"Shot an unpopular politician"
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
(Yes ik Trump)
"Entire nation hates him"
It’s kinda true in the sense that:
One side hates him because he tried to kill their god.
Another side hates him because he missed.
And another side hates him for attempting it in the first place because all it does is make an already very unstable political situation even worse no matter the outcome.
I'm guessing it's closer to 190 nations. (Trump, not the assassin)
I mean, define "popular politician" / " unpopular politician." Does the fact that the media constantly shoves all these yahoos in our faces make these political figures popular? Unpopular? It's all corrupt and I hate every mention of ANY politician's names, while some people choose politicians to cheer for like it's a fekkin sports team.
did I really learn about an assassination attempt thru lemmy
Isn’t that the point of Lemmy? So you don’t have to rawdog news?
Oh, you want your news filtered, but you will happily rawdog Becky who may or may not have Clamidia
Same, felt weird.
Beyond that, I learned about it via a particularly cold meme.
I was glad to see that meme to remember the anecdote. Valuable info in these times.
For me it was 4chan's technology board /g/ of all places
Happened last night yeah. Ive been stunned there isn't more in the news yet already, but the day is young.
I think TDogs ear got hit?
I learned through KnowYourMeme.
There was a time when America could reliably produce assassins who could kill both presidential candidates and even sitting presidents. What the he'll happened? Deindustralization? Too much porn and video games?
I think you'll see plenty of attempts after this, some inspired by it and others in retaliation. Fun times for the US
Secret service will step up their security after this, so another attempt as close as this is unlikely
Failed attempts are enough to escalate things. And with enough attempts, some especially against smaller targets might succeed. It's gonna get intetesting
I’m pretty sure Secret Service is well aware of this, so they will escalate their security accordingly.
The same Secret Service who left one of the only buildings in the area unsecured? Who when told there was a shooter by the crowd, ignored them? Making a lot of assumptions about competency here when that's already directly in question.
Damn, did they hire the Secret Service from Uvalde or something?
I don't doubt that, I'm sure they're doing their best
Umm... Shouldn't the first attempt have been unlikely? This literally proves Secret Service isn't as competent as you believe.
You are all talking about Abe's assassination, but forgetting this happened
That act weakened the Japanese Socialist party (center-left), emboldened the far-right, caused copycats and ensured the current party stayed in power for most of the twentieth century.
That's not to say that Asanuma was a scummy maoist and had forced his party to support the terrible war in Asia.
I've honestly been really surprised that this was the only 'real' assassination attempt in recent memory. I was surprised that no one went after Obama, nor Trump after him and Biden after him. The rage was so high, yet it's only now that anyone from either side makes a real attempt.
I'm just making a guess here, but there could have been more attempts that were nippedl in the bud early enough that we have never heard of them, because the would-be assaains were sloppier and got caught.
You're correct. You'll notice every president in recent history has multiple assassination attempts listed. The bulk of them don't go very far.
Hierarchy tends to prevent violence by providing an authority to appeal to. So long as there is some process people can take, in hope of redress, they will choose that instead of just stabbing a motherfucker. This applies to interpersonal conflict with your neighbor, or mass conflict between religious groups, indeed everybody seeing a fat old baby commit high crimes on national television. Even if you feel the odds are abysmal, that can be enough to stop you from grabbing your pitchfork with intent to use it.
Belief in those systems is a finite resource.
the ö's make this even more amusing, as i can't be sure it was an accidental dick-up instead of a nordic memelord giggling themself to sleep.
The long o (oe or ö) is a sound present in north European languages, and also in many Asian languages, including Japanese.
am Finnish, so i responded as such. for Japanese, however, you'd use ō instead. that is not an ö. ou is also acceptable.
You're right, it should be ou here, not oe.
Long o in Finnish is oo, ö is pronounced different and could also be pronounced as long öö.
Who's that chad
The guy that killed Shinzo Abe.
I'm not so sure Shinzo Abe was popular.
