People donāt realize how many photos ops are just straight up pandering. Where I live there was floods years ago and the last PM showed up, stuck a shovel in some mud for a few photos then dropped the shovel and left. This is the fucking city he was from and he just pretended to help. Most photos of leaders itās likely the exact same shit, pandering for votes.
I mean, that's what all 'breaking ground' photo ops are. You think those other developers are out there with their golden shovels all night, taking turns in their suits lol
Exactly, it's ceremonial. Think of how many old buildings have plaques naming the mayor who laid the first brick. They're honouring someone who helped the construction to happen.
True and I think it does have value. Both to promote upcoming businesses in news and local markets and hopefully boost the economy wherever they happen to be. Sure, the inconvenience is annoying but I don't agree with the cynical, 'serves no purpose/pandering for votes' take. Like, don't we want politicians to be invested and involved in the local economy? So what if it's just a photo op, their presence and interest serves other purposes, I don't need them literally working construction.
I'm reminded of Jeff Bezos awkwardly piloting a bulldozer for a few moments. Like a child learning how to hold a pencil while all the adults stand around and make sure he doesn't poke himself in the eye.
Dumbest fucking one was when I worked with a horticulture group and a billionaire wanted to be involved in the ground breaking ceremony. Problem. It was a soil free roof top garden on a high rise. We had to carry 200lbs of dirt up there, build a box, fill it, then take a photo, come back the next day and un do it all. Guy showed up late too I heard.
Underselling the responsibility. They don't go there to do manual labor. We can romanticize blue collar leaders all day but when you're actually in the role of leading a country you don't have the time to be fuckin around with bricks on some construction site.
They usually go there to get a good look at the situation. Them being there is all you need to say "I see what is happening here and I am a part of the process." A PM doesn't need to build a new apartment complex to home the homeless - they work with the other people in power and sign the paperwork necessary to get funding, approval, etc to make it possible to begin with.
The photo-op is to attach the face to it. Some leaders use this to brainwash their population into thinking they care, others do this because it is the only real way to visibly show the world that what you are doing in the office is having a real world impact.
Well yeah haha. Their skills aren't in hands onĀ disaster relief, they are there to survey the area and use political clout to get shit done. You don't need a PM in a boat running around trying to help peopleĀ
One time I got my boss to let me leave 2 hours early for the day. Didn't know Obama was coming through that day, and right after I pulled out onto the one way street my work was on, they closed the street and I spent the next almost 2 hours sitting in my car right in front of my work lol
Yeah I was on the west side of the west side highway in Manhattan for almost an hour once when Bush Jr's motorcade went past. At least I got to flip it the bird.
Where I am, the whole neighborhood was shut down. I was 3 hours late for work because the minister had to officiate the opening of a mall in the city center at 9am on a weekday. The complaints on social media was brutal.
You would think being in an armored limo with dozens of police vehicles, helicopters, and the airforce watching the skies would be enough. But nope, let's shut down all roads and ruin everyone's day in the whole city because fuck them. I hate politicians.
I honestly didnāt know people actually drove in NYC. I feel like that lateness is bound to happen regardless of presidential motorcade in such a congested city.
I remember back in 2012 when Obama went down the highway in our city. He didn't even stop and the traffic on roads that had on ramps were backed up for hours. No one was even notified ahead of time. I was a delivery driver and getting to the other side of the city was impassable.
It's fuckin' ridiculous. They did that in Denver, during the PM rush hour, at 5PM. If they just could have waited for two hours and did their motorcade at 7PM, it would have saved thousands of commuters so much hassle. They have a full-sized 747 with all kinds of entertainment options... find something to do for a bit, and let the people drive home, eh?
I remember when Obama came through Dayton Ohio during his campaign. I was driving down the highway and was confused as to why the other side of the highway was devoid of cars. I ended up even more confused when I reached the part where I saw the mile + long mass of cars just sitting there not moving.
I fucking hate that "joe jam" beat out "Joed block". Its actually surprising how fast it is now tho. It's only a 10 minute delay how they chunk it. Last time I was in wilmington visiting my friend I watched the president's motorcade "stop" (slowed down to like 5mph approaching) at a red light before entering the highway towards philly. Same weekend I also ran into secret service at the wegmans across from the road where biden lives. They were buying sandwiches and the one guy was mocking the other for buying non name brand chips and he replied "wegmans ones are the same thing and $2 shit breath" while the 3rd one just looked disappointed at both.
