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Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Captain Invictus posted:

that people would mourn the authoritarian guy who liked slavery? I GUESS you could say it's pretty hosed up he just got got by a homemade boomstick

or is everyone supposed to don their decorum armor and say Oh What A Shame

Im just saying he sucked, but we aren't going to celebrate anyone getting shotgun blasted to the chest with a homemade hand cannon.

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Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

abe sucked but this isnt really worth celebrating because the jp government is 100% going to enact insane crackdowns because of it. a violent murder of a former prime minister damages their 'safest country in the world' image that theyve been coasting on, even if by the numbers they still are by a mile.

and if the guy was like, an otaku or had strong left-wing ties, lol.

the response to this is gonna be way worse than abe still being alive odds are.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
the worst part about this is that it'll have the opposite effect of the assassination of the socialist party's leader in the 60s and japan's government will only get shittier and likely more fash faster

and the gunman was an ex-navy dude, so I'm going to guess he's not an otaku, but who knows

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

More like shinzo ain'tbe

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

the one good thing about the jp government is that while they never implemented anything good they also never really implemented anything bad, it was a very stagnant country politically.

also the lib dems were starting to flounder as covid recovery stalled out, but they're definitely gonna get a bounce from this. granted theyd probably never lose the cabinet but they were unlikely to get any kind of supermajority.

Captain Invictus posted:

and the gunman was an ex-navy dude, so I'm going to guess he's not an otaku, but who knows
the jsdf definitely has a lot of otaku and stuff in it, its an entire market of dudes in their late teens/early 20s with nothing else going on. you serve for a few years, you get a lump sum of about $300k when you retire, which is enough to live on for nearly a decade if you're smart with it. if you get a part-time job at a convenience store or something you can basically just float on it for the rest of your life while only working a few hours a week.

Endorph fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Jul 8, 2022

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

Fight for all that is beautiful in the world

I mean Abe isn't actually dead yet. He could pull through old conservatives are tough bastards

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
yeah but this dude's 41. not impossible he's a nerd, but possibly outside the range a bit

guess we'll see as now that his name's out there we'll undoubtedly get meticulous digging through every aspect of his existence and ~What That Means~ in the next few days

Nyoro posted:

I mean Abe isn't actually dead yet. He could pull through old conservatives are tough bastards
there were people at the scene saying he got a chunk blasted out of his neck.

I don't care who you are, at 67 you're not surviving a hole blasted through your neck in the middle of the street

could be some initial misinformation, but if that was just homemade buckshot in those barrels, he probably got perforated all over. and they had that robot doing chest compressions on him, basically pumping blood for him, which is about as super bad an indicator of good health as possible

Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Jul 8, 2022

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

I should have joined the jsdf

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Stairmaster posted:

I should have joined the jsdf
you would have also gotten money if you hadnt bombed out of the us navy

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

Captain Invictus posted:

yeah but this dude's 41. not impossible he's a nerd, but possibly outside the range a bit



Bro he's younger than gundam

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

lycoris recoil is gonna get soem insanely hasty rewrites if nothing else

Kagaya Homoraisan
Aug 28, 2019

You say, run away
Instead, you get scared
For the way that I feel
Drops out into all this disorder
"former marine jsdf member" could mean a whole host of things and doesnt really rule anything out. at best it makes some things more likely but thats not saying much. like you can call chelsea manning "former intelligence analyst for the us army" and that doesnt actually inform you of what her motives ended up being. more infos gotta come out. the crackdowns are gonna be very real and very bad though.

Tales of Woe
Dec 18, 2004

Endorph posted:

lycoris recoil is gonna get soem insanely hasty rewrites if nothing else

gonna be a bummer if the one show i was excited about this season gets postponed or defanged. would rather the former though

Space Flower
Sep 10, 2014

by Games Forum
im gonna live with the personal reality that they wont do stupid things to shows this season until proven otherwise

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/1545283956941021184

yeah reads like this is 100% a case of an insane rightwinger mad he didnt annex china and korea yet

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Endorph posted:

https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/1545283956941021184

yeah reads like this is 100% a case of an insane rightwinger mad he didnt annex china and korea yet

Well I guess that answers one question

Kwyndig
Sep 23, 2006

Heeeeeey


Is there even a chance he's going to live through this? He's got a neck injury and chest damage from what was probably homemade shot.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
there is zero chance he lived longer than five minutes at best after being blasted twice by a homemade hand cannon, at age 67, in the middle of the street, away from immediate surgical attention

he had that robot that performs cpr on you almost right away, meaning he was already failing right out the gate, he's been super dead but they don't want to say it right away

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

yeah jp news media often takes most of a day to officially announce deaths, even in cases where someones head gets completely destroyed or something. especially if its a major political figure. the lack of an official announcement isnt them hedging their bets just in case, dude 'had no vital signs' and there hasnt been a single update to the contrary for the past two hours.

Brutal Garcon
Nov 2, 2014



Fluffdaddy posted:

Im just saying he sucked, but we aren't going to celebrate anyone getting shotgun blasted to the chest with a homemade hand cannon.

"politicians murdered in the street" is a pretty bad thing to be happening, even if the particular politician sucked.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
https://twitter.com/livedoornews/status/1545328455830863872

yeah he dead lol

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



Slippery Tilde

Srice
Sep 11, 2011

AnoHito
May 8, 2014

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Captain Invictus posted:

that people would mourn the authoritarian guy who liked slavery? I GUESS you could say it's pretty hosed up he just got got by a homemade boomstick

or is everyone supposed to don their decorum armor and say Oh What A Shame

decorum armor

Booky
Feb 21, 2013

Chill Bug


Mix.
Jan 24, 2021

Huh? What?


AlternateNu
May 5, 2005

ドーナツダメ!

Furnaceface posted:

Are there any feel good shows like sweetness & lightning or my roommate is a cat that I can watch?

Usagi Drop. It’s the perfect warm-fuzzy show. Also, preempting the manga comments. Just watch the anime.

Brutal Garcon posted:

"politicians murdered in the street" is a pretty bad thing to be happening, even if the particular politician sucked.

Yeah. This is pretty much the crux of it. I don’t see anything good coming out of this. He was already nominally out of power. It would be like if someone shot Boris in a year after he resigned yesterday.

Scallop Eyes
Oct 16, 2021

Sleng Teng
May 3, 2009


o7

Vizuyos
Jun 17, 2020

Thank U for reading

If you hated it...
FUCK U and never come back

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?


Lol

Brutal Garcon
Nov 2, 2014




The real tragedy is that he died before the inevitable Matt Smith Morbius dance edit.

(Or did he?)

marumaru
May 20, 2013



Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Brutal Garcon posted:

The real tragedy is that he died before the inevitable Matt Smith Morbius dance edit.

(Or did he?)

Post-morbtem analysis

Dangerous Person
Apr 4, 2011

Not dead yet
This is a lot to wake up to but my main takeaway from this discussion is that dubs are good

Jagged Jim
Sep 26, 2013

I... I can only look though the window...

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

Fight for all that is beautiful in the world

Dangerous Person posted:

This is a lot to wake up to but my main takeaway from this discussion is that dubs are good

You're goddamn right they are

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copy
Jul 26, 2007


lmfao

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