nooo you can't celebrate a MURDERER, think of poor ol smol bean Shinzo Abe!!!
haha 
go BOOM 
I know it's entirely on brand for these losers but imagine crying crocodile tears over Shinzo fucking Abe
broke: visiting Nara to pet the tame deer
woke: visiting Nara to see the world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha Vairocana
bespoke: visiting Nara for a selfie with your doohickey at the site of Abe's assassination
Holy shit I'm an American looking at this absolute photograph
Completely inconceivable
Showing up at the dallas book depository in a tshirt with a rifle
How the fuck can you not laugh? Homeboy got blown away by a tweaker zip gun.
He got blown away and then his assassin's wacky conspiracy theory about a cult turned out to be 100% accurate, leading to the cult losing its tax exemption. Truly some sort of wacky anime plot.
It wasn't a conspiracy theory at all, Abe's connection to the Moonies was already known.
It feels like the exposition to an early 90s cyberpunk OVA
and the guy has gotten millions of yen in donations and has widespread public support lol
they had to ask people to stop sending him snacks and candy in prison because he ran out of storage space
This is going to be the most effective political assassination of this century (if your goal isn't just war)
The dude was completely justified,
the Moonies scammed his mom out of her savings. IT WAS WAY WORSE, CHECK OUT THE BELOW REPLY He originally wanted to kill their leader with a flamethrowerI was just now reading his wiki article, CW: suicide
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after his dad committed suicide when Yamagami was 4 years old
his mom joined the Moonies and gave away 720,000 USD worth of assets she inherited from her father, including his childhood home. He couldn't attend university due to the resulting poverty and due to nearsightedness he couldn't become a firefighter either and went to vocational school with his paternal uncle's financial support instead. That same uncle basically made his family's survival possible, paying for their food and living expenses repeatedly after the mom impoverished them. Apparently he once threw a cup of tea in her face when she asked for Unification Church donations in lieu of support for her kids.
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Eventually one of his brothers lost eyesight in an eye due to an untreated illness, that went untreated due to lack of funding (aka directly due to the cult) and killed himself. Yamagami ultimately tried and failed to kill himself also so that his military life insurance could go to pay for his neglected younger brother's living expenses.
Just absolutely awful from beginning to end, I feel so sorry for this guy. Good on him for being the change he wanted to see in the world.
Change your account to singlepepperoni for this grievous error. Lest I unleash proleshido upon thee.
that gun sounded exactly like a smoothbore musket too. Huge plumes of smoke. Abe got taken out like a pirate in 1703.
And now he’s riding the high seas of Hell with Oliver Cromwell.
Meanwhile, communist weebs are thoroughly studying the art of the
yeah all the anime fans i know think
is hilarious
These little shits would also cry tears of joe and "based" when a Japanese Socialist Party PM candidate got katana'd in the past, yet they're crying over this shit?
I would like to see some links to this...
Now you've got me wondering what kinda dank memes Japanese netizens have made about the doohickey
we occasionally see into the depths of chinese posting power when some weibo/wechat memes break through, but I really feel like LINE is an untapped goldmine
Any weeb crying over Abe getting isekai'd doesnt know their history. The freak hated nerds so much he tried to ban them for "destroying culture"
Extra funny because as we speak the Abe Faction of the LDP is getting purged for un-ignorable amounts of corruption. Public sentiment in Japan about Abe is pretty much rock bottom, which makes it even funnier that foreign weebs are getting worked up about him.
I didn’t divest myself of my weeb side until I was an adult and I can say from personal experience that weebs don’t know shit about Japan or Japanese history. I remember learning about imperial Japan, Japanese warcrimes, and the current issues Japan has with xenophobia/racism and bringing up some of this to a weeb who studied abroad for a year and they were so resistant to it. I wasn’t even that harsh, I just assumed if you spent a year there a lot of the japanophile shine of Japan would fade.
It’s more sad because even a cursory glance of reading people’s experiences in Japan, especially migrants from non-western countries, makes it crystal clear.
