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This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
by throwawayccp 4y ago
This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
- RhodesianHunter 4y agoHow do you even do that? I make an effort when I have a choice but so often it seems like there is no other choice.
- throwawayccp 4y agoFor instance i still use 10y old Dell 14r laptop. When it became slow to run windows i switched to u Ubuntu and added SSD (not china made). I might have purchased less than 10 made in china products in the past 3 years Something is better than nothing
- mynameisvlad 4y agoThat Dell was still certainly made in China. And the SSD, while not manufactured in China, likely had components which were. It's practically impossible to avoid it.
- nordsieck 4y agoIMO, the best one can practically do is to just buy used. It's not 0 support, but it's a lot less than buying new.
- pantalaimon 4y agoUsed hardware usually has better support in Linux anyway.
- daveguy 4y agoI think the point is they haven't purchased a new one in 10 years. Therefore, no more purchase from China.
- mynameisvlad 4y agoI mean Xi has been president for the last 10 years, so even that Dell would have supported ol' Winnie. For someone with such a strong anti-china stance (enough to create a throwaway), I'd expect full devotion to the cause.
- soperj 4y agoI think you're letting perfect be the enemy of good.
- throwawayccp 4y agoLaptop was purchased before XI became president. Agree we can't avoid completely but still doing something is better than nothing.
- throwaway894345 4y agoI'd be very interested in this, but it seems hard to determine the extent to which a product was manufactured in China. Do you have any resources that help with this?
- 4gotunameagain 4y agoI agree with funding cuts to the CCP, but there's an argument to be made that de-globalisation is a sure fire way to global conflict.. Mutual interests tend to keep things civilised
- neoromantique 4y agoRussia has already demonstrated that McDonald's theory doesn't work.
- LarryMullins 4y agoWW1 already demonstrated that "trade keeps peace" can't be counted on, but some people never learn. The argument was made and soundly debunked many years before anybody here was even born. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion
- KingOfCoders 4y agoHow could "trade keeps peace" prevent Russia paying Serbia to start a war to gro it's empire?
- rdevsrex 4y agoMaybe, but globalization is how China got industrialized so fast in the first place. Help your enemy get rich, and then watch as they push you off your place. Not a smart strategy either.
- 4gotunameagain 4y agoYes the difference could be that I am against US hegemony, and all for finally somehow growing up and attempting to avoid a catastrophic, planet annihilating conflict. That would probably require a different point of view than labelling China as the enemy, or keeping them pre-industrial and poor in order to control them, as the US has done repeatedly in many south American countries.
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- sockaddr 4y agoYup. I’m (trying) to do the same. Every little mindless purchase I used to make to fix some minor inconvenience slowly adds up to real harm for someone else at the hands of the CCP. Please stop buying from China. In fact, in recent times Lithuania has been a force for good against China, I’d suggest seeking out their goods if applicable to your needs.
- saltymug76 4y agoGenuinely curious, what has Lithuania done to stand up against China? And any suggestions on potential things one would buy from them over China? I would like to buy more from countries and people who aren't whipped by the CCP.
- spacemadness 4y agoStop buying from China means essentially buying nothing with a semiconductor. Unless you mean something else.
- sockaddr 4y agoWell, there are many things in your life that you buy from China that don't have a semiconductor in it. For instance, I was shocked to find out that a lot of "Brazilian" honey was actually rebranded corn syrup imported from China and cut with low-grade Chinese honey, this all to get around U.S. import restrictions due to the lack of quality/safety regulation in China. It's expensive, it's tiring, it's hard. But, in the end I feel it's worth it for the safety of my family and others. Whether it's honey, a sketchily-soldered power supply, or some completely fake lithium ion battery for your vacuum that only has 25% of rated capacity and might burn your house down, it's best to stay away from the Chinese option if you can.
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- ss108 4y agoI want to, but it's tough. How have you been filtering things?
- consumer451 4y agohttps://old.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/ https://old.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/
- ss108 4y agoThanks
- throw4738465 4y agoThat subreddit caused a huge Streisand Effect for me. I saw so many cool, affordable products that didn't have any alternatives (or the alternatives were too expensive) I ended up buying even more things!
- jstummbillig 4y agoWhy do you write this on a throw away?
- puszczyk 4y agoBecause they take notes, and they may come for the OP one day?
- blackoil 4y agoIf that's your hill, add Turkey, India and Russia to the list. Brazil we'll know in few days.
- widowlark 4y agoWhat about Brazil? I thought Bolsonaro was out?
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- FpUser 4y agoThe list is actually much longer. Also the should consider to stop buying things made by prison labor.
- FalconSensei 4y agoThe list is probably too long to keep up, realistically speaking. But I think any positive change in our spending habits (e.g. cutting off China and Russia) are good
- buildsjets 4y agoI cannot think of any product that I have purchased in the past 50 years that was made in Turkey or India. I once bought a replacement carburetor for a woodchipper, and it was made in Russia, but that's all I've seen from there. These are not exactly manufacturing and exporting powerhouses, it's pretty trivial to avoid them if you want to, compared to China.
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- cpursley 4y agoWhere was the device and it’s components you typed this comment out on made?
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- FpUser 4y ago>"This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China" This is plain lie. At the very best you could stop buying end consumer products made and shipped from China. Assuming that things mad in the West are free from Chinese components / materials is a delusion
- bilqis 4y agoWhile individual consumers do such choices to feel better about themselves/feel like they’re doing something, big capital is pumping money nonstop to China. It’s the same with Russia. It has been overflowed with money from EU before and during the war, and stop buying Russian goods will only affect individuals not buying it (and perhaps local sellers, too).