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ThreadbareHalo t1_iyayh9t wrote

Reply to comment by PandaBearShenyu in Forced Uyghur labor is being used in China's solar panel supply chain, researchers say by chrisdh79

Can they? They’re asking what the logic is for the us getting in on xinjiang’s textile industry when the investigation started. I think that’s a reasonable question for people to ask cause I don’t think the us has expressed interests in becoming a cheap textile manufacturer

I’d be more inclined to believe the logic behind these refutations if A) it wasn’t pretty apparent that some karma mucking was being done cause who on earth is looking this deep into this thread to upvote their response… and B) if the logic was internally consistent. But it isn’t… the US wasn’t interested in the industries xinjiang had when these claims first arose and if the us wanted to stir up trouble why on earth would they choose to do it with a comparably tiny minority group that’s currently as locked down as it can possibly be. Would be like trying to take down the US by riling up the Amish.

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PandaBearShenyu t1_iyaynk7 wrote

There is reasonable, then there's wasting everyone's time by being deliberately obtuse like a five year old that just keeps asking "why" to every explanation. You're firmly in the latter.

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ThreadbareHalo t1_iyazkev wrote

Respectfully if your argument is “it’s a bad thing to ask why on things that don’t make sense”…. Then your argument seems pretty damn weak. If China is in the right here there should be some logically consistent reasons for those questions. And if people are convinced in the absence of those logically consistent reasons then… ok I guess but they definitely shouldn’t be portraying themselves as the ones “asking for proof”.

Like… if china wants to seem to the world like the reasonable one, this whole “just accept what you’re being told and stop asking questions” mentality is… hoping that a bunch of people are seriously subservient and easily convinced and I don’t think that’s the case for most people nowadays.

Edit: I’m not sure blocking me because you want to preemptively assume what I’m writing is wrong or pointless is the best argument for you being logical or right either…

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PandaBearShenyu t1_iyb0etg wrote

Listen, I'm genuinely not interested in getting into this with you since you will just bait me into thinking your long winded talking in circles have any content and waste my time, I'm literally just making an observation.

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