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Democrats staying in Japan are marching in Tokyo expressing gratitude to Obama as Trump steps in. I wonder what the average Japanese is thinking watching them foreigners with signs?


http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...outgoing-president-barack-obama/#.WIIwx8I76Ed

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Ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump, the incoming U.S. president, the members of Democrats Abroad Japan marched Friday evening to express appreciation to outgoing President Barack Obama.

Despite the chilly weather, about 350 people participated in the event, which was also joined by the Tokyo branch of the Women’s March group, which advocates for the rights of women and sexual and other minorities. The procession marched from Hibiya Park in Chiyoda Ward to Roppongi’s Mikawadai Park.

One marcher, Jennifer Pastore, who has lived in Japan for 10 years, said, “I wanted to show my gratitude as a U.S. citizen for President Obama over the past eight years, and to send a message that our future president should follow President Obama’s example of respecting women and human rights, and working for international peace.”

While many rallies in protest of the incoming president are expected to take place on Friday in the U.S., organizers of the Tokyo march said this event was different.

“We’re not doing this as an anti-Trump protest. The politics of personal destruction has been something that has been occurring too much in the United States,” Tom Schmid, the Chairman of Democrats Abroad, which is the official country committee for Democrats living in Japan, told The Japan Times.

“As Democrats, I think it’s time for us to restructure our party, take a look at the steps that we need to move forward to have people understand our message better than they did over the last election,” he said.

But given that Trump made a number of disturbing remarks about women, some participants stressed the importance of women’s rights, holding signs with messages such as “women’s rights are human rights,” “harassment free world” and “I should be safe wherever I go.”

“I feel the same way that everybody does here. Frustrated and wanting to support every woman around the world,” said a participant who declined to provide her name. She said she found out about the march via the Women’s March Facebook page.

“I think it’s important to be visible and to show what you’re for and what you’re against,” she said.

According to their official website, the Women’s March on Washington rally to take place on the U.S. National Mall on Saturday is aimed at sending “a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s rights are human rights.”

Hundreds of thousands of marchers are expected to participate. Celebrities including Madonna, Katy Perry and Scarlett Johansson have also expressed their intent to participate.

Local events organized by volunteers were incubated in all 50 U.S. states and over 50 countries. In Japan, events were held Friday in Tokyo and Osaka.

The Osaka event attracted about 70 people, mostly American and Japanese residents of Kansai, and had a more anti-Trump tone.

Meanwhile, Ron Harris, a onetime registered Republican who splits his time between Arlington, Virginia, and Tokyo’s Minato Ward, said previously in an email that Republican supporters in Japan are likely “peacefully going about their business and abiding the democratic process instead of disrupting it” during the inauguration, although he added that he will be in Washington D.C. at the inauguration.
 
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PS1gamenwatch said:
Democrats staying in Japan are marching in Tokyo expressing gratitude to Obama as Trump steps in. I wonder what the average Japanese is thinking watching them foreigners with signs?
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They're thinking "fucking foreign pigs, get out".

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The one time you'll hear me say. "Ave. True to Caesar."
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The Legion will take Hoover Dam and you'll like it!
 
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Boundless Emotion said:
You're right but that doesn't break their spirit. In anything it emboldens them even more because they would see it as oppression. I say let them think they can survive without the rest of the U.S., when they obviously can't, and force them to admit they need the Trump administrations help . That would demoralize them beyond belief and I'm always for seeing smug assholes humbled.
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Or the exceptional Californians try pulling a Jonestown, but they fail to an hero themselves because cyanide pills are "racist" or something. Then they give in rendering a dystopian Communist California impossible. The normal Californians continue going on with their lives despite of all of this.
 
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PS1gamenwatch said:
One marcher, Jennifer Pastore, who has lived in Japan for 10 years, said, “I wanted to show my gratitude as a U.S. citizen for President Obama over the past eight years, and to send a message that our future president should follow President Obama’s example of respecting women and human rights, and working for international peace.”
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LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE SOMEONE WHO HAS HAD MINIMAL DIRECT IMPACT ON MY DAILY LIFE AND HAS ONLY VISITED A HANDFUL OF TIMES.
 
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vertexwindi said:
The Legion will take Hoover Dam and you'll like it!
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Legion dog! The NCR will be victorious! New Vegas will be free!
The Great Chandler said:
Or the exceptional Californians try pulling a Jonestown, but they fail to an hero themselves because cyanide pills are "racist" or something. Then they give in rendering a dystopian Communist California impossible. The normal Californians continue going on with their lives despite of all of this.
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I could see an "independent" cali easily devolving into 1984/clockwork orange territory, w/ a bit of the hunger games thrown in where Hollywood/rich actors/etc being district 1 (or whatever the ruling class was called I don't remember).

Kinda sad when you consider that the most optimistic independent California that could exist only happens after the whole world emerged from a nuclear winter.
 
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