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[-] mr_account@lemmy.world 228 points 1 week ago

That's not petty, that's just being smart

[-] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Pettiness and pragmatism are two wildly different things. I'd also count her as pragmatic.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 125 points 1 week ago

"Was." That's Abe and he was assassinated a few years ago.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Wasn't the assassination due to some connection to a church if I recall correctly

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 47 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

Most successful political assassination in recent memory. The shooter got everything he wanted and then some.

Inspiring, really.

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[-] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

with a doohickey gun some dude made in his basement, no less.

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[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 58 points 1 week ago

To be fair, the Orange Shitgibbon barely speaks english itself.

[-] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Is it possible to learn this power?

[-] danekrae@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Anybody whose able to speak another language than english can do it.

But that does exclude a lot of americans.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

you don't even actually have to speak another language. just make shit up. babble like a fundie "speaking in tongues" and repeat "no speakey eni englche"... helps if you can go a little castor-eyed and pull out the crazed weirdo look.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

that's how i reply to talkative hobos on the street

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[-] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago
[-] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

That will get you disappeared for the next few years

[-] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago
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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

no entender

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[-] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

As an English speaking American, I would attempt the same thing.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

"This person doesn't speak ~~English~~ American, must be an illegal immigrant" -ICE

[-] pleasegoaway@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

“Oh. I don’t speak or understand any of the English language at all, so I cannot talk to you or your staff.”

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago

Back in his first term

[-] SheenSquelcher@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

Well its worked for Melania all these years....

[-] Naich@lemmings.world 18 points 1 week ago

Sometimes I wish I could not know English for 2 hours.

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[-] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago

Rest in Piss bozo

[-] breecher@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

That is the opposite of being petty.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago
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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 1 week ago

To be fair, she can get away with it, unlike, say, Queen Elizabeth II.

[-] kraftpudding@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

She gets away not talking to trump, mostly because she's dead.

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

*pretending to be dead. Now we know the real reason she "died"

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't utter a single word to that turd.

[-] udon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

日本語を食べません

[-] Soulg@ani.social 16 points 1 week ago

I also don't eat Japanese

[-] Lowpast@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
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[-] DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago

I'm on public transport and I just giggled. Love it.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Same griftbitch that just went to hang out with Putin?

[-] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago
[-] Bloomcole@crazypeople.online 6 points 1 week ago

Why would she do that, she's married to a fascist

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I think Hitler would have hated Trump. Pretty sure he did end up hating Mussolini. Fascism isn't a big friendship club.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Hitler considered Italians to be racially inferior to even the French. Also there was little cooperation between the axis powers. They didn't share much technology and or industrial power. Unlike the allies who were far more cooperative.

For example many people make a big deal about Hitler's plan for nuclear weapons... but what no one talks about is Japan's nuclear program... and how much closer they got to making a functioning nuke. There was very little information sharing between Japan and Germany, however.

In terms of industry, the Italian air force often had decent airframes but poor engines. The Germans had excellent engines but didn't do much to help the Italians with their air force logistical issues.

Take this in comparison to the US which absolutely flooded its allies with everything from cutlery to explosives to fuel and everything in-between. The Soviet army was bolstered greatly by American trucks, jeeps, and heavy machinery that would have made winning the war incredibly difficult.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I sometimes wonder why the European and Japanese fascists even allied.

I'm doing a hearts of iron 4 playthrough as germany and just said no when the option of allying with Japan came up. It's that alliance that ends up pulling the US into the war. This way I think Japan will have their own little war with the US and China while I fight it out with Britain and finish that up before even looking at the Soviets funny.

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[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not sure I would call it "petty"... :)

[-] Unquote0270@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago
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