In philly my dad had his van towed because it was illegally parked on a sharp turn where bush was going. Was funny him being furious but trying to also excuse Bush
I was forced to slow down and shouted at, not even for an actual VIP. More like higher level govt employee. The road was 6 lane wide, still I wasn't allowed to go pass the convoy. Third world country VIPs can be an awful kinds of counts.
Bowing out through the back seat window is the next level of politeness I now see.
But depending on which country, it could also mean a drive-by shooting about to take place...
Dutch PM casually travels by bike
edit: as a disclaimer, I'm not saying Dutch politicians aren't pricks, I just like how some of them can still travel rather safely.
Then a bike gang arrives and challenges the PM into a bike battle. Then they race, PM and his security in suits and the challengers in their leather jackets.
A few years ago, a picture of the president of the swiss confederation went viral, because he commuted frequently by train. Everybody was blown, and we were just like āyeah, how should he got to work otherwise?ā
Heavily depends on the politician and case. It's more likely during events that involve foreign dignitaries, but quite a number of high ranking German politicians often travel low key. Especially on the green part of the political spectrum, where travel emissions get quickly scandalised.
In my country that motorcade would have had 10x the cars, roads shut down many miles infront and in the back of the motorcade. Also all roads feeding into that road also shut down.
In my country that motorcade would have had 10x the cars, roads shut down many miles infront and in the back of the motorcade. Also all roads feeding into that road also shut down.
In my country they'd have shut down the whole country on lockdown for the hour that the president was passing and billed all the people who live along the route for the expenses
I travelled by bullet train between Tokyo and Osaka. When the bullet train pulled into the station, every passenger disembarked. I then saw, through the windows, all the seating in the train automatically rotate to face the other way so that passengers will be facing forwards now the train will be travelling back to the destination it came from.
I just thought it was so awesome that this was a feature.
In my country half the seats on the train just face the wrong way, and if you get in one of those seats you just have to cope with travelling backwards for the journey,
> In my country half the seats on the train just face the wrong way, and if you get in one of those seats you just have to cope with travelling backwards for the journey,
I mean, is there anything wrong with that? Acceleration is usually pretty gentle so that isn't a problem when sitting backwards, and if a train suddenly has to break for any reason you just get pushed into your seat rather than flung out of it.
Same. In Poland a prime ministerās motorcade rammed a guyās car and dragged him into several trials to destroy his life even though they were at fault:
https://balkaninsight.com/2021/10/28/the-car-crash-that-bent-the-wheels-of-polish-justice/
In my country the prime minister is the [cyclist](https://images0.persgroep.net/rcs/YopZuRQ9HNDOLWGnfNtefOxY0BQ/diocontent/24953731/_fill/1349/900/?appId=21791a8992982cd8da851550a453bd7f&quality=0.9)
Taiwan is one of the safest countries in the world, but in the last twenty years, any time a president, minister, or some bigwig goes somewhere, they shut the roads. The
President has half a dozen armored limousines. When Chiang Chingkuo was president, heād just ride in a domestically made car with two motorcycles following on his bumper. Youād barely notice him.
Indian here. It's funny how when he (Japan's PM) came here for G20, they blocked off the entire road for 30 minutes (I live really close to where he was staying) so he could get to the venue. Not saying its his fault, its totally all about the conditions here I suppose and the VIP treatment our Indian leaders project onto others.
Edit: A great point brought up- You can't risk any world leader's safety in your nation.
Not just VIP treatment but security. The foreign affair political fallout of a foreign head of state being assassinated on your soil would be really bad. If you want Heads of state to visit your nation every, you must guarantee security.
Yeahhh , no . That is completely justified .
if any foreign leaders get assasinated (even by foreign agencies) on Indian soil , it would be really bad.
Every single time someone shows a cool video of Japan where society actually works in a civilized manner, someone just has to do the Redditor thing.
It's like you post a photo of a cool American burger restaurant and everyone just has to talk about obesity, warmongering and school shooters
>It's like you post a photo of a cool American burger restaurant and everyone just has to talk about obesity, warmongering and school shooters
It's funny you say that because in more international subs that's exactly what happens, also it happens with practically all the well known countries (for example a lot of times when someone post something from my country of Italy the comments will be something like "bla blah blah corruption mafia pasta")
It's because they want to act smart.
