Made In USA? Don't Believe It.

Main thing is to keep this garbage coming from China the hell out of this c ountry. Of course it takes the government forever to create regulations tha t actually work. The pharmaceutical industry is criminally irresponsible fo r creating its dependence on China. These people are predisposed to cheat i n every single thing they do, even when it's unimaginably unnecessary.

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Oh it's got the American flag on it, must be legit.

"It was pretty egregious stuff, especially considering how heavily the companies wrapped themselves in the American flag to sell their products. But unfortunately, the companies didn?t suffer any real consequences. No fines were issued. They didn?t even have to admit they were at fault."

Lol, no, can't do that, now. That wouldn't be business-friendly. Un-American, really. Probably communist.

Patriotism, last refuge of the scoundrel. Actually it's the first refuge of the scoundrel.

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is country. Of course it takes the government forever to create regulations that actually work. The pharmaceutical industry is criminally irresponsibl e for creating its dependence on China. These people are predisposed to che at in every single thing they do, even when it's unimaginably unnecessary.

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It may be patriotism for the lower elements of society but that's not the c ase for people who know better. China is ruthless in their use of slave lab or and total disregard for the environment. Buy their products and you fund the perpetuation of these atrocities.

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Fred Bloggs

I'm a pretty low-grade consumer in the scheme of American society. I like electronics and software and problems to solve I don't have much interest in conventional trappings-of-success.

Unfortunately America seemed to stop producing a lot of ICs and electronics components domestically around the time I was learning to tie my shoes.

America has more people in prison than China with a quarter the population and on average they're probably treated somewhat better. But it's only somewhat better definitely not ten times better. And there are some federal prisons in the US that are every bit as bad as China, you'll find them in places like South Carolina, and Jesup, Georgia.

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this country. Of course it takes the government forever to create regulatio ns that actually work. The pharmaceutical industry is criminally irresponsi ble for creating its dependence on China. These people are predisposed to c heat in every single thing they do, even when it's unimaginably unnecessary .

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he case for people who know better. China is ruthless in their use of slave labor and total disregard for the environment. Buy their products and you fund the perpetuation of these atrocities.

LOL- you can't be serious. Do you know why it appears like U.S. has more pe ople in prison than China? Because China executes a LOT of people, they nev er make it to prison. China kills tens of thousands of people annually. If the prisoners are treated better it's probably because they're being fatten ed up for a life ending organ donation.

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It may just be in the thousands a year, but they are very secretive about it...

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f this country. Of course it takes the government forever to create regulat ions that actually work. The pharmaceutical industry is criminally irrespon sible for creating its dependence on China. These people are predisposed to cheat in every single thing they do, even when it's unimaginably unnecessa ry.

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e people in prison than China? Because China executes a LOT of people, they never make it to prison. China kills tens of thousands of people annually. If the prisoners are treated better it's probably because they're being fa ttened up for a life ending organ donation.

Bezos owns that paper and is avoiding antagonizing them. The estimate is 10 ,000 political dissidents annually, and that's probably right.

As long as we're on the subject of Chinese prisoners, don't think for a min ute they're not conducting human challenge trials for COVID-19 with their new vaccine. I doubt they're following prospective WHO guidelines;

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Fred Bloggs

Amnesty International, huh. Be about the first time Americans generally believed Amnesty International's figures on anything. Countries the US government does weapons deals with get those reports filed away in the "Just a lot of leftist propaganda" section, China ain't one of them though.

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is country. Of course it takes the government forever to create regulations that actually work. The pharmaceutical industry is criminally irresponsibl e for creating its dependence on China. These people are predisposed to che at in every single thing they do, even when it's unimaginably unnecessary.

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bitrex, Do you really believe the stuff you write, or are you just trolling the conservatives?

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George Herold

Yeah in Communist China they at least make a death sentence official. In the US prisoners only die of "natural causes." Well what isn't "natural" if you think about it.

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bitrex

Americans are definitely free to stop buying products made in China at any time, I'm not going to personally insist they do. Probably be for the best. I'm all for fining companies that sell Chinese made goods under an American-made label. Fine 'em into the ground for all I care.

However I don't see it happening any time soon...

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this country. Of course it takes the government forever to create regulatio ns that actually work. The pharmaceutical industry is criminally irresponsi ble for creating its dependence on China. These people are predisposed to c heat in every single thing they do, even when it's unimaginably unnecessary .

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case for people who know better. China is ruthless in their use of slave l abor and total disregard for the environment.

US manufacturers love off-shoring production to places where people work fo r lower wages, and they aren't all that particular about the working condit ions there, or labour management practices. A lot of their stuff is manufac tured in China.

Trump's attitude to environmental protection isn't wonderful.

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Voting for Trump has the same effect. Running the US on the basis that fina ncial well-being of the top 1% of the income distribution is the only thing that matters isn't all that clever either. The 99% eventually gets restive .

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Trump MAGA hats and all the other Trump merchandising tat is made in China.

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this country. Of course it takes the government forever to create regulatio ns that actually work. The pharmaceutical industry is criminally irresponsi ble for creating its dependence on China. These people are predisposed to c heat in every single thing they do, even when it's unimaginably unnecessary .

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Could be both. Pointing out that our resident "conservatives" are a bunch of gullible twits who will believe anything that has been designed to press their buttons may look like trolling, but it is also a necessary public se rvice.

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Paper published 40 years ago titled "Patriotism: the first refuge of the scoundrel"

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bitrex

Page after page of this stuff mostly straight from Shenzen and Chongqing, 4-6 weeks delivery:

The flag icon only means it _ships_ from the US.

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bitrex

What the....what's going on at the bottom left, here??? OMG must be a communist conspiracy.

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bitrex

That's just an homage; Ambrose Bierce covered the same idea, it's in his classic _The_Devil's_Dictionary_ from over a century ago.

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The new stupidity is Americans thinking they can be rebels and patriots at the same time. "f*ck your feelings" t-shirts, biker-style and tons of tattoos, bunch of guys all looking like they stepped out of the Federal pen last Thursday and simultaneously "supporting police" and acting like they're the most upstanding citizens there ever were. You can even see cops wearing goofy tattoos nowadays, probably pissed their Mom off good.

Yeah, a bunch of police-loving patriot outlaws, that makes sense. No it doesn't it's dumb there's only logic to it to wanna-be Gestapo thugs, a good fraction of them former criminals and drug-pushers themselves.

But Americans are fickle and I predict this style will get old faster than the time the WWF brought the Undertaker back as the "American Bad Ass" and had him come in on a Harley instead of claw his way out of a tomb.

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Samuel Johnson seems to be the first author. There's been a lot of homage since 1775.

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