StewofPuppies

StewofPuppies t1_ixuueh2 wrote

One black friday sale from a website stated "Up to 55% black friday sale!"

I've been getting email from them for several months and the same product that's being advertised as up to 55% off was the same product that's been 55% off for the whole year. The next biggest sale to that was 20% which has also been there for the whole month so far. Granted the platform/site is great and have amazing customer service/return policy/etcetc but it's one of those sites that has a "constant sale" on some items. Like that's not a sale.

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StewofPuppies t1_iwapa2h wrote

SK were like the Jews and Japan were like the Nazis but in Asia. This is oversimplification of it and it was a different kind of genocide.

Japan never really apologized or rather when they (politicians or leader figures) tried, it was often taken back or trivialized by other Japanese politicians or anonymous civilians making death threats to politicians who made attempts to apologize. There is still a strong alt right wing Za Warudo cult following in Japan that believes they did Korea and China a favor raping the women by the thousands and mutilating them because they brought industrialization.

While Japanese civilians are great and completely different from back then, politicians and the upper-echelon types are different. Remember when Ukraine compared Hirohito to Hitler and Mussolini? The comparison is pretty accurate and apt, speaking as a Korean myself who has Japanese relatives not by the war but by relatives marrying. Japan got angry at the comparison and demanded they apologize. The attitude of how Japan treats their atrocities of the past vs how Germany is very different. Let's be real; if Ukraine never apologized for that comparison of Hirohito = Hitler/Mussolini, Japanese government probably would have rescinded a lot of what they would later donate soon after the apology as aid in the war.

I think SK and Japan definitely can be allies and get to a better place. But the issue is everyone just wants to ignore these big elephants in the room and pretend the problems will solve itself. A lot of people will for example try to paint some of the resentment I feel as propaganda from China or CCP shilling which I have been called before. But until we address the elephants in the room and reconcile with these facts, we aren't going to get anywhere productive.

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StewofPuppies t1_iu6m9gs wrote

If you ask me, many of the modern society's most important roles are being gutted because there's no pay for them.

If you think this is gross, wait till you see what conditions many patients are living right now because of staff shortage in healthcare due to low pay and bad work conditions. On top of that you're the most likely to get assaulted aside from cops answering domestic calls. And for the most part society thinks low pay for healthcare workers is fixed because travelers made bank in covid. You got people wiping shit and having 30-50 patients to clean getting paid the same amount subs are getting paid. Say bye bye to a pain-free day without back pains.

I get capitalism is the best utility to Prop a society out of poverty but our current state of capitalism is literally causing our society to implode.

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StewofPuppies t1_is5hkjj wrote

And this is where some of thr states that are more expensive and have better policies for healthcsre are better. For example, our state is expensive to live in for the most part but it is easy access to healthcare due to the amount of capital we put into propping up safety nets. I work at a nonprofit and most of my patients are uninsured, undocumented or on the most basic free stuff tied to state not employment.

Florida by all means has as competent Healthcare standards but accessing it is much more difficult for the poor; thus in ranking system Florida drops pretty far in comparison to Jersey.

This doesn't mean people don't get screwed with fees but it tends to be more bearable than others.

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