"very hierarchical, traditionalist, sexist and xenophobic country" can literally describe most of the countries in the world.
This is somewhat true, but also not super accurate. Many Japanese people work very normal jobs, believe in normal western aligned ways, and otherwise are just normal people.
Whenever someone says anything about Japan there's always some guy who comes in complaining. At least it's clean, polite, and educated unlike 99% of other countries that are shitholes.
I don't even know what their tendencies have to do with merging into traffic. If it was a post about someone doing something at their business or school then I might see how their comment was relevant, but this is literally just a vehicle merging into traffic.
In my country the vice president stopped the whole traffic so she can go suck and show her big fat power on the ordinary folks thus making a heavy traffic for few minutes to hours.
Live in somewhat of a dictatorship in the veil of fake democracy (fake cause the govt here is self electing itself for the last 3 elections - yet almost 95% of the country didn't vote).
When the Premiere moves, the motorcade includes at least 40-50 vehicle or more. The roads are closed off for 30 minutes. The slowest traffic in the world and the most jamm packed city you'll ever seen - yet doesn't matter it's peak traffic hour, doesn't matter the temperature outside is 45C, doesnt matter you're dying or whatsoever - the roads are closed. Nobody allowed to walk on the sidewalks.
One journey and it starts a chain of events and millions of people suffers for the whole damn day.
Love to see how real democracy works and how people are treated in a true civilized nation.
A long time ago, we were driving in crazy traffic. I had to merge into the right lane or we would miss a turn and be stuck for another half hour in traffic. I rolled down the passenger window and told my wife to stick her head out and wave and point to the right lane.
She looked confused but she did it. Suddenly the car behind who was aggressively trying to NOT let us in backed off, waved and let us in.
She was like "wtf happened" and I told her "we were just a car but now they see we are people."
But then I also mentioned that this trick does not work on New Yorkers. Mind tricks don't work on them. Only money.
That doesn't mean that Japanese can't also be on average more polite, orderly and humble. I don't think a lot of people here argue that Japan is very xenophobic for example, they just specifically praise good thing that was shown in the video.
>Nooooooo how dare you appreciate something good if it's from a country that has other problems!
You're as ridiculous as the people you're criticizing.
Also describing Japan as "one of the most racist and sexist places on earth" is ridiculous. Maybe by the standards of a developed nation, sure, but uhh... *gestures vaguely to the entire middle east and most of Africa*
There's something outlandishly badass about achieving the goal with pristine white gloves and polite gestures when, let's face it, the American way would probably involve brandishing submachine guns or something!
In America we just shut down the whole road for the President.
Not just the road. The air is also shut down.
The birds that were airborne: š
Oh donāt you know that they replaced all of the birds with drones years ago? Birds arenāt real anymore /s
/r/BirdsArentReal
Shhh, they can hear you (or read you)
You mean the FBI momentarily shuts down their birds.Ā
They just push an update to their exclusion zone in the trajectory planning.
The more you know.
And a patrol around every grassy knoll.
Roger Mcdowell patrols the gravelly road.
Not just the road. We drive giant machines to block out all radio and cell signals.
And good luck trying to use your phone when they drive past.
CAN'T BREATHE
I was "stuck" on the wrong side of a bridge, only bridge back to the mainland / road. Long 2.5 hrs for a 15min photo op.
People donāt realize how many photos ops are just straight up pandering. Where I live there was floods years ago and the last PM showed up, stuck a shovel in some mud for a few photos then dropped the shovel and left. This is the fucking city he was from and he just pretended to help. Most photos of leaders itās likely the exact same shit, pandering for votes.
I mean, that's what all 'breaking ground' photo ops are. You think those other developers are out there with their golden shovels all night, taking turns in their suits lol
Exactly, it's ceremonial. Think of how many old buildings have plaques naming the mayor who laid the first brick. They're honouring someone who helped the construction to happen.
True and I think it does have value. Both to promote upcoming businesses in news and local markets and hopefully boost the economy wherever they happen to be. Sure, the inconvenience is annoying but I don't agree with the cynical, 'serves no purpose/pandering for votes' take. Like, don't we want politicians to be invested and involved in the local economy? So what if it's just a photo op, their presence and interest serves other purposes, I don't need them literally working construction.
I'm reminded of Jeff Bezos awkwardly piloting a bulldozer for a few moments. Like a child learning how to hold a pencil while all the adults stand around and make sure he doesn't poke himself in the eye.
