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The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

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Re: The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

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Tilo Jung[0] has bee annoying the government spokes persons with uncomfortable questions for years. I read that some other journalists are uncomfortable with his questions since they fear that the government might decide to just not show up anymore (everybody is aware that the Bundespressekonferenz is a quite unique arrangement) but they still let him show up and ask questions. He does really valuable work imo and pu…

> I read that some other journalists are uncomfortable with his questions since they fear that the government might decide to just not show up anymore The thing in his early days was that he asked and "demanded" a proper answer. But often times the politicians don't want to answer to the question stated. Now you can waste everybody's time and ask again and again, without getting an answer (which is useful if you stre…

Yeah I wonder how dumb journalists are sometimes for accepting evasive answers from politicians.

If they don't want to say something they should just say that. I totally agree with this guy tbh.

Re: The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

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As an incidental remark: I find it remarkable that on the surface I now know of three G7 countries / liberal democracies where the PM/President is the (grand)son of a PM/President himself. Bush Sr - Bush Jr Pierre Trudeau - Justin Trudeau Nobusuke Kishi - (Shintaro Abe; FM) - Shinzo Abe [Honorary mention: France with "Le Pen" both father & daughter made it to the second round in the presidential elections (2002; 2017…

One might reach the conclusion that this sort of thing is human nature. Not all natural inclinations are good...

Re: The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

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It's rather painful to see the fantasy rabbithole you got yourself sucked into. Reality isn't spy fiction. Get a grip. Your utter lack of self-awareness and taking pride in ignorance is plain laughable. Have fun with your cooked up conspiracy theory. The Internet has way too many of them already so good luck at getting recognition as an unseen genius.

Reality is often stranger than Fiction. I put forth some plausible scenarios with sources whereas you have no data nor information to backup your simplistic viewpoint (except of course the assassin's say so). There is no nuance in any of your posts which is quite sad actually. As the saying goes; "It is the mark of an Educated Mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it". Perhaps you lack the needed E…

The first step to adopting realism is to stop believing spy fictions and TV shows have relevance to reality. You are a caricature.

Re: The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

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And that name is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church But it’s also in the submission, literally the first sentence…

Yes, but the the poster did the same what the newspapers he mentioned did - he avoided mentioning the religious group by name.

Re: The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

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The Epoch Times is owned by Falun Gong. (They are apocalyptic/UFO/meditation cult, they have been banned in China and, if you believe their claims, organ harvested. I don’t know how much to believe those claims, but China does keep a lot of things with organs weirdly secret. FG are present at every anti-Chinese protest. They also do the Chinese ballet which name I forgot now…. ah yeah Shen Yun) I don’t know any other…

You don't have to trust them , the organ harvesting is well documented and criticized by human rights organizations. Don't make the mistake of being agnostic about their victimization just because they are an usympathetic right wing person cult.

Most people that are criticizing FG here are either natural born Chinese who are taught to hate them or unknowing westerners that have been swayed by CCP propaganda (I am willing to bet there is some on this very thread). I don't see any valid attacks on here other than ad hominem.

Re: The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

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Is it a requirement for every Asian cult to own a few American newspapers? I know of two others

Don't you dare besmirch The Epoch Times. Edit: People don't understand /s. Poe's law strikes again. Also, The Christian Science Monitor does a terrible job monitoring Christian Science and Christianity, but they do alright on science. They're absolutely flying off the handle with their obvious slant towards uncontroversial, neutral, factual reporting. Those bastards.

Wow, CSM, that's a name I haven't thought of in a long time. Over a decade ago while I was still in college I worked for a local web dev shop and I worked on their website (csmonitor.com). I can barely remember what I was doing, minor UI stuff and I think maybe spinning up more sites in their "network". IIRC it was a WordPress multisite (if that's even the right name, back when the "multisite" was a plugin though I think there is some core support now? Not sure).

I knew absolutely nothing about them and more than once I took down parts of their live site by accident (back in the bad old days of FTP-ing files directly to the prod server, there was no "dev"/"qa"/etc). At some point along the way I read a little more about them and was pretty disgusted by it all. Thankfully that work didn't last for very long and I was moved to other projects.

Re: The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

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Reality is often stranger than Fiction. I put forth some plausible scenarios with sources whereas you have no data nor information to backup your simplistic viewpoint (except of course the assassin's say so). There is no nuance in any of your posts which is quite sad actually. As the saying goes; "It is the mark of an Educated Mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it". Perhaps you lack the needed E…

The first step to adopting realism is to stop believing spy fictions and TV shows have relevance to reality. You are a caricature.

Reminds me of a Mark Twain quote: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Re: The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

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Sorry, I don't understand. Why is it uncomfortable to name a piece of software?

Oh no. I failed to include that part in the original comment. The logic was that the name(think “LordVoldemort.exe”) cannot be aired or published, so authorities cannot communicate arrests to the public, which makes it moot to do so, thereby shielding the users.

So would something bad happen if you posted the name..?

Re: The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

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>Freedom means also that you have to earn it Freedom isn't earned, authority is. Freedom is the default nature of man. Those in power who seek to limit freedom, must earn that right. And it can be quickly withdrawn.

> Freedom is the default nature of man There's nothing natural in modern society. The only natural freedom is the freedom to survive.

The lion cared not for our "freedom to survive", indeed I doubt the lions cared about property rights or the 2nd amendment either.

Freedoms, even when they are freedoms FROM a state entity, only exist because society came together, usually in the form of a state entity, to set norms and expectations and promises.

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The Moonies, often represented in America by some unfortunate Korean boy or girl, beg for money at American universities in exchange for food and lodging. It's essentially human trafficking and indentured servitude because they're trapped in a foreign country. So, if see someone who doesn't speak English who shoved a photo montage flip book clipboard of deprivation in front of you, think twice before giving them mone…

NYT did a great article on True World Foods: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sush...

Archive version: https://archive.ph/ZAy6D

Pod version: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sunday-read-the-un...

YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EqHuAJYdr8

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