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Re: (partially) 1: looks homemade https://twitter.com/Mesuiki_aaaaa/status/1545247925990993920...
Any pics of it that dont require a Twitter account?
always just replace twitter.com in URL with nitter.net or nitter.cz
Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody
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Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody
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I haven't read an in depth dive of Japan's internal politics but he helped my country with some major investments, which has in turn helped some of my close relatives get good well paying jobs. Also, generally I have a lot of respect for Japanese people in general due to having met and worked with some people from there.
That being said his historical revisionism seems like a damn shame. I personally didn't know about that. However, I don't take all of the claims made by Jacobin seriously. Even here it tries to paint Japan trying to create it's own army as a bad thing when it is clearly in response to territorial aggressiveness from China.
China, Russia, and North Korea. All three have nukes and untrustable.
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Noah (who recently praised Taiwanese politicians for the extremely materialistic point of them sometimes being cosplayers) is not much of a deeper thinker than most stuff in Jacobin. Abe is in Nippon Kaigi. He is a nationalist. He pushed for revising the constitution to remove the purely self-defense nature of the SDF. This is not a popular idea in Japan. It is barely a popular idea in his party! The guy also liked t…
He’s a nationalist (who isn’t?) and he wants to re-arm Japan. Sounds like the right approach in a world where China is digesting Hong Kong, is eying Taiwan menacingly, and where the US is showing clear intention to abandon its role as world police.
Someone's political ideology is their political ideology, you might think it makes sense given the context but (for example) socialist economic policies don't become less socialist by being popular or making more sense or less sense in the economic context.
You might think that Abe's positions are correct or the norm, I don't believe that changes the judgement that he's a pretty heavy nationalist. Nationalists are willing to torpedo economic relationships with neighboring nations out of national pride. Loads of people are not nationalists!
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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.
Guns are now the leading cause of death for people under the age of 24 in the US (and have been for several years). Yes, they exceed motor vehicle deaths. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/05/25/guns-are...
Now do the stats for people under 24 without gang affiliation... It's incredibly misleading for the Economist to tie that stat to Uvalde when in reality, it's 16-24 year old gang members shooting each other over the drug trade and personal beefs.
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#295And after debating gun violence all week with my friends in the wake of the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park I made an example of Japan and it’s low gun violence. Now this happens. Crazy stuff still happens in Japan but it’s usually a knife or ax. But guns and Abe are on another level.
This argument that "look at the gun controlled state" after a shooting is such a dumb one to make. How many mass shootings happen in Japan? How many kids are killed in Japanese schools because someone barged in with a military grade assault weapon, tactical gear and unlimited ammo? How many gun killings per capita happen in Japan? How many people per capita in Japan have gun violence as a priority as compared to the…
Been living in Japan and US for a while.
There are substantial cultural differences in those countries. Even if tomorrow you would allow any weapon in Japan it won't change anything. There will be no school shootings (at substantial amount). Japanese people conditioned differently.
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The sad part is that it’s much more likely Americans would turn their guns on each other in some sort of civil war type situation; eg the Democrats/Republicans think the Republicans/Democrats stole the election, and an armed uprising is the only way to give power back to the right party.
That’s the whole problem behind the right to bear arms. One person’s fight for liberty is someone else’s coup.
That's also the whole point of the right to bear arms.
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Ah, didn’t realize that he was still party leader.
I don’t think he is an official part leader but more of an unofficial faction leader. Japan is pretty much a one party state and it’s the factions within the party that determine the direction of the country.
How is multiple factions in 1 party meaningfully different from having multiple parties?
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This argument that "look at the gun controlled state" after a shooting is such a dumb one to make. How many mass shootings happen in Japan? How many kids are killed in Japanese schools because someone barged in with a military grade assault weapon, tactical gear and unlimited ammo? How many gun killings per capita happen in Japan? How many people per capita in Japan have gun violence as a priority as compared to the…
Been living in Japan and US for a while. There are substantial cultural differences in those countries. Even if tomorrow you would allow any weapon in Japan it won't change anything. There will be no school shootings (at substantial amount). Japanese people conditioned differently.
Totally agree. But give every Japanese a weapon. And then wait a few decades.
Can you guarantee me that the culture will hold back gun violence?
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#299A 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
> turn Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country.
Abe din't do anything like that. Japan was always ultra-right and racist, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Certainly he was a controversial figure but nothing justifies this kind of violence.
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I had never heard of the Sanrizuka Struggle. It feels crazy and sad to learn that the airport I arrived at for my move to Japan was on land to be used without consent of the local residents... And I had absolutely no idea of it. Thank you.
Narita is pretty much why all sizable international airports in Japan since then have either been converted from military bases or built in the sea on artificial islands, because neither involves land appropriation. And Narita still has a farm that wasn't appropriated in the middle of it. https://i.redd.it/zrftut6xrws31.jpg What's interesting is that flights are actually now relocating back from Narita to Haneda, whi…
Haneda has added capacity by massive reclamation of land, allowing it to build new runways.