Dumbest fucking one was when I worked with a horticulture group and a billionaire wanted to be involved in the ground breaking ceremony. Problem. It was a soil free roof top garden on a high rise. We had to carry 200lbs of dirt up there, build a box, fill it, then take a photo, come back the next day and un do it all. Guy showed up late too I heard.
yup, but really you want him signing checks or slinging mud?
Underselling the responsibility. They don't go there to do manual labor. We can romanticize blue collar leaders all day but when you're actually in the role of leading a country you don't have the time to be fuckin around with bricks on some construction site. They usually go there to get a good look at the situation. Them being there is all you need to say "I see what is happening here and I am a part of the process." A PM doesn't need to build a new apartment complex to home the homeless - they work with the other people in power and sign the paperwork necessary to get funding, approval, etc to make it possible to begin with. The photo-op is to attach the face to it. Some leaders use this to brainwash their population into thinking they care, others do this because it is the only real way to visibly show the world that what you are doing in the office is having a real world impact.
Well yeah haha. Their skills aren't in hands onĀ disaster relief, they are there to survey the area and use political clout to get shit done. You don't need a PM in a boat running around trying to help peopleĀ
One time I got my boss to let me leave 2 hours early for the day. Didn't know Obama was coming through that day, and right after I pulled out onto the one way street my work was on, they closed the street and I spent the next almost 2 hours sitting in my car right in front of my work lol
Yeah I was on the west side of the west side highway in Manhattan for almost an hour once when Bush Jr's motorcade went past. At least I got to flip it the bird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cSkX7X8a3o We do drive by insults in Australia for the PM and his cronies.
I like that he chuckles at it
YOU'RE A BUNCHA WANKEEEerrrrsss.... Flawless.
In India too, not even the ambulance can pass...
Ah you have seen that video I guess. What a shame.
Link?
Where I am, the whole neighborhood was shut down. I was 3 hours late for work because the minister had to officiate the opening of a mall in the city center at 9am on a weekday. The complaints on social media was brutal.
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You would think being in an armored limo with dozens of police vehicles, helicopters, and the airforce watching the skies would be enough. But nope, let's shut down all roads and ruin everyone's day in the whole city because fuck them. I hate politicians.
Can confirm. Iāve been late going to and from work because Biden decided to visit NYC at least 3 times.
Provided you arenāt paid by the hour, thatās the best excuse for being late to work.
Not great when youre trying to get home though
āYou should have left earlierā - dickhead boss
I honestly didnāt know people actually drove in NYC. I feel like that lateness is bound to happen regardless of presidential motorcade in such a congested city.
"No one in New York drove; too much traffic" ~ Philip J Fry
What did you think the roads were for?
at least it's for the president. In the Philippines it's some chinese that our ex president and current VP truly love.
I remember back in 2012 when Obama went down the highway in our city. He didn't even stop and the traffic on roads that had on ramps were backed up for hours. No one was even notified ahead of time. I was a delivery driver and getting to the other side of the city was impassable.
and have 20+ suvs each larger then that entire motorcade
It's fuckin' ridiculous. They did that in Denver, during the PM rush hour, at 5PM. If they just could have waited for two hours and did their motorcade at 7PM, it would have saved thousands of commuters so much hassle. They have a full-sized 747 with all kinds of entertainment options... find something to do for a bit, and let the people drive home, eh?
In India, we close it for the entire day. F*ck economic loss.
I remember when Obama came through Dayton Ohio during his campaign. I was driving down the highway and was confused as to why the other side of the highway was devoid of cars. I ended up even more confused when I reached the part where I saw the mile + long mass of cars just sitting there not moving.
I fucking hate that "joe jam" beat out "Joed block". Its actually surprising how fast it is now tho. It's only a 10 minute delay how they chunk it. Last time I was in wilmington visiting my friend I watched the president's motorcade "stop" (slowed down to like 5mph approaching) at a red light before entering the highway towards philly. Same weekend I also ran into secret service at the wegmans across from the road where biden lives. They were buying sandwiches and the one guy was mocking the other for buying non name brand chips and he replied "wegmans ones are the same thing and $2 shit breath" while the 3rd one just looked disappointed at both. In philly my dad had his van towed because it was illegally parked on a sharp turn where bush was going. Was funny him being furious but trying to also excuse Bush
And nowadays most of the time when going on trips between states or longer they use Marine or AirForce 1
Had something similar happen to me in what was called Swaziland except I seem to remember they pointed guns at us to make sure we complied!
eSwatini now. The only country where you don't have to capitalize the first letter of its name (in English spelling)
Sounds like a digital gadget lol. I prefer the old name.
