She wasn't gambling. This wasn't a huge risk. Big news outlets have become dinosaurs struggling to understand a new world. Her team calculated this win using modern viral social media strategies and polling metrics. It's not just gEnZ that is swayed by social media. Wake up NBCeeple; the Trump virus hath spread.
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I know little more from Japan than the mainstream culture knowledge. That said, Japan is said to be a place where people are cold and distant. So, things starting getting more social, they get more tourists, and then instead of relaxing in relation to the social sphere, Japan is like: "No, let's be more cold and distant.". Yeah, that will work.
Terrible but expected news.
Hmm, I just realized that I (an American living in New Zealand) have no idea what Japanese politics are like. To Wikipedia!
Takaichi has been described as holding hard-line conservative and Japanese nationalist views,
uh oh
citing former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher as a role model and deeply influential on her personal political beliefs.
Uh oh
Like Thatcher, she is called the "Iron Lady".
Uh Oh
Takaichi is a member of Nippon Kaigi, a far-right ultraconservative organisation
UH OH
that argues for a reinterpretation of Japanese history
RED ALERT
amongst ultranationalist lines.
WELP
Oof. Well, I guess it had to happen to Japan someday. It's happened everywhere else. Here's hoping it doesn't last long and the damage is minimal.
Hey look at it this way, we may finally get our mechs out of this.
I mean, they may be the last thing you see, but at least we may see them.
Voters: Living expenses are too high, yen is weak and imports are expensive, we are suffering
Also voters: Let's make the status quo stronger
she's the anti-status quo candidate. it's just she will move the country even move to the right.
By making it more corrupt and less affordable. All these fascists are the same
we're all so fucked. ppl are morons.
reptile brains arent evolved for the power of algorithm propaganda. yes we are fucked by the right, but its only temporary until clinate change decimates everything.
Oh, thank goodness. Right wrong hell until mad Max times.
May you live in interesting times....
Bruh
Takaichi is known for favouring proactive government spending. She supports heavy government investment in critical strategic sectors in what she refers to as "crisis management investment". These include artificial intelligence, semiconductors, nuclear fusion, biotechnology, and defence.
Her other policies aside, the economic one looks like a winner.
I’m sure the shareholders will be happy.
Yeah, you're probably right. Just looked at unionization rate and it's around 16%. Workers won't see much from this investment.
Funny exerpt from wiki:
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the U.S. Occupation authorities initially encouraged the formation of independent unions, but reversed course as part of broader anti-Communist measures.
The cold war era propaganda and policies have really fucked everything up. There's a straight line between them and today's Republican/MAGA party that runs right through Reagan's economic policies. MAGA sits at the crossroads of that and the festering racism that was never dealt with following the civil war. Unfortunately America's world police mentality (and CIA fuckery, another result of the cold war) has spread those policies and attitudes to a bunch of other countries (who all for some strange reason have a dominant conservative media company owned by Rupert Murdoch, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence right?).
Japan has struggled with horrendous xenophobia for pretty much their entire history so this isn't really surprising even if it is disappointing. Unfortunately we're seeing a rise in far right parties around the globe and there are depressingly few liberal governments left. If this keeps up it's not going to take much to ignite WW3 with all these nationalists taking control.
She looks like a traditional japanese mask and that worries me.