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"Was." That's Abe and he was assassinated a few years ago.
She is still alive, though, and may have been avoiding taking to Trump by not knowing English all along!
Wasn't the assassination due to some connection to a church if I recall correctly
Most successful political assassination in recent memory. The shooter got everything he wanted and then some.
Inspiring, really.
How? He wasn't even in office any more.
Most assassinated politicians become lionized and turned into heroes, even if the reality did not convey that. For Shinzo, however, Japan basically collectively agreed that he was an asshole and his reputation was ruined. That rarely happens.
Imagine if the assassination attempt on Trump in 2024 was successful and then... not only does MAGA die immediately, but even the most die hard MAGA people immediately say 'yeah Trump was a dipshit anyway.'
Yeah, Moonies. I can't remember why him. The kid that did it, his mom was grifted 100k or something. That's all I remember though.
It was because Abe, like other LDP politicians, had an history of propping up the Church of Unification cult. The shooter picked him specifically because of a video of Abe speaking in one of their churches. Abe's family in particular has connections to the cult since the very foundation, and their ties to the LDP are something out of a "Like A Dragon"/"Yakuza" plot.
Yep.
People not from or really familiar with Japan and also South Korea... when you tell them that actually, weird ass insano religious cults actually fund and drive a very substantial amount of politics and prominent political personalities...
People often think you are being some kind of racist when you say that.
Nope. This is just actually true, to an extent that is often absurd/incomprehensible to many in the Anglosphere.
Which... is kinda weird, because, look at the US.
The Republican party, as in elected officials, is ... majority composed of outright christian nationalist theocrats? Supermajority?
That are functionally a death cult that is actively trying to bring about their version of the apocalypse, at a geopolitical scale, so that Jesus can rapture them all away.
... What are the Mormons? Oh, right, an extremist domestic terrorist religious cult, founded by a locally infamous conman, that just barely managed to not get snuffed out in its infancy of many clashes with Federal Forces and state militias, that's just managed to get a hell of a lot better at PR... while also continuing to evangelize and amass money and political power, and gaslight the fuck out if its adherents as to its actual history.
It really shouldn't be shocking at all that massive, culty religious organizations with opaque external financial reporting standards and essentially always also massive tax breaks/exceptions... do in fact worm their way into having massive power over the political apparatus.
Don't forget Scientology. They had members infiltrate the IRS all over the country, working from the inside to get tax-exempt status for them, cementing their identity as an official religion.
Oh god yes dear fucking lord.
I would say its astounding they haven't been banned, but they have a loooot of money, so, no, that makes perfect sense.
Yeah Scientology, is the most direct analogue to the insano cult shit in East Asia.
They stalk people, have probably assasinated people, imprison people in their little nonsense navy, buy entire city neighborhoods and all the local municipal politicians... got the insane alien religion, the fucking e meter cans things... entire thing is basically a massively gaslighty, manipulative and dangerous cult.
There’s interesting connections between Scientology and transphobia… look into Anna Slatz. Reduxx is what a lot of TERFs like Rowling read…
He was a big supporter I think.
with a doohickey gun some dude made in his basement, no less.
Its not talking about him though...
I think they’re saying that if Abe isn’t the prime minister anymore (because dead) then she isn’t the First Lady anymore either
That's like someone posting a picture of a newspaper when Bush was president and then someone commenting "well he's not president now haha" like yeah everyone knows that...
But it doesn’t say Abe’s name, so it’s very likely there’s some folks who don’t realize that this photo is rather old. It would be easy to read it and think this just happened in the last few days.
I think they were trying to be helpful, it’s likely not something worth being upset over.
Oh phew thanks for letting me know i was losing sleep over this
Seems like you were behaving pretty irrationally, and basic common sense was eluding you, so I was just trying to be helpful.
Oh wise commenter please show me the way!
I have no idea who Japan's current president is, so it's very useful information to me.
They're certainly talking about the First Lady, which she most assuredly is not.
not anymore*
I used the word "is." Present tense.
I read it, but since people in this thread seem confused when this happened i felt it might helpful to add anymore: she is not in the present, but was in the past.
my app doesn't show the "is"
I assume she was when this was written or this is referring to her in that time period?
I think it's safe to assume that it was written during the period that she was.