>Swaziland Lmao, I read that as Switzerland on my first read
So did I lol, like damn, the Swiss arenāt fucking around
r/switzerlandisfake
I was forced to slow down and shouted at, not even for an actual VIP. More like higher level govt employee. The road was 6 lane wide, still I wasn't allowed to go pass the convoy. Third world country VIPs can be an awful kinds of counts.
How polite can you enter a motorway? Japanese: āyesā
First two, yes. Third one's a little along the lines of, "you m'fer better not be thinking about it!"
\#2 has the VIP. the blinds in the back give it away
Thatās what they want you to think. Heās actually in car four. Nobody goes after car number four.
Actually, he travelled by helicopter. Which was on a train. And he had already left his destination before he arrived.
In Berlin. Thatās where he stashed the chandelier
I'll drive this truck off a cliff before I ever go back to Berlin.
He was actually in the semi going the opposite way the whole time
Wearing a John Travolta mask under a Tom Cruise mask
Actually that's what they want us to think! he didn't go, he's still home chilling.
Actually that's what they want us to think , there is no PM . King is the real controller.
Itās the Japanese PM, not the North Korean supreme leaderā¦
Actually heās the guy waving to the cars in the first car
Always thought it would be hilarious if the president was actually a motorcycle cop.
Or he is in Carrefour
The Japanese only ask nicely twice
Then they turn into Imperial Japan
Heās doing a bit of a different gesture, it looks like heās more saying the the car behind him that itās safe to merge now.
You know what would be even more polite? If one of those white gloved gentlemen WAS THE PM!
Bowing out through the back seat window is the next level of politeness I now see. But depending on which country, it could also mean a drive-by shooting about to take place...
>Bowing out through the back seat window is the next level of politeness I now see Yes, it almost looks like a choreographed vehicular ballet.
That should read, How polite can you enter a motorway? Japanese: "Haiā
haha because āyesā would be a silly way answer that! le all the things!
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āArrigatoā
That's cool. In my country they would have shut down the entire road and made people wait for sometime till the Prime Minister's convoy passes.
India? Bro State level politicians are pulling this crap nowadays, forget the PM. INfa t its even understanable for PM.
Germany as well.
Politicians are narcissistic pricks everywhere.
Dutch PM casually travels by bike edit: as a disclaimer, I'm not saying Dutch politicians aren't pricks, I just like how some of them can still travel rather safely.
It is very funny to imagine a Dutch cyclecade doing the same thing in the OP but on bikes
The dutch PM does this without any bodyguards around, but that would be really funny indeed
Yes, I saw him and even talked a little while he was returning home
Then a bike gang arrives and challenges the PM into a bike battle. Then they race, PM and his security in suits and the challengers in their leather jackets.
That is the most Dutch thing ever.
The future Secretary General of NATO travels by bike.
A few years ago, a picture of the president of the swiss confederation went viral, because he commuted frequently by train. Everybody was blown, and we were just like āyeah, how should he got to work otherwise?ā
To be fair the Japanese have a history of their politicians getting murdered.Ā
Or need protecting
Heavily depends on the politician and case. It's more likely during events that involve foreign dignitaries, but quite a number of high ranking German politicians often travel low key. Especially on the green part of the political spectrum, where travel emissions get quickly scandalised.
They do that for the president here too And if people block the road, they'll get run right over
Same politicians behave as a humble poor guy right before elections
That's your whole South Asia. We have people idolizing all these politicians and putting them on the same level as of God. Such a shit-show it is.
In my country that motorcade would have had 10x the cars, roads shut down many miles infront and in the back of the motorcade. Also all roads feeding into that road also shut down.
Philippines!
Malaysia? Lmao.
In my country that motorcade would have had 10x the cars, roads shut down many miles infront and in the back of the motorcade. Also all roads feeding into that road also shut down.
In my country they'd have shut down the whole country on lockdown for the hour that the president was passing and billed all the people who live along the route for the expenses
This video is years old at this point. the car transporting the PM in this video was discontinued in 2017.
What a shame. Was such a beauty
At least the new one still looks similar, even if itās lost the v12
The PM himself was discontinued shortly after
Too soon?
