Shinzo Abe Assassination

[Silence of the Troons]

This is probably going to have some rather big political implications, last time a Japanese PM/ex PM was assassinated was in the 1930s

Eh… Sweden had two PMs assassinated since 1986.

Just saying.

It's true that the assassination of then-PM Olof Palme happened in 1986, but Anna Lindh was merely foreign minister at the time and not the PM (though many people expected her to succeed then-PM Göran Persson as the leader of the Social Democrats)

 

[Traz]

Okay world, do Xi Jinping next please

 

[Po's Cootah]

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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"How could this happen terrorist attacks and corrupt religious cults never happen in heckin' epic anime land."

 

[LeChampion1992]

Jesus Christ. Even more fucked up is that this isn't even the first assassination of a Prime Minister of Japan. Last time it happened was about 90 years ago.

People forget that politically speaking the world in the 1930s was in a weird place of chaos. Different ideologies still competed with each other. Considering the last time Japan went down that route it ended with nuclear destruction it makes me wonder what does it end with this time.

The yakuza would have access to proper guns, not this homebrew two-and-done device.

Even then the Yakuza rarely use firearms like other criminal organizations.

Shinzo didn't deserve this fate, but plenty of other politicians do.

The sad part is it's always the good well meaning politicians that face an assassin's bullet. Meanwhile the corrupt seem to get off scot free.

 

[RembrandtCourage]

I just had a hilarious and horrible thought. For us older kiwis does anyone remember the Bush Incident in the 90s where, suffering from illness, George Bush Sr. vomited in the emperor of Japan's lap?

Now imagine a doddering, senile president attending the former PM's funeral, assuming they let him.

EDIT: I am apparently senile as well as old, turns out it was the then PM's lap, not the emperor's.

 

[Socrates]

https://twitter.com/EVostox/status/1545400661914710016

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the fuck is this iPhone accessory

damn the nigga must have maxed out the gun nut perk.

 

[Starved Artist]

RIP Shinzo. You were one of the coolest PMs of your clusterfuck of a country.

Edit: If there's a will there's a way. If a crazy enough person wants you dead, they'll find a way to do it. I hope they give the dude an actual firing squad for this. I know I know, they hang people in Japan but it would be suitable.

 

[Str8Bustah]

With a weapon that looks like it was put together with craft glue and scraps? Sheesh.

remember that the chinese military still used drawstring boxer shorts until as recently as 2010, if I remember correctly, could even be 2015. There's nothing fishy about chinks assuming a 2be4 pipe gun would be standard issue.

 

[Blitzsneed]

https://twitter.com/EVostox/status/1545400661914710016

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the fuck is this iPhone accessory

Holy shit, this is impressive and horrifying.

This dude looks like he's going to shill me some shitcoin.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

I just had a hilarious and horrible thought. For us older kiwis does anyone remember the Bush Incident in the 90s where, suffering from illness, George Bush Sr. vomited in the emperor of Japan's lap?

Now imagine a doddering, senile president attending the former PM's funeral, assuming they let him.

He vomited on the prime minister’s lap, not the emperor’s. It would have been funnier if it was the emperor’s.

 

[immigrant32]

fuck radioactive anime-obsessed japan fuck their vanilla blank faces fuck their obidient cattle mentality.

 

[Oxyjen]

I think the identity and motives of the shooter are going to become more and more important as this story develops and unfolds, particularly in how the response to them will shape Japanese internal politics in the long-run.

Prediction: the shooter was a random nutcase. Nothing very much will happen.

 

[ICametoLurk]

https://twitter.com/TheKavernacle/status/1545428522709258241

According to Greek News Channels Hideo Kojima was the killer.

 

[3-2-1836]

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.

In context of my story, Canada is a G7 nation. And the PMs Mountie guard sucks.

It's because until you elected a homosexual soyboy Canadian leaders were completely irrelevant and not worth the bullet.

Also Chretien was French, the only ones doing assassinations in Canada were Frenchies and they only kill Anglophones.

 

[Fapcop]

Sweden’s not G7.

Which is the entirely arbitrary standard I’m using for significant world leaders.

Fuck your colonialist G7 bullshit!

Sweden is a world power in progressive thought and soft power tranny diplomacy.

I’ll also have you know that Sweden has one of the highest numbers of white women getting blacked in the world per the UNs BBC index.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

This is terrible, Abe was a good man.

I remember him in this photo from G7 way back. It got famous because of Trump's defiant body language. But most people overlooked Shinzo was right there, by his side, mimicking his body language.

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He really was a true friend and ally to America.

I'm going to be honest here. I ship it. Trump x Abe is my OTP.

 

[ICametoLurk]

Response from the Japanese Communist Party

https://twitter.com/OliverJia1014/status/1545425079969779715

 

[Dr. Silvestrechu]

What are Japanese prisons/jails like and is this guy gonna get tortured in there for killing a prominent politician? Corrupt? Safe/nice? Death penalty? Idk anything about Japan.

Japanese pigs are notorious for beating the shit out of suspects during interviews, part of the reason they have such high conviction rates. No idea what the prisons are like, but I'm hoping Japan brings back the death penalty for new convictions just for this guy.

 

[Socrates]

Really funny watching American trannies with 0 understanding of Japanese culture or politics outside dumb anime memes criticize Abe for his war crimes position. Like nigga if you don't at MINIMUM downplay the fuck out of that shit you will never win any important elections.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Just after the incident happened and before Abe was confirmed deceased, all the top headlines on Yahoo! JAPAN were on it.

• 安倍元首相 銃で撃たれ心肺停止
• 安倍氏容体「かなり生命危ない」
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• 安倍氏銃撃 昭恵氏を乗せた車出発
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• 最新情報 安倍元首相が銃撃される
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• 松野氏 涙目で「蛮行、断固非難」
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• 与野党「暴力絶対に許されない」
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• 銃撃 有権者に衝撃「恐ろしい」
  NEW6
• 現場映像 安倍元首相銃撃の瞬間
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Former Prime Minister Abe Shot with a gun and cardiopulmonary arrest
Mr. Abe's body "quite life-threatening"
Abe's shooting car departure with Akie Abe
What's New Former Prime Minister Abe is shot
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Mr. Matsuno "Brutal, decisive blame" with teary eyes
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Ruling and opposition parties "violence is absolutely unforgivable"
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Shocking voters "terrifying"
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On-site footage The moment of shooting by former Prime Minister Abe