• mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    american propaganda machine: “Chinese people are BRAINWASHED to LOATHE everything about America and ALL aspects of us and our lives”

    xiaohongshu:

    “hello american send picture of cat ☺️☺️”

    “you’re saying you need a loan just to go to college, and the rich buy their way in? how bad are these loans you speak of? 😧”

    “welcome foreigner pls pay cat tax 😊”

    “medical treatment is really very difficult for many of you? i heard some things were expensive there but i had no idea it was that bad, i’m sorry 😞”

  • roux [they/them, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Saw a post on there yesteraday where someone couldn’t believe some of us work 2 jobs just to be able to afford rent and food. I really hope this opens a lot of westerners eyes to to what is and isn’t propaganda.

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      1 year ago

      I never understood what is bad about “working 2 jobs”. (I don’t live in the US.) Is two 20 hour jobs not the same as one 40 hour job?

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Two 20 hour jobs is optimistic. Part-time is considered anything under 35 hours a week. It’s much more likely you’re going to be stuck trying to squeeze two 30 hour jobs into a single week because neither job is going to consider the schedule of the other and you’re going to be caught in between. And as others have said, neither jobs are going to give you the benefits a 40 hour job should be giving you, but are often screwing you out of because, in the US, pretty much nothing but cheap healthcare is guaranteed for 40 hours now.