here.

Kevan: he/him

19-07-2025 08:09:09 UTC

Score 2 for the vagueness, would have preferred some proper nouns.

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