Forum - View topicINTEREST: Tokyo Governor: Quake-Affected ACE Event 'Deserved It'
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MagusGuardian
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I honestly hope this guy gets what he deserves eventually before everythin is fucked up
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Rukiia
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Wonderful words of wisdom from good old, Ishihara-san. Bravo.
I hope Karma runs over his Dogma. |
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Apollo-kun
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This guy would be right at home on 4chan.
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Anymouse
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Or at a convention of Fundamentalist Baptists.
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Tomibiki
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Ey Japan stop feeding the troll.
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Haterater
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Just keeps holding back his citizens. Still don't understand why he keeps being elected with such statements. Wish there was some impeachment process or an anti-group spreading around to stop this. Just make the trolling he does stop.
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Surrender Artist
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There are a lot of emotional, moralistic judgements running wild through this thread, which is probably a bad way to think about politics, even if it is an understandably popular one. It should really be born in mind that Anime News Network is a niche news provider, not a Tokyo politics site, so the information that it supplies necessarily gives a narrow perspective on Shintaro Ishihara. I doubt that very many people who have written posts for this thread know much about the wider situation of Tokyo, or Japanese, politics or about his general administrative competence and other policies.
The specific results do suggest the interesting possibility that under a system other than plurality election, such the Borda count or even just a two-round system, he might not have won, but I think that it's a mistake to attribute that to personal qualities or media distortions consequent to the earthquake. Something that political scientists know, but most people don't is that gaffes, campaigns and other narrative events that people think determine political outcomes are generally marginal factors and most of the result is attributable to political fundamentals. Most voters are rationally ignorant of specific political information, so their aggregate decisions tend to be the result of things such as economic performance, major incidents beyond political control, alternations in political power and other structural factors. I concede that most of this has been studied within the context of American politics and there are likely to be some differences due to the different institutional structures and cultural context of Japanese politics, but at a basic level, the theory should still be applicable.
I doubt that commentary dominates anybody's entertainment and youth in stable republics tend to be politically inactive, especially in local politics. Electoral participation rates in the United States shrank appreciably when eighteen-year-olds were enfranchised simply because the pool of people who could vote was significantly increased, but the number of people who voted grew only modestly. Last edited by Surrender Artist on Wed May 18, 2011 5:55 am; edited 3 times in total |
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torontoanimemeetup
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I just can't believe how much you [beep] hate this guy, actually I hate him too... funny. The best part is how you talk about Japan as if she is your country or something.
[Politics do not belong on an anime forum, do not try to turn this in to your soapbox on unrelated political and social issues. This segment removed.] Ishihara isn't EVIL, his laws on Manga/Anime were law PASSED by the people that were elected by the people. In another words, you can't do jack s**t. Also, Ishihara is a governor of Tokyo and NOT THE PRIME MINISTER of Japan. Don't talk like he run the country or something, the people of Japan did not elected him to be governor, the people of Tokyo did, big difference. Until this Law affect Naruto, One Piece, all these freak hentai anime/manga can all burn in Hell. [Attacking people due to generalizations will not be tolerated] I supported this law and my people have VOTED and we won, so [attacking people and spouting racist and xenophobic comments will also not be tolerated. Be civil or don't post, it's not a difficult concept.] [Mod Edit: Here's the bottom line. You want to post and discuss the issue then go ahead, but you are expected to do so thoughtfully, civilly and respectfully. If you can't do that and simply want to spout profanity, racism and prejudicial comments then you are in the wrong forum, because that will simply not be tolerated here. - Keonyn] Last edited by torontoanimemeetup on Wed May 18, 2011 2:17 am; edited 2 times in total |
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tuxedocat
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I don't think that this guy being re-elected is that much of a surprise actually. He pandered to his base constituents, and those are the people that turned out to vote.
Kind of like what happened here in the U.S. during the mid-terms. I can't tell you how many people I know who are complaining about the politicians now in power never showed up to vote. Why are they so surprised how it turned out? They had something else to do that day. First, they had work (or school), then, there was every other kind of excuse. (Like their favorite band was playing at the local bar and a lot of hot guys/girls hang out there....or politics is boring, etc.) Meanwhile. their grand uncle got driven to the polling place with his church group, and the bus was packed! Add to that the median age of Japan, and these results aren't surprising at all. Unfortunately. Older, more conservative folks vote. The younger voters have something better to do. 
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KN_guro
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I'm pretty sure this man was raped by a roving band of otaku as a child....
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Teriyaki Terrier
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Either this guy doesn't care what others think or something else, because I am not sure this type of attitude would ever fly in America or even elsewhere maybe.
But let me ask, who keeps voting for this "interesting" person? People that don't like anime/manga/or anything remotely fun? |
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insomniac1970
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The people of Tokyo should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to keep this vile human being in office. He is a disgrace to humanity like any other political hack that uses tragedy for political capital. Of course, we have scumbags like him here in the US, Republicans and Democrats alike, so maybe I shouldn't be so harsh, but Ishihara is as noxious to me as the worst we have to offer.
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insomniac1970
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I understand your anger at a countryman being criticized by outsiders, but he makes it so easy to bash him. I do not care about the new law, that's your business, but I will trash any person that speaks so inhumanely about the misfortunes of others. When Franklin Graham said that 9/11 was caused by homosexuality, I called him a douche bag. Making political hay off a tragic event is reprehensible. I don't claim to own Japan, but I do claim some human decency, which his statements after tsunami show that Ishihara does not. |
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torontoanimemeetup
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[Racism and politics removed.]
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Melanchthon
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Oh, I wrote some interesting stuff on the last thread about how a lot of older Japanese view anime/manga as a corrupting influence on the youth, responsible for a number of societal ills, but I'm too lazy to rewrite it all. To make a comparison to American politics, this would be a conservative complaining about the secularization of America. In both cases they are completely wrong, but in both cases they can get a lot of popular support for saying it.
2/10. Seriously, that's the best you can do? I see better trolling on the Politics Tab of Fark.com. I would suggest that you go and study up on Jonathan Swift, Michael Moore and Bill O'Reilly if you really want to learn how to troll people. Oh, and practice on FreeRepublic. Trolling that place can get epic. |
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