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A True Hoser
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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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So they import everything from overseas!?
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.
True, but Mexico is in North America, Canada is in North America...
America is in North America, too!
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)
Right? Like "Screw America!" And then promptly pull your pants down and bend over for China.
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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One of these countries isn't arresting indigenous people for the crime of being insufficiently white.
No, they arrest or kill millions of them for being insufficiently Chinese, or millions more for being insufficiently Communist
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.
Persecution of Uyghurs in China
Both countries can be bad at the same time.
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.
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.
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.
That link doesn’t talk about them investigating more like investing.
Yeah, go ahead and do a Google search of Canada's treatment of indigenous people. I'll wait.
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.