wojak-nooo nooo you can’t celebrate a MURDERER, think of poor ol smol bean Shinzo Abe!!!

haha the-doohickey go BOOM miyazaki-laugh

I know it’s entirely on brand for these losers but imagine crying crocodile tears over Shinzo fucking Abe

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      78·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        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 flamethrower

        • TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          I was just now reading his wiki article, CW: suicide

          spoiler

          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.

          CW: suicide, again

          spoiler

          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.

  • DeadWorld@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    11 months ago

    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”

  • Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.netEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      22·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      11 months ago

      ”I love Japanese culture” is a super common thing to say on reddit-logo, 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.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        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

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        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.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      35·
      11 months ago

      One of the biggest running jokes in weebdom is Shinzo Abe covertly using messages in anime and manga to try to raise the birthrate

        • scraeming [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          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.

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      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.