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[–] Hegar@fedia.io -5 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I don't get how suicide nets is a knock on china. They're making our phones.

It's our consumer demand and our company's price points that are responsible for the conditions in the factories that make our phones.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

So are you saying that in the glorious Chinese workers paradise they don't set and enforce decent health and safety policies and regulate working conditions and wages for the benefit of their citizens? Paint me amazed!

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

the glorious Chinese workers paradise

The scary thing is they genuinely believe this.

I had responded to a tankie who claimed that China wasn't an oligarchy by sarcastically asking if they thought the workers control the government, and like 5 different (or are they?) hexbears descended on me to tell me that yes, akshually, they do (and therefore must be the most self loathing workers on the planet, if those are the conditions they inflict on themselves, and curiously keep "electing" the same authoritarian, billionaire, dictator to be at the top of their ~~classless~~, ~~moneyless~~, ~~stateless~~ society). 🤦‍♀️

E: on a side note since I've got you here and you're an admin, I thought this instance was defederated from hex, and I have them on my personal blocked instance list, should I still be seeing their users?

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

You can still come across their users if they post in a community external to Hexbear, even if you have instance blocked them. Our instance actually isn't defederated from Hexbear fyi. They mostly leave us in peace nowadays though, so unless you go looking for a fight on their instance, you're unlikely to run into problems with them.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Aww, why the downvote @Cowbee@lemmy.ml? That was one of my more diplomatic posts too lol.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

To be fair, didn't mean to downvote that one.

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

I remembered seeing some drama between the two instances from before I moved over to db0, so I just assumed off the back of that, but good to know, thanks! Definitely don't go looking for them, I have better things to do with my time and little remaining sanity lol

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 8 hours ago

because the Chinese public isn’t supposed to know about it… plus people might demand more ethically produced phones if they were more aware.

[–] araneae@beehaw.org 5 points 8 hours ago

China decided to play ball with the slave economy because it makes scads of money. If they were interested in pushing fucking state communism and raising the quality of living perhaps this was the wrong move. I suppose the counterargument would be that letting the west export its manufacturing sector somewhere else would have been a missed opportunity, but perhaps (and I say this as an American) the better move ideologically would have been not to engage with manufactory colonialism for a quick buck. Now we have Foxcon. They might have aligned with communist or at least sympathetic governments around the world for the project of I dunno stonewalling western oligarchs and not participating in the capitalist economic system. Insane, radical, anti-Party thought I know, I'm sorry. Just thinking out loud here.