• intelshill@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    EU bans China cotton imports for “human rights”

    EU shocked when China ends cotton exports to the EU and the EU can’t produce gunpowder (which needs cotton)

    I know this may seem unusual, but actions have consequences

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      8 months ago

      This is normal. Upscaling any production will show you where the bottlenecks in your supply chain are.

      It is shitty in the current context, but still banning products due to human rights abuses is a good thing.

      Now the aim is to resolve the bottleneck post haste.

      Your entire post reads as an accusation, the quotes around human rights makes it seem you think it’s nonsense.

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        8 months ago

        Because it is. Regardless of if there are actual abuses or not is completely missing the point, this is a pattern of abuse from the right where they’ll bullshit up a reason for them to do the things they wanted to do anyway. 99.99% of the time the “abuses” are just outright fabrications. Just look at the Uighur narrative; at first the US literally pulled it out of their ass to distract from the very real fascist radicalizing they were doing in the area, and it’s been slowly crumbling as more and more of the “evidence” they provided turned out to be complete and utter bullshit. It was never about the Uighurs, these same people are celebrating the decimation of Muslims in Gaza to this day.

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      8 months ago

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      Hrm, maybe billionaires buying up all of the sources of media MIGHT have some sort of… what was that word again?