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I've seen several conflicting reports about the guy's motives from Japanese media. I wouldn't be surprised if he isn't just making poo poo up as he goes, or maybe just entirely insane. I imagine we're going to have to wait a while, maybe a few days, to get any kind of solid information.
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CNN interviewee (a rep from the woodrow wilson center?) said the shooter was former SDF. But she also said something along the lines of "where he got the gun from" and I'm just thinking, you mean japanese home depot? She either doesn't know it was homemade or thinks he paid someone good money for that hand cannon.
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Jul 8, 2022 14:10
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I have seen way worse in the crimegun thread than what that guy used.
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Jul 8, 2022 14:18
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Clearly not the worst design. Someone get that man a job at Hi-Point.
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Jul 8, 2022 14:21
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Clearly not the worst design. Someone get that man a job at Hi-Point. Electric ignition double barrel? That's a KelTec man.
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Jul 8, 2022 14:25
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I think Remington might be the only manufacturer to dabble in an electronic primer system. Remington: The 1978 Dodge of Guns.
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Jul 8, 2022 14:33
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https://twitter.com/Srirachachau/status/1545300311815831552?s=20&t=tEhPN5M3qtNsfPSGujpFYA
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Jul 8, 2022 14:40
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A.o.D. posted:I have seen way worse in the crimegun thread than what that guy used. Somewhere a Brazil and Filipino Khyber gunsmith is looking at that picture and having a tear in their eye, like the Italian dude playing the Native American in the littering commercial. Abe was good for bilateral relations and in general while doing some things that were very dumb and counterproductive like with the Republic of Korea*, while generally ignoring things like the Imperial Household (because if they wanna play Japanese crusader Kings with their monarch that’s fine with me), otherwise I can’t complain too much. I’m also totally aligned with the idea of revamping article 9 completely. It wasn’t born so much out of a bad concept, by the kind of idealist US lawyers who drafted the postwar Japanese Constitution, it clearly was both productive in curbing enthusiasm for war, but was way too stringent. I mean Germany was constrained in certain actions, but otherwise has and continues to have a regular military. So dropping the S is fine with me. *Which is bad and pointless and only helps the PRC, which benefits neither Japan or the ROK in the long run.
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Jul 8, 2022 14:58
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Here's a funny moment with "current crop of tory who thinks they can get pm" Steve Baker https://twitter.com/Procure4Health/status/1545159068259684353?t=XrPIwFVDtzEI8x5VXQHGOg&s=19
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Jul 8, 2022 15:29
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Also in news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD3n3GM3Z_0
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Jul 8, 2022 15:31
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No Rosario though.
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Jul 8, 2022 15:36
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Ummm nah I’m good. I will say the new Beavis and Butthead do the Universe was incredible. So goddamn side splittingly funny. I have to imagine if you’re high it’s even funnier, and the best part is it is exactly like Beavis and Butthead it as you remember it in all the best ways. Like seriously everyone should watch it, also possibly while high.
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Jul 8, 2022 15:38
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Eej posted:Single handedly ruined relations with South Korea by undermining a formal apology about IJA sexual slavery by going to the Japanese parliament and saying there's no evidence that women were cooerced into being sex slaves for the Japanese army. https://twitter.com/onlineman420/status/1545407331403501570?t=hTTsAjdWE5qGw1kiO6RSOg&s=19 Marshal Prolapse posted:Somewhere a Brazil and Filipino Khyber gunsmith is looking at that picture and having a tear in their eye, like the Italian dude playing the Native American in the littering commercial. Well, today I learned something new (not that it's terribly surprising) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody
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Jul 8, 2022 15:53
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The revanchism was personal, Abe's grandpa ran occupied Manchukuo and then was installed as PM in the 50s because Eisenhower was all "oh yeah we can work with this dude" He was basically Japan's Dubya
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Jul 8, 2022 16:02
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Late to the party but lol Abe got Shinzo'wned
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Jul 8, 2022 16:28
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Is anyone else having the Ukraine thread gently caress their browser this morning?
