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hi5eyes 7y ago
ya lets start a petition and protest!
microcolonel 7y ago
At the personal level, I prefer to consume from and do business with Taiwan anyway. The CCP and their third-rate institutions and lapdogs have caused me considerable inconvenience, and they are completely unaccountable, so it's an easy choice.
tinza123 7y ago
You should join the army and fight for that.
thefounder 7y ago
What makes China "the enemy"?
- scarcelycoher 7y ago
  It's good for a society to have a enemy. Suicide rates are way lower during war time than during peace time, and people are much nicer to each other. Also it keeps people busy and give their life meaning and a sense of purpose.
- meruru 7y ago
  It's a dictatorship with no concern for human rights. You decide whether to call it an "enemy" or not, but I think we should definitely avoid doing business with them.
  - thefounder 7y ago
    Yeah yeah yeah... Is Saudi Arabia an enemy too? You can lie yourself all day long but America doesn't stand for democracy, freedom and all that BS. It stands for its interests. The moral values are invoked only when they are aligned with US's interests.
    - meruru 7y ago
      >Saudi Arabia an enemy too Drop the "enemy" talk. If there are good reasons not to do business with Saudi Arabia you can state them and if there are good reasons not to do business with America you can state those as well. None of that is relevant to whether there are good reasons to not do business with China.
      - thefounder 7y ago
        That's my point too. It's just business. Democracy, human rights and freedom have no value. Saudi Arabia beheads, hangs people in public squares, butchers reporters and does everything an "evil" government could do. However it is praised(by the US) as a great "beautiful" country and gets the latest "beautiful" military gear to spread its "goodness" to other countries such Yemen. If there is one example that clears the fog about the US's stance on business and human rights that is Saudi Arabia. I'm pretty sure the US would do business with a Nazi Europe as well if Hitler would have persuaded the US to become business partners instead of war enemies.

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ya lets start a petition and protest!

At the personal level, I prefer to consume from and do business with Taiwan anyway. The CCP and their third-rate institutions and lapdogs have caused me considerable inconvenience, and they are completely unaccountable, so it's an easy choice.

tinza123 7y ago

You should join the army and fight for that.

thefounder 7y ago

What makes China "the enemy"?

scarcelycoher 7y ago
It's good for a society to have a enemy. Suicide rates are way lower during war time than during peace time, and people are much nicer to each other. Also it keeps people busy and give their life meaning and a sense of purpose.
meruru 7y ago
It's a dictatorship with no concern for human rights. You decide whether to call it an "enemy" or not, but I think we should definitely avoid doing business with them.
- thefounder 7y ago
  Yeah yeah yeah... Is Saudi Arabia an enemy too? You can lie yourself all day long but America doesn't stand for democracy, freedom and all that BS. It stands for its interests. The moral values are invoked only when they are aligned with US's interests.
  - meruru 7y ago
    >Saudi Arabia an enemy too Drop the "enemy" talk. If there are good reasons not to do business with Saudi Arabia you can state them and if there are good reasons not to do business with America you can state those as well. None of that is relevant to whether there are good reasons to not do business with China.
    - thefounder 7y ago
      That's my point too. It's just business. Democracy, human rights and freedom have no value. Saudi Arabia beheads, hangs people in public squares, butchers reporters and does everything an "evil" government could do. However it is praised(by the US) as a great "beautiful" country and gets the latest "beautiful" military gear to spread its "goodness" to other countries such Yemen. If there is one example that clears the fog about the US's stance on business and human rights that is Saudi Arabia. I'm pretty sure the US would do business with a Nazi Europe as well if Hitler would have persuaded the US to become business partners instead of war enemies.