The world is a slightly better place now with these peoples' deaths...
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Agrippina wrote:The_Piper wrote:I'm actually shocked to hear it. I didn't know he was battling cancer. I thought of Powell as one of the few sane Republicans. That was probably true. It's maddening, that we live among some fairly radicalized people, to hate and indifference.
I've always thought the people at the top of the military ladder in the US were had a little more decency than the general populace who vote for idiots simply because of the stupid reasons they do, like making perving over your own daughter acceptable. Which is why I had a little respect for Powell, and especially because he admitted voting for Biden (I think I read that somewhere, can't remember). What I hate is that it's now given anti-vaxxers a weapon - see he had two doses of the vaccine and still died of Covid. That annoys me, I didn't want fuel for their stupidity, and now it's making me obsessive about pursuing a booster for my old man who has diabetes. He barely survived an attack after the first vaccination, so the fear is valid. If only it had been the cancer that got him and not the virus. Not that I wish anyone's death, it's just that I would've preferred it if he hadn't been sick with Covid.
The_Piper wrote:I'm actually shocked to hear it. I didn't know he was battling cancer. I thought of Powell as one of the few sane Republicans. That was probably true. It's maddening, that we live among some fairly radicalized people, to hate and indifference.
Matt_B wrote:Have a read of some of Powell's exploits during the Vietnam War and the Iran-Contra affair and you might get a better picture of him. Suffice it to say that Iraq and Afghanistan were merely the tail end of a long career of covering up war crimes.
That he held relatively moderate views and was capable of rather more insightful takes than your average Republican statesman only made him a better salesman for bad foreign policy.
The_Piper wrote:Agrippina wrote:The_Piper wrote:I'm actually shocked to hear it. I didn't know he was battling cancer. I thought of Powell as one of the few sane Republicans. That was probably true. It's maddening, that we live among some fairly radicalized people, to hate and indifference.
I've always thought the people at the top of the military ladder in the US were had a little more decency than the general populace who vote for idiots simply because of the stupid reasons they do, like making perving over your own daughter acceptable. Which is why I had a little respect for Powell, and especially because he admitted voting for Biden (I think I read that somewhere, can't remember). What I hate is that it's now given anti-vaxxers a weapon - see he had two doses of the vaccine and still died of Covid. That annoys me, I didn't want fuel for their stupidity, and now it's making me obsessive about pursuing a booster for my old man who has diabetes. He barely survived an attack after the first vaccination, so the fear is valid. If only it had been the cancer that got him and not the virus. Not that I wish anyone's death, it's just that I would've preferred it if he hadn't been sick with Covid.
Yeah. Powell's age, condition, and cancer treatment probably rendered him vulnerable to sniffle. It is annoying. I hope you can keep yourself and husband from getting infected again, whatever you decide with the booster.
arugula2 wrote:Madeleine Albright. One of countless sociopathic mediocrities who shaped late-20th century US foreign policy. Much more useful to the world as fertilizer. Too many of them still living and active.
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Shinzo Abe was shot twice while delivering a campaign speech in Nara. The assassin used a homemade musket-style firearm which fired two shots, the first striking Abe in the neck and the second striking him fatally in the heart. A 41-year-old man named Tetsuya Yamagami (a former Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force officer) was arrested following the shooting and later confessed to local police. Yamagami stated that he held a grudge against a "particular religious group" and shot Abe because he believed that "the religious group and Abe were connected". Yamagami claimed that he "didn't have a grudge against Abe's political beliefs".
Hermit wrote:Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan (2006-2007 & 2012-2020), ultranationalist, right-wing populist and ultra-conservative. Assassinated on 8 July 2022 at 11:30 JST (UTC+9)Shinzo Abe was shot twice while delivering a campaign speech in Nara. The assassin used a homemade musket-style firearm which fired two shots, the first striking Abe in the neck and the second striking him fatally in the heart. A 41-year-old man named Tetsuya Yamagami (a former Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force officer) was arrested following the shooting and later confessed to local police. Yamagami stated that he held a grudge against a "particular religious group" and shot Abe because he believed that "the religious group and Abe were connected". Yamagami claimed that he "didn't have a grudge against Abe's political beliefs".
jamest wrote:… BBC presented him as being very popular in Japan …
jamest wrote:Hermit wrote:Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan (2006-2007 & 2012-2020), ultranationalist, right-wing populist and ultra-conservative. Assassinated on 8 July 2022 at 11:30 JST (UTC+9)
Not that I know anything about Abe but the BBC presented him as being very popular in Japan, hence my surprise to see him mentioned in this thread. Although I must also confess to losing much trust in the BBC.
Hermit wrote:jamest wrote:Hermit wrote:Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan (2006-2007 & 2012-2020), ultranationalist, right-wing populist and ultra-conservative. Assassinated on 8 July 2022 at 11:30 JST (UTC+9)
Not that I know anything about Abe but the BBC presented him as being very popular in Japan, hence my surprise to see him mentioned in this thread. Although I must also confess to losing much trust in the BBC.
Ultranationalist, right-wing populist and ultra-conservative politicians can be very popular. Several present and past national leaders are/were both.
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