Its not as if those issues are not portrayed in media either. The disgruntled salary men, the bored/hopeless teenagers, the anxiety about confessing/starting a love relationship, how every foreigner is reduced to a stereotype often as a gag for plausible deniability and of course the dozens(?) of times we've seen JP otakus in anime being portrayed either negatively or as creepy, also the whole NEET issue where the victim blames society and they're mocked for it for being a loser etc.
My point is you have to be a certain type of weeb, that consumes only the most mainstream and samey genres like action/adventure etc to not have noticed at least some of these.
I picked up that Japan was a horrible place to live when I got older and realized wait a second this whole taking the last train home trope is a bit too common for my liking. That and a dozen other things but yeah.
To be fair I absolutely love the burger gun country blow everything up and scream stereotype they give to americans.
Insult america more please.
”I love Japanese culture” is a super common thing to say on
, but there's no way they know anything about ”Japanese culture” beyond cartoons and video games. Even funnier are the people who want to move there and don't know the whole system is extremely xenophobic.I always feel "I love Japan they're so efficient and clean" is some type of coded phrase for peeps that just want to live in a monoculture/monoethnic dystopia, as it has the same fash vibes as saying Mussolini made the trains run on time. Like we could have bullet trains and cleaner cities too, just take the police budgets and give them to sanitation workers and set up incentivized recycle bins like in Germany that give out coins for putting in bottles and such
It's extra hilarious because outside of "I like your cartoons and video games" there's a sense of them looking down on Japanese culture. Sure, maybe some of the smarter ones will recognize them as their fellow global north bourgeoisie. But it seems like a lot of them, even the biggest weebs see them as still "inferior brown people", but can be second in command because they amuse the WASPs. Some older CHUDs seem to have this dynamic with Israel. They're bad because they're not Christian, but they have the honor of being second bananas to the white man because Israel's Islamophobia amuses them.
Exactly. It's not an appreciation for a culture or a country. It's fetishisation they can project their own weird values onto.
This was my experience as well. It was an awkward moment when I studied Japanese in college and everyone else was there for anime reasons. The exchange students were kinda weirded out by the weebs.
Do weebs know who Shinzo Abe is? I always assumed they only knew Japan from pop culture and nearly nothing about its politics beyond ww2.
One of the biggest running jokes in weebdom is Shinzo Abe covertly using messages in anime and manga to try to raise the birthrate
There was a camping anime some years ago that was sponsored by a group of camping and outdoors sites in Japan, and it was a pretty big hit. They even saw an uptick in campers, especially first-timers, after the show started airing.
This was also a period where there was a weird amount of anime that had, like, newlywed couples and couples with young kids, slice of life stuff. People put two and two together and started making jokes about the Japanese government covertly sponsoring anime studios to adapt material that depicted a positive image of family life to encourage people to have kids. Abe, being the Prime Minister at the time, had his face plastered all over the memes about it.
They don't really know about its politics, but Abe was a longtime fixture in Japanese society and got endless little "cameos" (usually with an altered name) in various manga that both liked and disliked him, and those that were neutral but just wanted a "the Prime Minister commented this morning about yesterday's mass-death incident" scene or something like that.
Teen-me knew he was called ワンワンちゃん (little woof woof) because he was seen as Bush's lapdog lol.
Edit: maybe this wasn't a thing and was just something the Japanese kids I knew called him lmao.
Shinzo was assassinated for promising to have sex with all of us. Remember what they took from you…
I bet you can, but you have to set it up on Facebook or on telegram first
Akihabara is wild though. You go into a building called something like "Crazy Turban Sunshine Land." First floor is arcade style claw machines, second floor is remote control cars, third floor is every type of glue ever made, fourth to sixth floors are pornography. Top floor is a cafe with a dedicated house band that plays ska covers. Japan has perfected crass commercialism in a way that I can't describe in words.
Couldn't have been that cool of a dude if he got killed by a Fallout 1 gun
