Whatever else you can say about 2022, it's the year that a dude with a shitty Borderlands gun aced Shinzo Abe and in doing so maybe irreparably damaged both the Unification Church and the LDP and so had more concrete impact than any "peaceful protest" ever had in history.
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in reply to @DecayWTF's post:
whats the connection to the unification church? i know vaguely what the Deal is with moonies but not this aspect
Yamagami targeted Abe because of the church's ties to Japanese politics, they're up in the LDP in the same way The Family is all up in the upper levels of American politics. Moon was evidently going to be his original target.
i did not realize they were that deeply entrenched in japanese politics damn. thanks
Wait fuck, that’s the moonies? I heard they were a socially shitty cult based out of SK, nobody mentioned them being a weirdly influential part of Japanese politics…
I went into a hole reading wikipedia about Shinzo Abe and his grandpa, and I guess he had a lot of controversy over the people he appointed which were overwhelmingly moonies
- his grandpa who founded the LDP in cooperation with the US government to suppress socialism, in order to escape consequences for the Extreme War Crimes he committed in Manchuria during his time in the Imperial Japanese army
I had legitimately forgotten that that has happened THIS YEAR. What the hell has 2022 been.
Same. I had to take a moment to remember the other socio/political shocks that happened this year.
I had to remind myself that the ukraine war started this year. This fucking year.