Shinzo Abe Assassination

Who did it?

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War against NEET culture is what killed him
 
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Pyrus said:
Like the outcome of the eventual trial is already obvious. He’s gonna get the death penalty.

The things that are not known are his motives and the effect this will have on Japan going forward.

The last thing anything remotely comparable happened was in 1978 when Aldo Moro, PM of Italy, was kidnapped and murdered by the Red Brigades.
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Eh… Sweden had two PMs assassinated since 1986.

Just saying.
 
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Aib Ld said:
I can't tell how close they are to Abe, but it's also surprising that nobody got grazed either. The first shot missed entirely despite the crowd is almost a whole circle around him.
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You say this but your avatar is an anime girl getting shot by another anime girl. Hmm? 😏
 
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Oxous said:
From a guy who lives in Tokyo and seems to be pretty active in think tank circles. It sounds about right for Japan... and would also explain how the assassin got so close to him.
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It's astounding how poorly protected many world leaders (and former ones, I guess) are. When Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien visited the major electronic games developer I worked at in Vancouver in the late 1990s the RCMP guards were absolute shit. They stood around in shades looking cool, but I was after shaking his hand able to walk right behind the man about a foot away, easily within shanking distance and there were so many others close by I could probably have stabbed or shot him in the kidneys and gotten away in the crowd.

I liked the man so only had that thought in the abstract of how poorly protected he was. No US presidential guard would have allowed me anywhere near that kind of proximity after a handshake, I would have been tackled for even walking around him the way I did Chretien.

Poor Abe.
Sweden’s not G7.

Which is the entirely arbitrary standard I’m using for significant world leaders.
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In context of my story, Canada is a G7 nation. And the PMs Mountie guard sucks.
 
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The Un-Clit said:
It's astounding how poorly protected many world leaders (and former ones, I guess) are. When Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien visited the major electronic games developer I worked at in Vancouver in the late 1990s the CSIS guards were absolute shit. They stood around in shades looking cool, but I was after shaking his hand able to walk right behind the man about a foot away, easily within shanking distance and there were so many others close by I could probably have stabbed or shot him in the kidneys and gotten away in the crowd.

I liked the man so only had that thought in the abstract of how poorly protected he was. No US presidential guard would have allowed me anywhere near that kind of proximity after a handshake, I would have been tackled for even walking around him the way I did Chretien.

Poor Abe.
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What's funny is that political killings were almost the norm in Japanese politics for the longest time and that's only changed recently. Hell, at least one Japanese politician was shot by a Yakuza member for what amounted to a fucking parking ticket. Of course, it's worth considering how much better things were when politicians lived in actual fear of their public.
 
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xQc said:
I love how people on Twitter are like "😰 How could this happen political assassinations never happen in heckin' epic anime land".
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they also had a writer trying to start a coup.
 
keke said:
Is that a good thing, really? I feel like I can’t escape the narrative that this sort of thing is what is partially dooming (exaggeration maybe) the western world. Double the work force which leads to a halving in the value of labor, then less women having kids which is bad in a country (Japan) already having population issues. Not trying to divert the conversation, I just think it’s interesting this is seen as one of his great accomplishments when in the US especially it’s heavily scrutinised recently.

This isn’t my opinion, I’m reiterating it because I’m curious what the counters are, so maybe if you disagree provide one. I mean it’s a fact the value of labor dropped when women entered the workforce, that’s a serious issue.
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Whatever the case regarding the positive and negative effects of such policies, I do admire the japanese stubborn unwillingness to allow niggers into their country in any greater tallies. It's like they have a healthy, instinctual realization that little good will come of it. That they apparently lack viable alternatives so long as they can't get their population to roll around in bed with each other in sufficient numbers is unfortunate, of course.
 
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