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Stultus Maximus posted:Is anyone else having the Ukraine thread gently caress their browser this morning? I'm shitposting from my work shitter so on the phone app. Working fine through there.
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bird food bathtub posted:I'm shitposting from my work shitter so on the phone app. Working fine through there. Huh. Works fine on phone app for me too but kills desktop browser. It seems to be one of the twitter embeds. As a non-computer toucher, I suppose I'll just wait until it rolls over to a new page. Thanks.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Is anyone else having the Ukraine thread gently caress their browser this morning? Was getting weird glitches on some GBS threads this morning but not all of them
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shame on an IGA posted:The revanchism was personal, Abe's grandpa ran occupied Manchukuo and then was installed as PM in the 50s because Eisenhower was all "oh yeah we can work with this dude" If you want to learn more about Abe's grandpa and the creating of the LDP in Japan, this is a really good source. https://isaacmeyer.net/2018/06/episode-244-the-summer-of-rage-part-1/ https://isaacmeyer.net/2018/06/episode-245-the-summer-of-rage-part-2/
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Jul 8, 2022 18:23
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Ummm nah I’m good. Honestly, I thought it'd be good, but the amount of times it had me straight cracking up was amazing.
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I'll probably watch Beavis and Butthead later today, was holding off to see if a friend wanted to watch it too, but he has my paramount info anyhow. I'll probably watch Clerks 3 when it turns up free on Tubi. Seems like an appropriate expectation for where it will land after a few months of being charged for on streaming.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Honestly, I thought it'd be good, but the amount of times it had me straight cracking up was amazing. I liked with the 2011 reboot when they’d riff on reality shows they had the challenge of Beavis & Butthead being smarter than the participants
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Honestly, I thought it'd be good, but the amount of times it had me straight cracking up was amazing. It was and also it was a good sci Fi movie in general. But my god the jokes were just on point and the funny and also I loved the cameos in the court scene. The cool part was they resisted the urge to "adult content it up" which shows just how good the original model was. A brilliant thing is just how no one picks up on anything (until the very end) and constantly thinks their talikng about non sex related things. Also "eat rear end" 
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Jul 8, 2022 21:18
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https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1545440070156648450 https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1545517590860255232 quote:The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will expand access to abortion care through medication.
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Jul 8, 2022 22:38
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what a fuckin idiot https://twitter.com/evanmcmurry/status/1545522626478620675 Someone's gonna be paying billions of dollars and the only winner will be the lawyers 
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golden bubble posted:https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1545440070156648450 It took them two full weeks (over nine weeks if you count from the leaked draft) to come up with that 
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facialimpediment posted:what a fuckin idiot Uh, can't he not actually do this?
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Guess I might as well post this for anyone who wants to know more about who Abe was Shinzo Abe first came to prominence by promoting a weird right wing conspiracy that the mainstream media and even most members of the LDP (Japanese conservative party) thought was absolute bullshit, but turned out to be 100% correct. The theory, which was actually completely right, was that North Korean agents had kidnapped 13 Japanese nationals in the late 70s and early 80s, including a 13 year old girl. Like there were literally North Korean submarines kidnapping random people in Japan for no reason. His first real presence on the world stage was convincing then-prime minister Koizumi Junichiro to walk out of economic negotiations with North Korea unless they returned the kidnapped citizens, and then when North Korea let them leave to see family, he convinced the prime minister to not cave into North Korean demands and go back on their promise to return them back to Korea, because they are Japanese citizens. This makes the far right love hime because he is super tough on North Korea, and gets him into positions where he could be on committees at the Education Ministry where he helped select which history textbooks could be used in schools. That's why Japanese school history books in the 90s were super hosed. Abe doesn't believe comfort women were real, war crimes committed by Japan were both Cool and Good, and everything great that happened in Korea is actually Japanese, and he was a head of the Education Ministry choosing the school history books. As a result of this, Abe is super popular