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A True Hoser (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/pics@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34858378

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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (20 children)

So they import everything from overseas!?

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Many things already are, but it's not an environmental choice but a boycott so it's not about being overseas or not anyways. Why support a country that's actively hostile to you, ya know?

    In practical terms it tends to be buying the strawberries from Mexico instead of California for example. The grocery stores literally have little maple leaf symbols on the prices to help, and little tariff symbols as well. Plus people aren't traveling to the US as that's a way of not "buying" from there too, often opting to travel within that country or overseas.

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  • [+] -16 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    True, but Mexico is in North America, Canada is in North America...

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    I get your point and I find it annoying that US Americans have ended up taking what should have been a more generic demonym for the Americas too but it is generally the accepted term for those living to our immediate south (at least in English-speaking Canada)

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  • [+] -30 points 9 months ago (15 children)

    Right? Like "Screw America!" And then promptly pull your pants down and bend over for China.

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago*

    Are you serious? Even ignoring the fact that doing deals with China is not "pulling our pants down and bending over", the fact is we, as a non-superpower, need to sometimes choose the lesser of two evils and only one of the two countries is repeatedly insulting and threatening our sovereignty. Your reduction of our work on diversifying our economy in the face of (active) economic and (potential) military invasion by the USA is so maddening

    edit: I assume you're American?

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (11 children)

    One of these countries isn't arresting indigenous people for the crime of being insufficiently white.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Persecution of Uyghurs in China

    Both countries can be bad at the same time.

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    I literally just came from Xinjiang. Yeah no I'll trust my own eyes and the Uhigurs I'm still in contact with over some article sourcing people who literally have never been there.

    This is some "Portland is a warzone"-level shit.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah no I'll trust some rando on social media over actually seeing multiple news threads from several trusted sources and has been widely known globally for the last few decades.

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Trusted sources that promoted the same lies that got us into Iraq and Afghanistan.

    As far as known globally, you mean known to America and its vassals. Muslim countries have sent delegations to investigate Xinjiang.

    But I'm sure the guys who've been bombing muslim countries for 50+ years should be trusted to give a shit about the human rights of Muslims.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    No, they arrest or kill millions of them for being insufficiently Chinese, or millions more for being insufficiently Communist

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago

    Regarding your first link, lmao.

    I am in China right now, I spent a couple months in Xinjiang and left earlier this week

    Literally anyone can go there, there's no travel restrictions. Theres also a significant Uhigur population in Kazakhstan, whom anybody can talk to.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, go ahead and do a Google search of Canada's treatment of indigenous people. I'll wait.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I like how everyone in this thread is pretending that there are good guys somewhere when in the entire history of humanity there have never been good guys.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Did you mean to respond to someone else? I'm vaguely aware of the schools, starlight tours, and Trudou letting oil companies poison first nations water supplies, but I don't see where Canada comes into opposing support for America.

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