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The previous minister was fired after they admitted they didn't have to experience the expensive rice because they were given free rice by farms in Japan

• 0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
  That is some bizarre obliviousness of privilege. I thought all of the more-equal-animals knew to keep quiet on the implicit bribes and other luxuries of their station.
  • mc3301 1y ago
    It's rather quite the opposite in Japan. The "more-equal-animals" consistently make public completely oblivious remarks, only to apologize the following day and then (often) just go back to business as usual.
    • deadbabe 1y ago
      I think this is driven by the fetish to be extremely apologetic in Japanese culture.
      • mc3301 1y ago
        I don't think the grey-haired dinosaur politicians are sexist, classist (is that a word?) and racist because they love to apologize.
        • Dylanlacey 1y ago
          Yeah, their imperviousness to either progress or consequences is kind of incredible. An entire nation of collectivist, rule-following tendencies with a scummy layer of cartoonishly evil folks at the top, who for some reason seem immune from having to be decent people.
          • mc3301 1y ago
            And yet, somehow, it's a generally pleasant country to live in with happy healthy people and opportunity. Though, that momentum Japan's been running on seems to be running out.
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  • bananalychee 1y ago
    These days it seems preferable to the Western alternative of politicians blatantly lying about their class to avoid the label.
    • gerdesj 1y ago
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