Posted on 07/08/2022 12:18:24 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Sam Colt, made a great weapon. The design is function and simplicity. The workmanship was good. They became very common.
I have no idea. Not that familiar with Japan.
He could be a Christian. Pompeo likes him and they were good friends. That might explain it.
Abe made his speech on behalf of his party...one thing that could bother a 41 year old unemployed man who admits has a thing against a particular religious group, and suspected Abe was a member, is that Abe’s political party is involved in the culture war that is eating Japan like it is the US. Abe’s party not long ago released a pamphlet about homosexuality being a mental disorder.
LDP ( Liberal Democratic Party ) panel booklet calling homosexuality a ‘mental disease’ sparks backlash in Japan
7/7/2022, 4:41:37 AM · by sushiman · 11 replies
Mainichi News English ^ | 7/7/22 | Mainichi Japanw
He died a Samurai’s death and has been reincarnated into medieval village setting. Has already met tomboyish swordswoman with large breasts.
Good point. Abe was speaking on behalf of a candidate of the LDP. The party campaigns on getting kidnapped Japanese back from North Koria, advocates for a strong national defense, and isn’t woke when it comes to LGBTQ issues:
LDP panel booklet calling homosexuality a ‘mental disease’ sparks backlash in Japan
7/7/2022, 4:41:37 AM · by sushiman · 11 replies
Mainichi News English ^ | 7/7/22 | Mainichi Japan
“calling homosexuality a ‘mental disease”
It is.
I agree one hundred percent. Democrazies are born to hate. They hate EVERYTHING. To include themselves.
Agree. It is a terminal disease.
A long time ago.
Security people have a lot of experience watching people’s habits & they can usually pick up on someone that is behaving in a suspicious manner.
Agreed.
I think I found what religious group the shooter was talking about:
A Buddhist based group called Soka Gakkai, at least according to a professor, Bolton Thomas, from the University of Pennsylvania. It has an associated political party called Komeito.
Not Bolton Thomas, spell correction be damaged, but Jolyon Thomas ...
Thanks for your link.
It’s not new thing:
The Power of Japan’s Religious Party (December 4, 2014)
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/the-power-japans-religious-party
As has been the case for every Japanese electoral contest since the mid-1950s, thousands of people across Japan right now are receiving solicitations from Gakkai adherents to vote for Soka Gakkai’s affiliated party Komeito, the “Clean Government Party.” Meanwhile, Gakkai members are turning out en masse to cheer for Komeito and coalition partner LDP candidates at rallies; mapping out local businesses to target for candidate support; and compiling lists of relatives, school friends, and acquaintances, however far-flung, to solicit in a practice called f-tori: “friend-getting,” a vote-gathering tactic that circumvents Japan’s prohibition on house-to-house campaigning.
No other Japanese group can out-mobilize Soka Gakkai when it comes to electioneering. It is this unmatched voting power that inspires accusations from religious and political rivals that Soka Gakkai and Komeito violate Japan’s constitutionally-guaranteed separation of religion and state. This same power cements the coalition partnership between Komeito and the LDP.
But why are Soka Gakkai members so intensely engaged in electioneering? Does policy play a role in Gakkai support of Komeito? And is there a limit to compromises Soka Gakkai vote-gatherers are willing to accept before they stop supporting the LDP–and Komeito itself?
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