Did you know that #Shinzo Abe's grandfather was known as a #monster?
This is a 19-point #thread on the tumultuous years during & after #WW2 from Japan's POV, on the #problem of #US peace-keeping efforts & on Japan's ongoing nepotism issues.
4/ In the Fushu Mine - a key player in the industrial plan laid out by Kishi, 25k people a year needed to be replaced due to dying from #poor conditions. Kishi saw the Chinese as "more dog than human", so he wasn't much phased.
Month until I am 30, and all of my dream are about relatives, dead, living, and imagined, and how would they react knowing I am trans and in need of surgery within 4 weeks.
I am trying to be chill, knowing that all banks have declined our loan, quick loans only offer 4K, and we are asking help from my partner's relatives...yet my dreams are mazimum un-chill.
I wish I had been born gold-spoon and not one-use-only-brittle-plastic-spoon.
✔️ "The working-class is getting poorer, while the ownership-class is getting richer."
Lower, middle, and upper class definitions simply divide the working-class into income levels, focusing on how much they make rather than how they make it.
This does nothing but divide workers and distract from the real issues of how they're exploited. There are two classes that really matter: the working-class and ownership-class.
"As people increasingly experience overlapping #climate impacts, it is critical that the #media articulately convey the interconnected nature of climate change," said McAllister. "There is a biased narrative, that reporting in less-resourced countries is less comprehensive, but we found the opposite: Media in the more-resourced countries have much to learn from media in the most vulnerable countries."
Ineptocracy can be defined as a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of (thinking deeply and broadly) and producing goods and services.
Have a good day, though, I recognize those days are few and inbetween if you paying attention. @ruthbenghiat#Strongmen#Poor&Irationals
so many #boycotts are so easy to do by being #poor like i saw an #influencer in a high rise loft apartment on #tiktok saying to boycott #chanel and it’s like of course baby i am twenty steps ahead of you, we are in entirely different brackets
#Republicans#hate their own #constituents, and never pass up an opportunity to make their lives more difficult. In #Iowa, they literally want #poor#children to #starve. This isn't hyperbole, either. It's their actual words and policies.
#Republicans are #outraged that a program to provide discounted #internet access to #poor people is #spending#money on providing discounted internet access to poor people. You can't make this shit up!
So if if a #poor person steals from a #corporation they go to jail. If #corporations in this case #hospitals breaks the law & steals millions from poor people no one goes to jail. This is what passes for #justice in #america
What newly elected Argentinian president Javier #Milei has promised to do is a combination of impossibility, and inhuman barbarity.
#PublicEducation - gone #Healthcare - gone
Women's rights - gone #LGBTQ rights - gone
Environmental protections - gone
Taxation on the wealthy - gone #Labor rights - gone
Milei haș taken it so far as to say that #poor people should sell their body parts, children, and organs to wealthy people for rent and medical expenses.