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Jaymie
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I love how the Japanese parties are Liberal Democratic and Democratic. Even if they're split into different parties, it's still a case of white and gray.
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Tempest
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Only in name. The LDP is fairly conservative. |
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DKL
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I remember this exact conversation from roughly a year ago.
Yes, I still need alcohol. |
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configspace
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I hope power doesn't shift to the LDP even more since they are anything but "liberal", more like the complete antithesis actually.
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Charred Knight
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Liberal in this case is referring to economic liberalism, where as in America the word liberal is a reference to social liberalism. So the Liberal Democratic party is the equivalent of the republican party. |
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GATSU
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What a coincidink. Dems blowing their majorities in two countries now.
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Ranma824
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Kinda like how the Dems will be over here come midterm elections.
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Joe Mello
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I guess "lame duck" is not a common phrase in Japan.
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jrnemanich
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could i request that this topic not turn into one about american politics?
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Anime World Order
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On the contrary, it is a phrase uttered by Kenshiro AFTER the final blow in a battle. It's not a proclamation that he's about to bestow a righteous beatdown upon someone; rather, it is a statement that the beatdown has already occurred, he's already won, and the poor sap on the other side doesn't even realize it's happened yet. |
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Dark Paladin X
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Yeah, pretty much what he said. The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan (despite the word liberal), is more of a conservative party from an American standpoint. The "liberal" part from the Japanese standpoint refers to their policy of laissez-faire capitalism (economic liberalism). The Democratic Party of Japan is more of a libertarian/liberal party from the American standpoint. In turn, the LDP and the DPJ is probably the Japanese equivalent to Republican and Democratic parties of U.S. respectfully (although their social policies would be far different from the said U.S. political parties). But didn't Japan entered some sort of 20 so years of recession (or was it stagflation) after their economic bubble burst in the early 1990s along with a very a bad national debt that seems to be unrecoverable? I think that's the reason why the Japanese voted out the LDP out of power in favor of the DPJ last year. Funny thing during the 1970s and 80s when Japan entered an economic boom, many Americans were fearing that Japan would become a dominant superpower and would take over them. Nowadays, China takes the spot. |
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NimbusRain
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I expected this article to be about some kind of puppet-government conspiracy where the public thinks the politician is still alive, but in actuality he is dead and his party is being controlled from behind the scenes.
Guess I just watch too much anime. Total letdown... 
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Syobon
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quite truth, modern japanese government is just a facade, doesn't really matter who is elected, like in U.S. |
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population_tire
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If someone if the US quoted like Spider-Man, they would be portrayed as stupid in the media. At least if they were attacking Barack Obama.
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