Abe Resigns

[rmgill]

[sunday]

[Stuart Galbraith]

10 hours ago, Stargrunt6 said:

Rumint:

 

Meanwhile in China:

 

Calling bullshit on the former, even though im fully on board with wanting to believe it.

As for the latter, im not sure its true but I would not on any level be remotely surprised.

I guess you could say thats a good example of personal cynicism meeting personal bias on my part.

 

[bojan]

People celebrate death of politicians (some of them irrelevant in the last 25+ years) in their own countries. Or should I remind you of "Ding dong witch is dead" and people dancing in the streets when Maggie died, any you defending them?

[Ivanhoe]

Add CBS to the list of haters;

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2022/07/08/cbs-smears-abe-polarizing-right-wing-nationalist-controversial

Quote

Much of the world awoke Friday to news that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had been assassinated by a deranged suspect with a homemade shotgun. Instead of eulogizing Abe and expressing condolences to the Japanese people, CBS Mornings decided it would join the Associated Press and National Public Radio (NPR) in smearing Abe as “a polarizing figure,” “right-wing nationalist, and conservative” whose “political opinions were controversial.”

And the AP as well.

My hot take on their hot takes;

the babbling class has felt disease that a stable capitalist Asian democracy stopped obeisance towards Maoland and showed no deference towards western post-modern values.

 

 

 

[urbanoid]

3 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said:

Add CBS to the list of haters;

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2022/07/08/cbs-smears-abe-polarizing-right-wing-nationalist-controversial

And the AP as well.

My hot take on their hot takes;

the babbling class has felt disease that a stable capitalist Asian democracy stopped obeisance towards Maoland and showed no deference towards western post-modern values.

This.

Edited July 9, 2022 by urbanoid

[urbanoid]

[Stuart Galbraith]

23 hours ago, bojan said:

People celebrate death of politicians (some of them irrelevant in the last 25+ years) in their own countries. Or should I remind you of "Ding dong witch is dead" and people dancing in the streets when Maggie died, any you defending them?

One thing for another country to sneer at a deceased national leader, its quite another for a society that lived under said leader and suffered their more draconian policies ridiculing them. I dont agree with it, but I understand it.

I look at it like this. Abe got people back to work and left his country stronger. Thatcher was happy to keep 3 million of them unemployed as long as it dealt with Inflation, and left structural weaknesses present till this day. Id say there is quite a disparity in approach there wouldnt you say?

Or maybe its just my Communist indoctrination of course....

[lucklucky]

1 hour ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Or maybe its just my Communist indoctrination of course....

Well that could explains it.

[Nobu]

In mourning.

[Stargrunt6]

12 hours ago, urbanoid said:

I had to look up who Yukio Mishima was.  I bet he's popular with the manosphere types.  He sounds like one of those crackpot extreme types that has 100 ideas, 95 are ridiculous but 5 are on to something.  (yeah, I stole that)

[bojan]

Mishima wrote some pretty decent books also.

[futon]

Lonely elderly woman makes uncessarly massive donation to a church (founded in South Korea of all places but took an anti-communist tone in its early years so that's a common ground with conservative Japan), essentially trading away financial well-being for  mental/spiritual well-being. A couple of decades later, the former PM goes looking for votes for his party and makes good words with the church. The son of the financially ruined but perhaps spiritually happy(?) mother views it as giving credibility to the organization in what he probably views as swindling his mother of money and so attempts to take it out on the former PM, tracking where the PM was planned to make a speech which by chance took the former PM to that son's town. Incrediably lax security guards grant an opening to that resentful man. So down goes one of the greatest PMs to a social issue in Japan where old people that have lots of stocked up money but with no idea what to do with and hand it over to whoever gives them good feelings. Not entirely sure but it's what it looks like at the moment.

Edited July 11, 2022 by futon

[TrustMe]

Does Japan have the death penalty for murder?

[Wobbly Head]

Just now, TrustMe said:

Does Japan have the death penalty for murder?

Yes they still do

[futon]

24 year old man from Hyogo prefecture, maybe on a motive inspired via monkey-see-do impression of Abe's assaination, went to a speech event by PM Kishida in Wakayama with two throwing homemade bombs. Video has the first bomb landing near Kishida but didn't go off immediately, luckily. The suspect was tackled down by locals and security with the other bomb in his hand. At which point, the previously thrown bomb exploded. Very white smoky look. Only injury was an officer with a few bomb splinters in his arm. People had moved away a bit at that point.

 

Edited April 15, 2023 by futon

[Stuart Galbraith]

Rum do, glad he was ok.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Think he should consider a career in cricket...