Stormed off after scolding the cashier for “supporting Uighur genocide” after they wouldn’t help him find one made in Taiwan

Are the liberals ok? Are they flooding the streets after reddit took their apps away? This behavior used to be confined to terminally online losers

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      Yea it's super jarring the first time. Mine was at brunch with 4 others and they made fun of me because I had a Xiaomi phone and one said "You must like SpyOS eh?" 💀

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        You can choose a phone that spies on you for an agency on another continent, an ocean away; or a phone that spies for an agency with direct jurisdiction where you live. :edgeworth-shrug:

        i mean, that'd be a snappy reply, but really the spying comes down to the cell towers you're pinging, not the make or model of phone.

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Ask them if they’ve tried suing the state department for unpaid labor

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        My reply to this was "I'm a true centrist, I give both sides a crack at my personal info."

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        I'm very thankful I don't live in a NATO country where this shit seems to be extremely prevalent. Most of our phones are bootlegs to begin with lol

        • GaveUp [she/her]
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          It's not NATO/West, just USA and a tiny bit Canada

          Americans straight up talk shit, Canadians I can tell kinda look disappointed/down on me, and Europeans will be like "hell yea I loved my OnePlus/Huawei phone, it was amazing"

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          • VILenin [he/him]
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            Yeah, American prisons are famous for their luxury accommodations and gourmet meals. Just yesterday I murdered eleventy billion precious white children just so I could stay at the five star prison for a while.

            Unfortunately the court only sentenced me to 10 minutes in prison because the judges and DAs love criminals like me and refuse to enforce the law, which is why America has the lowest incarceration rate in the world.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Try the "who's going to pay for it smuglord ?" Argument. Really throws them for a loop.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I would doubt my own reality and retreat in to the belief that i'm part of some bad podcasts comedy bit.

    • boiledfrog [he/him, undecided]
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      1 year ago

      It feels so fucking weird when your average boomer uncle starts repeating the most online bullshit ever, it's pretty scary tbh.

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    lol i hope this is real. If they mention Uighurs they are definitely lib, a conservative would just be raging about China in general cause they took our jerbs

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Oh it does and it did

      My favorite bit of feedback was the survey where they said I was "Too polite. Seemed fake."

      You can't win pain

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        • Rojo27 [he/him]
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          Mystery shoppers get sent to the gulag after the revolution. Seriously, they're some of the biggest assholes.

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            • VILenin [he/him]
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              Your three steps to success in any field relating to consulting or surveying:

              1. Find out what the client wants to hear

              2. Find out how much they will pay to hear it

              3. Double the price

        • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          You shouldn't have filed that sales form in triplicate and had them wait for a notary to witness the sale

          It was just some potato salad

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    Screaming at a cashier because of decisions made 40 years ago at the executive level is the most liberal shit

    • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]M
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      1 year ago

      I remember a poster here like just last week saying "do people REALLY act like r/politics users do out in the real world?"

  • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    A kinda related story: i was visiting a place in Fujian Close to Taiwan and visited a factory making pots, pans and woks and according to the tour guide there they got their start from turning scrap metal from artillery shells fired over by the KMT into pots and pans

  • aebletrae [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Bonus points if the wok came from the "Republic of China".

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    My favorite moment behind the register came when CVS stopped selling cigarettes

    This happened because they weren't making enough money to justify selling them, but they spun it as if it was for our benefit because they cared so much about our health (keep in mind that CVS singles out "Patients of Greatest Need" i.e. sufferers of chronic illnesses and overcharged them, because they knew they could never stop taking their medications)

    I had so many libs congratulating me and Chuds scolding me over a two week period, I almost fuckin' quit right there

    • envis10n [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      They replaced the Walgreens vape section with liquor here. Because THAT is healthy compared to those JUUL pods

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    1 year ago

    I used to live near a food co-op that published a newsletter with a consistently hilarious Suggestions section. Once someone wrote in furious that the bell peppers came from China, and they ended their letter with "Nothing good has ever come from China!" The Co-op replied that bell peppers were in season in China, but not here, and that they strongly disagreed with the assertion. But I do wonder if they'd push back as hard now that the atmosphere has only been growing more hostile in the last ten years or so.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      The idea of a printed newsletter asserting that nothing good has ever come from China despite the fact that both paper and block printing were invented in China is a good bit.

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    in 2000 America imported 6.38% of its total imports from China, in 2020 America imported 19.5% of its total imports from China, over a threefold increase. Setting aside the zenz question, if the US government actually cared about the treatment of Muslims in China (they don't, they just got done bombing Muslim countries for 20 years), they would have to decouple the American economy from the Chinese economy as quickly as possible with a general boycott of Chinese goods. But we all know that's not gonna happen, lol. People like that baffle me not just because of their unhinged reactionary politics, but because of their ludicrous idealism: They they think they can turn the ocean yellow by pissing in it.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I hate the government, not the people. That's why I refuse to buy cookware made by the people.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Ugh... reminds me of working in electronic retail. The amount of people whining about stuff being made in China was just tiring.

  • kfc [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    The year is 2032. A dimming sun rises over America as Biden is elected for his 4th term, celebrating with a psychic speech from his golden throne. "Student loan interest rates will now be tripled." Young 50-60 year old libs cheer in celebration as they storm retirement homes and smash chinaware and burn anything even tangentially silk related. Undersea mechanopensionists in Florida plan their fascist takeover of DC at their local Denny's. It is a new day, same as the last.

  • duderium [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    You hate China, yet everything you possess was made in China. Checkmate, liberal.