One month ban for pointing out that consumerism bad. What a shithole of a site over there on the grad.

  • SleepySaf [any]@hexbear.netOP
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    8 days ago

    I wrote my first comment out of frustration after writing out a whole comment and then deleting it because it was more effort than it was worth. And then I ended up needing to write basically the comment out again in the reply.

    And it’s not consumerism in China that’s the problem. It’s consumerism in America that’s the problem, obviously, because China and particularly Shein is manufacturing for export. China is serving a market need, and I think they are uniquely poised to exploit their position to serve this need in a way nobody else is. The West provides the incentive, China capitalizes on it. But quite frankly at this point it would be incredibly tiring to write out a nuanced take with enough caveats, counter criticism of the west, and sugarcoating to appease the dogmatists who take any criticism of China as evidence of liberalism.

    I’m going to touch grass and I think so should y’all, because you can’t be nuanced without writing a whole dissertation here ig.