Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

Post by davenaff » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 5:17 AM UTC

namecheapTA wrote: post #193

resonious wrote: post #179

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This news about Abe is definitely a bit shocking, but nowhere near as scary as the indiscriminate killings we keep hearing about from the US. If you're a high profile politician, having a target on your back is basically part of the job description. The fact that "being a US resident" is now on more or less the same level, is a bit scary.

Statistics still matter. The odds of dying in a car accident throughout your life are about 1 in 100. If you take out suicide and gang violence, getting shot randomly is much less likely than dying in a car. Yet I go and drive around for fun some days and don't worry one but about it.

Post by cowtools » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 5:18 AM UTC

namecheapTA wrote: post #193

resonious wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This news about Abe is definitely a bit shocking, but nowhere near as scary as the indiscriminate killings we keep hearing about from the US. If you're a high profile politician, having a target on your back is basically part of the job description. The fact that "being a US resident" is now on more or less the same level, is a bit scary.

Statistics still matter. The odds of dying in a car accident throughout your life are about 1 in 100. If you take out suicide and gang violence, getting shot randomly is much less likely than dying in a car. Yet I go and drive around for fun some days and don't worry one but about it.

Post by rayiner » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 5:20 AM UTC

at-fates-hands wrote: post #152

kafkaesque wrote: post #120

A good man? Do people here read anything non-tech related? Shinzo Abe was a world-renown revisionist who tried to turn Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country. Look, you guys are super smart with computers, but stop this absolute nonsense. https://jacobin.com/2017/03/abe-nippon-kaigi-japan-far-right

>> Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country. I was under the impression from friends who taught English there and other family members who worked there in various positions, this is how the country has always been - exclusionary to outsiders, racist and very intolerant to outsiders. Was there a time (I lost track of the country after the first dot com bust in 2001) that the country wasn't like that? I'm genu…

Post by Aeolun » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 5:21 AM UTC

franciscop wrote: post #154

kepler1 wrote: post #86

Pardon me for making an outsider's observation, but it appears to me that in Japan you have either extremely safe and no crime / complete safety and courtesy (most of the time), or 0.1% of the time some guy goes off his rocker and kills many, many people or something like this.

No they don't "kill many people", you do hear about the eventual "knife attack" but the death victims are normally 0-5. In this particular case, which is already an exception because of a handmade gun (apparently) instead of a knife, there's 1 single victim and it's still unknown whether Abe will survive. Edit: as someone living in Japan. Maybe not living here you do only hear about the once in 5-10 years attacks whe…

Post by fomine3 » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 5:22 AM UTC

sofixa wrote: post #169

hunterb123 wrote: post #153

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Would you like to expand your criticism? I see a lot of vague hate for him here and biased links being posted. What exactly is your issue with him? Without using buzzwords like "historic revisionist" or "far-right, ultra-racist". - edit - Mainly people are saying he's racist because he visited Yasukini Shrine that honors the dead from Japan's wars when he resigned to "inform the spirits". It's not like visiting a "Na…

He is, like many other Japanese, hell bent on rewriting Japanese history with a positive spin, completely ignoring or at best downplaying their colonisation atrocities before and during WW2. Wasn't he the one who went to a shrine to a "WW2 hero" who also just happened to be a war criminal? Historic revisionism is an apt description, not a "buzzword".