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They are vivisecting political prisoners in concentration camps. If we can't be bothered to spend our blood stopping them can we at least stop spending our money supporting them.

It's time for a complete cessation of trade with this generations nazi party.

We were ashamed by how many corporations dealt with nazi Germany after the rise of hitler but before the war.

Let us not be shamed again.

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This type of deep injustice getting mostly ignored by the loudest activitist-type people has made me realize most people would rather throw crap at their local "enemies" and use wedge issues to score points. I mostly get blank looks or shrugs when you bring up serious injustice from a global perspective, or worse get accused of "distracting" from wherever they are worked up over.

I'm not sure if Americans are up for starting another foreign conflict. If we can't even fix the problems closest to us, why do we expect to do any better for problems across the ocean? Yes China bad, but what can we do? Punish them economically during a worldwide pandemic and push a nuclear power into a corner?

Conflict is one thing, but isn't that the same type of things people said about Nazi Germany in the 30s?

In the end, America did join the fight and took part in defeating the Nazis. But back then was a different time. I don't think Americans are too excited to get into another conflict they'll yet again be blamed for any of the negative effects to come out of it.

Are you American? Aren't you tired of playing hero? I'm tired of getting involved and then becoming a target of hate and demoralization.

I'm really more talking about ground level activism, boycotts, "raising awareness", etc not military action or conflict.

I'm talking about nationwide pullback from all economic entanglement with China starting with escalating tariffs designed to make trade with china difficult and subsequently economically impossible followed by a ban on US citizens doing business with China directly or by proxy.

I'm not talking about using trade as a lever to control them. I'm talking about giving up on pretending that doing business with them is going to change a totalitarian state into anything but a more economically successful totalitarian state.

America should be able to take its dollars elsewhere without engaging in armed conflict or "playing hero"

They wont stop doing evil and it seems unlikely that sufficient internal pressure exists in the context of an economically successful China.

Since we can't stop them from doing evil the only question is what degree of global power and influence they have in the coming years. Stopping all trade with them hurts them vastly more than it does us and ultimately handicaps their economy. The likely result is them dealing with a massive recession not nuclear war.

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