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PeopleUnited says

Look at the mask holes at his speech.

That is why we all know the Covid hoax and especially the push to shove every American freedom loving patriot in a mask came from China.
Asians love themselves a fucking commie looking medical mask. They've been wearing them decades before this covid shit.

In 2008 while visiting Malaysia it sure seemed, those that worse a mask, were the folks I did not click with. Something was off with those folks. Like even talking too them was a violation of their space. It would send them reeling back and pressing their mask harder onto their face. .

This sucks that Abe died. Why did that commie fuckface shoot him, he was retired?

I thought Abe was battling Cancer and that was why he had to step down?

Japan needs laws prohibiting homemade guns since the law they have in place now prohibiting murder wasn’t enough (sarcasm)

Maybe then they can reduce or eliminate the 6 gun deaths they have per year in their country

I remember first traveling to Taiwan/China/Japan on business in 2007… the trips would continue throughout my career. One of the first things I noticed that surprised me and left an impression is how these masks were everywhere. That was 13yrs before Covid.

Wasn't this the guy behind Abe-o-nomics, another MMT-style economic abomination where the policy is to borrow/print trillions of dollars to save irresponsible government, banks, and companies while utterly screwing the rest of the population?

I will shed no tears for him.

Big bummer.

This is my favorite picture of Abe listening to the crazy German lady yelling at Trump as she tried to claim that Germany was not overly reliant on Russian energy during a G7 meeting.

Defund NPR



"Divisive Arch-Conservative"

My fav Abe pic.

"Trump, you must force them to eat the bugs and PUFAs like Schwab commands"

Love Abe and Trump body language.

WookieMan says

PeopleUnited says

Look at the mask holes at his speech.

Always been common in Asian cultures, at least the advanced ones like Japan. I can recall some of my first flights as a kid and I'd see many Asians wearing masks. Covid probably makes them even more paranoid. Chinese I think it's because of the pollution and disease.

Yeah definitely a cultural difference. But still they might as well be wearing these.

Tenpoundbass says

In 2008 while visiting Malaysia it sure seemed, those that worse a mask, were the folks I did not click with. Something was off with those folks. Like even talking too them was a violation of their space. It would send them reeling back and pressing their mask harder onto their face. .

Like this?

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/07/08/memo-to-democrats-in-wake-of-abe-assassination-japans-gun-control-laws-among-the-strictest-in-the-world-n591066

Patrick says

Biden admin didnt pass on this opportunity to blame "gun violence"
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/08/statement-by-president-biden-on-the-killing-of-former-japanese-prime-minister-abe-shinzo/

Statement by President Biden on the Killing of Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo
JULY 08, 2022
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STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
I am stunned, outraged, and deeply saddened by the news that my friend Abe Shinzo, former Prime Minister of Japan, was shot and killed while campaigning. This is a tragedy for Japan and for all who knew him. I had the privilege to work closely with Prime Minister Abe. As Vice President, I visited him in Tokyo and welcomed him to Washington. He was a champion of the Alliance between our nations and the friendship between our people. The longest serving Japanese Prime Minister, his vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific will endure. Above all, he cared deeply about the Japanese people and dedicated his life to their service. Even at the moment he was attacked, he was engaged in the work of democracy. While there are many details that we do not yet know, we know that violent attacks are never acceptable and that gun violence always leaves a deep scar on the communities that are affected by it. The United States stands with Japan in this moment of grief. I send my deepest condolences to his family.

WookieMan says

Always been common in Asian cultures, at least the advanced ones like Japan. I can recall some of my first flights as a kid and I'd see many Asians wearing masks. Covid probably makes them even more paranoid. Chinese I think it's because of the pollution and disease.

Yes.

I grew up and for decades live in an area in California immersed in a polygot of Asian immigrant cultures. Even married to the first generation American of one of those. Also spent lots of time in Asia for work over the years. Here is that the masking is about. (Call me a liar if you want to, Sticks And Stones).

They mostly wear the mask out of consideration of others, if they have a cold, or like during COVID, they think there's a chance that they're asymptomatic with the virus and they don't want to spread it. They are more about being considerate of others, than motivated by fear. This may be difficult for some American Homies to understand, because we have different values. But that is what it is. Not really something worth hating about.

PeopleUnited says

Like this?

Well the difference was I was standing at least 3 feet away, the few times I noticed it. This was during the HN91 scare in 2009.

B.A.C.A.H. says

Here is that the masking is about.

Yes, totally true. Japanese culture values respect highly. It is possible that masking is done out of respect.

Still seems like bondage to my western sensibilities.

Tenpoundbass says

PeopleUnited says

Like this?

