That's not petty, that's just being smart
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Pettiness and pragmatism are two wildly different things. I'd also count her as pragmatic.
"Was." That's Abe and he was assassinated a few years ago.
Wasn't the assassination due to some connection to a church if I recall correctly
Yeah, Moonies. I can't remember why him. The kid that did it, his mom was grifted 100k or something. That's all I remember though.
It was because Abe, like other LDP politicians, had an history of propping up the Church of Unification cult. The shooter picked him specifically because of a video of Abe speaking in one of their churches. Abe's family in particular has connections to the cult since the very foundation, and their ties to the LDP are something out of a "Like A Dragon"/"Yakuza" plot.
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Most successful political assassination in recent memory. The shooter got everything he wanted and then some.
Inspiring, really.
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She is still alive, though, and may have been avoiding taking to Trump by not knowing English all along!
with a doohickey gun some dude made in his basement, no less.
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To be fair, the Orange Shitgibbon barely speaks english itself.
Is it possible to learn this power?
Anybody whose able to speak another language than english can do it.
But that does exclude a lot of americans.
you don't even actually have to speak another language. just make shit up. babble like a fundie "speaking in tongues" and repeat "no speakey eni englche"... helps if you can go a little castor-eyed and pull out the crazed weirdo look.
But please don't try that with bilinguals. We may not understand you but we have plenty of experience knowing what a foreign language sounds like.
I've had two people pull that shit on me and all they did was lose my respect for thinking I'm that stupid.
While I get what you're saying, I'm not sure whether people who are pretending to speak another language in order to avoid talking to you really care after they have your respect.
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that's how i reply to talkative hobos on the street
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no hablo ingles.
no entender
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As an English speaking American, I would attempt the same thing.
“Oh. I don’t speak or understand any of the English language at all, so I cannot talk to you or your staff.”
Back in his first term
Well its worked for Melania all these years....
Rest in Piss bozo
That is the opposite of being petty.
To be fair, she can get away with it, unlike, say, Queen Elizabeth II.
She gets away not talking to trump, mostly because she's dead.
*pretending to be dead. Now we know the real reason she "died"
I wouldn't utter a single word to that turd.
I'm on public transport and I just giggled. Love it.
lol nice
Same griftbitch that just went to hang out with Putin?
I'm not sure I would call it "petty"... :)
Why would she do that, she's married to a fascist
I think Hitler would have hated Trump. Pretty sure he did end up hating Mussolini. Fascism isn't a big friendship club.
Hitler considered Italians to be racially inferior to even the French. Also there was little cooperation between the axis powers. They didn't share much technology and or industrial power. Unlike the allies who were far more cooperative.
For example many people make a big deal about Hitler's plan for nuclear weapons... but what no one talks about is Japan's nuclear program... and how much closer they got to making a functioning nuke. There was very little information sharing between Japan and Germany, however.
In terms of industry, the Italian air force often had decent airframes but poor engines. The Germans had excellent engines but didn't do much to help the Italians with their air force logistical issues.
Take this in comparison to the US which absolutely flooded its allies with everything from cutlery to explosives to fuel and everything in-between. The Soviet army was bolstered greatly by American trucks, jeeps, and heavy machinery that would have made winning the war incredibly difficult.
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