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this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2023
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It's hilarious to me that the liberals that I know that complain about all the garbage being made in China don't realize that their favorite stuff is also made in China.
You see these online reviewers spreading signophobia by being like "hey this item is made in China just letting you know". As if it means anything.
Then they cope so hard when their favorite stuff says "designed in America" or "made in America with global parts" which in reality just means that 99% of it was manufactured offshore and it was only assembled here or they just slapped a label on it. Such bullshit.
Then again most people don't care. I just know a bunch of liberal douchebags.
A lot of that whining is just getting what you paid for and then coping with racism. Like, yeah if you buy the cheapest possible stuff you can find it's probably gonna suck. But that's not because Chinese goods are poorly made, it's because cheap goods are poorly made.
I would say that price hasn't had any bearing on quality for a decade at least. People are just holding this underlying assumption that "more expensive" = "higher quality" but most expensive stuff is just branded with a fancier brand and is often made in the exact same factory as the "cheap" option.
That's true for some stuff (premium cables come to mind) but there's also some things you should still be suspicious of if they're being sold dirt cheap, like tools. I wouldn't trust a dollar store saw to cut anything