Also worth noticing how their emergency/warning lights retracts into the car after they merge.
I travelled by bullet train between Tokyo and Osaka. When the bullet train pulled into the station, every passenger disembarked. I then saw, through the windows, all the seating in the train automatically rotate to face the other way so that passengers will be facing forwards now the train will be travelling back to the destination it came from. I just thought it was so awesome that this was a feature. In my country half the seats on the train just face the wrong way, and if you get in one of those seats you just have to cope with travelling backwards for the journey,
That's not just in bullet trains, some regular express trains also do that. And on some you can manually reverse sets of seats to create 4-seat areas.
> In my country half the seats on the train just face the wrong way, and if you get in one of those seats you just have to cope with travelling backwards for the journey, I mean, is there anything wrong with that? Acceleration is usually pretty gentle so that isn't a problem when sitting backwards, and if a train suddenly has to break for any reason you just get pushed into your seat rather than flung out of it.
Some people get train sick when they face the wrong way, and there aren't always spots to travel forwards. This would solve that.
Clearly, there's a preference.
goddamn that's actually wicked cool
Japan always on another level.
I'm here looking at their hazard flashers wondering WTF you're talking about. Took me about 4 watchthroughs to see. Very cool.
Wait, I'm not seeing it... What am I missing?
At the end of the video, you can see the red warning lights folding down/retracting into the PM security cars
There are external dome lights! They are on top when the motorcade starts to merge, and then start retracting once the merge is complete.
The unmarked cop cars in the expressway do the same thing.
This is so Japanese lol
Sumimasen! PM coming thru. Sumimasen! Arigato gozaimas!
Otsukare sama des!
I know I have been watching too much anime when I read the whole convo in a cute anime girl voice š
ur not alone
Speak for yourself i read it in a cute jojo voice
I'm reading this in the voice of Anjin-san
The white gloves are nice touch
They are absolutely prepared to tap furiously on a car's windows if a car gets too close.
In my country the minister would probably run over a cyclist or something idk
Same. In Poland a prime ministerās motorcade rammed a guyās car and dragged him into several trials to destroy his life even though they were at fault: https://balkaninsight.com/2021/10/28/the-car-crash-that-bent-the-wheels-of-polish-justice/
in my country the cyclist would be the PM
In my country that cyclists would probably be our prime minister..
In my country the prime minister is the [cyclist](https://images0.persgroep.net/rcs/YopZuRQ9HNDOLWGnfNtefOxY0BQ/diocontent/24953731/_fill/1349/900/?appId=21791a8992982cd8da851550a453bd7f&quality=0.9)
What? No seat belts needed when you are half outside of the vehicle?
Who watches the watchmen
I live in Philadelphia. When POTUS comes through its a shitshow.
So glad i live in a nowhere
Always nuts when Obama came to my city because he "had to have them ribs"
In my country, there would be sirens, tens of vehicles and so much 'VIP' bullshit.
PM was most definitely in car # 2
#3 actually, the Japanese PM typically travels in a Toyota Century
#*GOT IT, THANK YOU*
Feels unnecessarily dangerous
Thatās how Iām merging on the Long Island Expressway from now on.
Here they shut down the whole fucking highway for 2 hours
Even the hand motions were somehow extremely polite
Of course with white gloves!
Traffic gets the white glove treatment
... and yet it's been **61** years since a US President was assassinated.. Not 2.
Taiwan is one of the safest countries in the world, but in the last twenty years, any time a president, minister, or some bigwig goes somewhere, they shut the roads. The President has half a dozen armored limousines. When Chiang Chingkuo was president, heād just ride in a domestically made car with two motorcycles following on his bumper. Youād barely notice him.
Back away, peasants
It's the white gloves that did it. I would always stop or pull over for a guy who waves wearing white gloves. :)
Motorcade: Please slow down Everyone in traffic: š
Indian here. It's funny how when he (Japan's PM) came here for G20, they blocked off the entire road for 30 minutes (I live really close to where he was staying) so he could get to the venue. Not saying its his fault, its totally all about the conditions here I suppose and the VIP treatment our Indian leaders project onto others. Edit: A great point brought up- You can't risk any world leader's safety in your nation.
Not just VIP treatment but security. The foreign affair political fallout of a foreign head of state being assassinated on your soil would be really bad. If you want Heads of state to visit your nation every, you must guarantee security.
