political violence works and is good sometimes actually

in japan, assassination is a legitimate form of political protest

Traditional Japanese forms of protest:

Kill others

Kill yourself
- Sometimes the order in which these protests are carried out may surprise you
- in the us they usually do that to schools.
  
  imagine if they actually kill people that matter.

The title of this post is disturbing.

It’s unfortunate but in a lot of cases it’s the only thing that will work. Peaceful protest can help when protesting against a group that could be viewed as rational, if not, most people won’t just lie down if the conditions they are protesting don’t improve, and more drastic action becomes one of the few options left.
- People here agitating for political violence are acting like this legislation is something like police reform or oil production rates when it's actually just a relatively small thing which won't negatively affect anyone in power and is generally considered popular.
  
  He'd probably have got it into the public dialog with a good pop song too.
  
  Honestly the reason this is interesting news is because it's so uncommon, normally governments and the public shift away from whatever violent radicals support because they don't want to be associated or don't want to appear weak.
- The title of the post could've also been written "sometimes, murder is good". I don't think that's anything to defend just because sometimes violence has resulted in a better situation later.
Y'all up in here bitchin like you weren't just giggling bout that guillotining billionaires meme
- The thing that makes gallows humour gallows humour and not violence is the humour part. There is a huge difference between joking about guillotines and actually using them
- I'm glad you know what I saw and how I reacted and that it's inconsistent. Great job!
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- Because the political violence mentioned in the title is murder. The title is "murder works and is good sometimes actually". And the 'sometimes' mentioned here is when a man held a grudge against the Unification Church, couldn't find a chance to kill high ranking members of the church and then decided to kill the former PM because he had connections to it and was easy enough to find.
  
  This is not okay, and very far from "good".

Can someone link to this story. What am I missing?

Yagami Tetsuya assassinated Abe Shinzo, former PM of Japan, while he was drumming up support for a candidate from his party. The motive was his mother draining the family savings account to donate to a Christian cult known as the Unification Church, aka Moonies. He actually wanted to kill the Moonie leadership but deemed it unrealistic, so he went after Abe who had ties to the cult. After the assassination, it came out that a lot of Japanese leadership had ties to the cult and there was a bit of a witch-hunt.
- Calling the Moonies Christian is... Debatable.
  
  The founder got excommunicated by the Presbyterians.
  
  Really good Behind the Bastards episodes on them btw.
Guy's mother joined a cult and ended up donating the family's entire savings, leaving them in poverty. He's supper pissed about the conditions they live in and eventually assassinates the former PM who was apparently involved with said cult somehow. Now it seems the government is earnestly considering the conditions which created such despair in the man.

I'm just working off memory, but that's the basics of it I think.
- I mean, killing a member of the government will definitely get the government's attention.

What is the context for this, why do they need refunds?

The assassination of Shinzo Abe. Former prime minister of Japan.

In short, and I'm working on memory, the assassin killed Abe because Abe was very friendly with a religous cult. Said cult had brainwashed the assassins mother and made her penniless.