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[Japan Times] former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assassinated

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Commodore, Jul 7, 2022.

  1. Commodore

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    Too many doors in Japan
     
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    Man 2022 is getting crazier and crazier and making 2020 look pretty pedestrian at this rate.
     
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    Japan needs better gun control
     
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    Absolutely wild. This is a country with few guns and little political instability.

    My guess is its an ultra-nationalist or North Korean
     
  8. TheJuice

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    Stay classy lol.

    Also pretty telling that its nuts for a shooting in Japan to occur when we had a congresswoman shot in Arizona and it was considered the price of freedom or whatever.

    That said, Im not giving mine up first lol. Better tried by 12 than carried by 6
     
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    That is pretty wild
    Crime is a thing in Japan but you rarely ever hear of actual shootings
     
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    That and most Japanese politics is coalition bickering between people for cabinets. Abe was "radical" by Japanese standards but pretty tame compared to everywhere else.

    Hence, I think its a North Korean operative or a mentally ill ultra nationalist from their fringe far right
     
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    Blame it on final fantasy x
     
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  12. Aware

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    We'll see. Seems they caught the guy
    Abe and the LDP moved the country towards that far right tbh but yea maybe
     
  13. TheJuice

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    oh by Japanese standards, yes. But a lot of his more radical stuff like allowing the SDF to deploy didnt happen. Most of his "radical" policies were economically
     
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    It is crazy how little you hear about the Japanese right in the west.

    I get the language barrier and the fact that japan is great at projecting only the "cool japan" thing but those are some real wild boys in the Japanese right
     
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    Most of the world has a serious far right issue Theres Italian soccer clubs who throw bananas on the field and wave swatstika flags.

    Most Japanese people are convinced the war crimes they committed were a lie
     
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    When people talk abour "lets end globalism" lets make the US isolationisy...

    the amount of wars that would vreak out good god

    the US has cobbled together countries that hate each other into peaceful trade.

    Were not perfect but abseence a Pax Americana would be mass genocide
     
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    ex sdf
    bet it was some far right nut
     
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    Nothing is impossible anywhere on this earth, but the fact that it's so rare is the fruit of their gun/political culture.
     
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    Condolences...
     
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    Looks to be a homamade gun and only single shot

    [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
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