to the far right faction of the LDP, and his place at the Koizumi cabinet makes him popular to his sub-faction, leading to him being elected president of the party and then to the prime minister position. His first time as Japanese PM is mostly notable for the largest LDP defeat since 1990, and that time he got into a diplomatic slap fight with a Japanese-American member of Congress because the latter made some comment about the Japanese empire which led to a months long back and forth. Abe resigns as prime minister in 2007, then like a goddamn phoenix made out of bad opinions he surges back in 2012, following the collapse of the DPJ (center-left part), becoming the first prime minister ever to resign and then come back. He spends the next 8 years absolutely destroying Japan's relationship with South Korea, reinterprets Japan's constitution to allow for collective self-defense and what he calls "Proactive Pacifism" via some legally dubious means and all the while, he manages to piss off Bush jr., Obama, and Biden. Yes, even W. Bush hated him, and Biden is very vocal about how much he loathes Abe. He didn't piss off Trump, but Abe hated Trump so much he forced the Imperial Family to entertain Trump rather than meet Trump in person, ever. Next, Abe gets the Olympics, and it's thought he was going to use the popularity boost from that as a way to get support for his proposed constitutional amendment which would completely end Japanese pacifism and turn the Self-Defense Forces into a normal military, a goal of his and his war criminal grandfather*. Then he fucks up COVID response, resigns again, gets popular again, and was starting his comeback tour for round 3 baby when he gets shot with a gun made from two pipes, some duct tape, a few batteries, and scrap wood. * granddad was an administrator of Manchukuo and a suspected "Class A" war criminal who got lucky that the US War Crimes tribunal for Japan was such a shitshow that they gave up after the first round of trials. Granddad was allowed back into politics because some prominent Americans said he "wasn't so bad" and he is "harsh on communism." Granddad became a Japanese prime minister and immediately tried to give the Japanese police unlimited power, create a secret police again, and turn Self-Defense Forces into a normal military. This backfired so hard that Abe's granddad was banished from politics forever.
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https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1545526087089696768?s=20&t=0m3dbBu8IgL1zKQ7z8qodA The amount of lawsuits that Musk is going to be a part of is going to be nuts. I think even the Tesla people might have a case because it caused that stock to tumble and he just happened to be able to liquidate a ton of it at its height to do the twitter thing.
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fknlo posted:https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1545526087089696768?s=20&t=0m3dbBu8IgL1zKQ7z8qodA Yeah, Twitter has enough cause to ream him in court, it may take years and only benefit the lawyers, but what do we care, it'll be funny.
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The Delaware Court of Chancery has to be home to the absolute worst snake pit of laws and lawyers in the whole world
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https://twitter.com/NoxDawn/status/1545393231092908032 And the far right now claims it was Hideo Kojima that assassinated Abe. Any Kojima fan already knows this story is far too tame to be associated with him.
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fknlo posted:Uh, can't he not actually do this? CommieGIR posted:Yeah, Twitter has enough cause to ream him in court, it may take years and only benefit the lawyers, but what do we care, it'll be funny. https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1545537973990543360 Here's an actual lawsplainer thread, which more or less adds up to "lol" https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1545521987526746112 quote:That says twitter can withhold information so long as, in the Company's "reasonable judgment" the information could harm Twitter if the deal isn't done. Everyone involved deserves each other 
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Nothing is a clearer indication that you're an actual fascist, and quite possibly some flavor of National Socialist than advancing a "both sides" narrative when what you really want to say is 6MWE. https://twitter.com/RepWeinstein/status/1545446189310640131 The only both sides narrative of the holocaust worth advancing is how the Western Front and Eastern Front met in the middle to exterminate some Nazis.
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I'm sure there was some motivation to dump some wildly overpriced Tesla stock, but this just screams mid-life crisis to me. Dude was about to have 3 kids with 2 women, 2 of them secretly, and instead of buying a convertible he meme priced twitter. He's never faced any real consequences in his life, so why not? Except this stuff isn't like the US Presidency where it's all just on the honor system and there's actual laws that have been litigated repeatedly on all of this poo poo. I'm sure he'll easily wriggle his way out of this jam but I think every entity with any sort of stake in twitter is going to be salivating at getting him to pay the wildly overvalued price he agreed to while opting out of due diligence because he's an actual idiot.
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