Well the difference was I was standing at least 3 feet away, the few times I noticed it. This was during the HN91 scare in 2009.

I get spit on all the time when people are talking to me. So if people are afraid of spit their reaction makes sense I guess. But I find masking to be ridiculous and even the medical community felt the same until they changed their mind and said the formerly non effective masks were suddenly magically effective.

B.A.C.A.H. says

Not really something worth hating about.

By the way to my Asian peeps, I'm not hating on Asian people. Not all Asian people wore the mask.
The thing that struck me odd, as my Commie detector is calibrated very sensitive. Those that wore the mask, just seemed so CCP party aligned. The mask smacked me in the face as something Communist would impose on people. I believe I even posted my thoughts on that here on Patnet at the time.

It's also why I hardly ever complied to the mask mandates here. I pitched a stink everywhere I went where it was imposed on me. The whole establishment I was in, got an ear full of me "Mother Fuckin'" "Cock Suckers" as I read the Riot Act to every Commie bastard everywhere. I did not take it lying down.

B.A.C.A.H. says

But that is what it is. Not really something worth hating about.

I don't hate it. Wear a mask if you want. Wear a thick sweater when it's 100º. I don't care, it should be your choice. Just don't mandate ME to wear a mask or I can't enter a business or participate in public life.

I thought it was weird when I was a kid, but as I traveled more I just knew it was a cultural thing. Just like Muslims wrapping women up. Hell even in America there's weird shit in my opinion. I don't even own a suit anymore, yet I still see people with average white collar jobs wearing them. It doesn't make you look important. It makes you look hot and uncomfortable. Pants also suck. I'll wear shorts down to 25-30º. I've cleared my driveway of snow in shorts and sandals before.

Anyway, masks are dumb, but I don't care if people voluntarily wear them.

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14665352

A man who was arrested in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8 told investigators that he harbored a “grudge” against him, citing a religious organization, investigative sources said.

“My family joined that religion and our life became harder after donating money to the organization,” Tetsuya Yamagami, who is unemployed, was quoted by the sources as telling police. “I had wanted to target the top official of the organization, but it was difficult. So, I took aim at Abe since I believed that he was tied (to the organization). I wanted to kill him.”

Yamagami, 41, a resident of Nara, also told police that he does not hold any ill feelings toward Abe’s political convictions.

In addition, he told police that he was attempting to make bombs, according to the sources.

A man who identified himself as a relative of Yamagami told The Asahi Shimbun that his family had trouble with the religious organization.

“His family fell apart due to the group,” the man said. “I am convinced that Yamagami suffered damage from the organization."

The suspect lived in an apartment about 3 kilometers from Kintetsu Railway’s Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara, near where he is accused of fatally shooting Abe. The prime minister was making a campaign speech on the street on behalf of a candidate for the July 10 Upper House election.

Yamagami learned of Abe’s July 8 visit there via the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s website. Abe’s visit was decided on only the evening before, and the LDP published the schedule at 7 p.m. and local LDP politicians spread the word on Twitter.

Yamagami used a homemade gun measuring about 40 centimeters long and about 20 cm wide in the attack on Abe. After the shooting, he was immediately arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

Police confiscated several guns similar to that type during a search of his apartment later that day, along with some explosives, cylindrical objects and a personal computer. Officers also seized copies of books and notebooks from his parents’ home in Nara.

An official close to the Defense Ministry confirmed that Yamagami had served in the Maritime Self-Defense Force for three years from 2002. He learned the necessary skills to assemble and dissemble a firearm and shoot one while he was with the MSDF.

A senior Defense Ministry official confirmed he left the MSDF at his own accord and did not apply to serve in the SDF reserves.

For about a year and half until May, Yamagami worked for a staffing agency based in Osaka Prefecture, operating a forklift at a warehouse in Kyoto Prefecture.

An official with the staffing agency described him as “quiet.”

“He hardly spoke and did not spend time with people around him,” the official said. “He ate lunch alone inside his car.”

He conveyed his decision to quit the staffing agency in April, citing poor health.

Yamagami joined the MSDF after graduating from an elite public high school in Nara Prefecture, according to the agency.

He also told agency officials that he had worked for multiple companies as a dispatched staff worker or part-time worker after obtaining a license as a financial planner and real-estate transaction manager following his discharge from the MSDF.

During the police search of his home, officers urged residents in the neighborhood to evacuate after 9:30 p.m. on July 8, announcing that explosives were found in Yamagami’s apartment.

A man in his 60s who lived next to the suspect’s home said he had never met Yamagami, but heard strange sounds coming from his room over the past month.

“It was a sound similar to one using a saw to cut a tree and I heard it several times at night,” the neighbor said.

I don't believe it. They don't even give the name of the "religious group".