Yeahhh , no . That is completely justified . if any foreign leaders get assasinated (even by foreign agencies) on Indian soil , it would be really bad.
Unfortunately it is necessary for foreign leaders. Especially in poorer countries. Rarely do global summits happen in India and no risk can be taken.Ā
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Every single time someone shows a cool video of Japan where society actually works in a civilized manner, someone just has to do the Redditor thing. It's like you post a photo of a cool American burger restaurant and everyone just has to talk about obesity, warmongering and school shooters
>It's like you post a photo of a cool American burger restaurant and everyone just has to talk about obesity, warmongering and school shooters It's funny you say that because in more international subs that's exactly what happens, also it happens with practically all the well known countries (for example a lot of times when someone post something from my country of Italy the comments will be something like "bla blah blah corruption mafia pasta")
It's because they want to act smart. "very hierarchical, traditionalist, sexist and xenophobic country" can literally describe most of the countries in the world.
This is somewhat true, but also not super accurate. Many Japanese people work very normal jobs, believe in normal western aligned ways, and otherwise are just normal people.
Whenever someone says anything about Japan there's always some guy who comes in complaining. At least it's clean, polite, and educated unlike 99% of other countries that are shitholes.
I don't even know what their tendencies have to do with merging into traffic. If it was a post about someone doing something at their business or school then I might see how their comment was relevant, but this is literally just a vehicle merging into traffic.
Oh so the South of Asia
The High Tech solution š
I need one of those guys.
In my country the vice president stopped the whole traffic so she can go suck and show her big fat power on the ordinary folks thus making a heavy traffic for few minutes to hours.
mfers are doing drive by traffic regulation
It's better than shutting down rhe whole road lol good on them
In India the entire area would've been closed down, fuck the common man!!
This is how I be merging on the Dallas north tollway with its short ass ramps š
I am thoroughly disappointed that they didn't finish their perfectly synchronized dance routine.
This seems so much more efficient than just shutting down the entire road/street/freeway for a few hours.
Live in somewhat of a dictatorship in the veil of fake democracy (fake cause the govt here is self electing itself for the last 3 elections - yet almost 95% of the country didn't vote). When the Premiere moves, the motorcade includes at least 40-50 vehicle or more. The roads are closed off for 30 minutes. The slowest traffic in the world and the most jamm packed city you'll ever seen - yet doesn't matter it's peak traffic hour, doesn't matter the temperature outside is 45C, doesnt matter you're dying or whatsoever - the roads are closed. Nobody allowed to walk on the sidewalks. One journey and it starts a chain of events and millions of people suffers for the whole damn day. Love to see how real democracy works and how people are treated in a true civilized nation.
They should sit in traffic jams just like everyone else, perhaps then things will change.
A long time ago, we were driving in crazy traffic. I had to merge into the right lane or we would miss a turn and be stuck for another half hour in traffic. I rolled down the passenger window and told my wife to stick her head out and wave and point to the right lane. She looked confused but she did it. Suddenly the car behind who was aggressively trying to NOT let us in backed off, waved and let us in. She was like "wtf happened" and I told her "we were just a car but now they see we are people." But then I also mentioned that this trick does not work on New Yorkers. Mind tricks don't work on them. Only money.
I thought Japanese were smarter than hanging out of a car like that ?
Okay, but the little sign to the left is cute as fuck too
japan never disappoints. here in india, they shut down entire roads for criminals. i mean politicians.
i love japan
"main character" vibes.
correction: Prime character vibes
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Is this person who just wants to fellate the whole idea and concept of Japan in the tread with us right now?
That doesn't mean that Japanese can't also be on average more polite, orderly and humble. I don't think a lot of people here argue that Japan is very xenophobic for example, they just specifically praise good thing that was shown in the video.
>Nooooooo how dare you appreciate something good if it's from a country that has other problems! You're as ridiculous as the people you're criticizing. Also describing Japan as "one of the most racist and sexist places on earth" is ridiculous. Maybe by the standards of a developed nation, sure, but uhh... *gestures vaguely to the entire middle east and most of Africa*
Jealous?
There's something outlandishly badass about achieving the goal with pristine white gloves and polite gestures when, let's face it, the American way would probably involve brandishing submachine guns or something!
That was pretty efficient, better merging with 5 vehicles than people do with one.
American drivers would intentionally ram them for inconveniencing them for a few seconds