democracy is pretty hard in Turkey: just a small example: Bedia Özgökçe Ertan was elected as mayor of Van, then sentenced to 30 years of prison just for what she said.
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This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
I 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
Russia has already demonstrated that McDonald's theory doesn't work.
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This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
I 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
Maybe, 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.
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This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
I 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
That argument gets longer in the tooth by the day. It presupposes a certain amount of shared values.
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How 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.
For 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
That 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.
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#126Just like in China with the anti-lockdown protests. The people who are recognisable on social media posts from the protests have all been arrested by now. They waited just long enough to make people forget about it before they picked them up one by one.
This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
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#127Just like in China with the anti-lockdown protests. The people who are recognisable on social media posts from the protests have all been arrested by now. They waited just long enough to make people forget about it before they picked them up one by one.
This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
I want to, but it's tough. How have you been filtering things?
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Off-topic: Do most people there prefer "Türkiye" or "Turkey?"
There was an official name change [1] to Türkiye. 1. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/2/un-registers-turkiye...
I'm very well aware of that.
Whenever I've been on the receiving end of a name change like that, I (and everyone I knew) found it obnoxious.
However, cultures differ. Turkey has a long history with name changes, and has been rather aggressive about them. When it became "Turkey," the post office wouldn't deliver mail unless the new name was used. Likewise, the capital has gone through two names since "Byzantium."
I was genuinely curious about local reaction. I have no idea, from the other end of the world, whether this was imposed by Erdogan as a crazy policy to everyone's annoyance, or whether it is wildly popular. I assume somewhere in between.
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#129Just like in China with the anti-lockdown protests. The people who are recognisable on social media posts from the protests have all been arrested by now. They waited just long enough to make people forget about it before they picked them up one by one.
This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
Why do you write this on a throw away?
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This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
I want to, but it's tough. How have you been filtering things?