US Authoritarianism

"Are you?"

yeah, I know a couple people who actually lost their entire social network and their family recently because of trump, and tons of people before that from drugs.

not having any friends f or any support like you're going through is like the number one cause of relapse and drug abuse and basically every depressive-adjacent syndrome.

so I don't like to hear that, even if it happens to people who are trying to be rude or belligerent.

not having friends or support is probably playing into your belligerence.

"I don't feel bad about being complicit in slave labor..."

wow, that is dark.

you might want to feel a little bad about it.

"If you go far enough down the chain in anything, you're likely to find human rights abuse."

couple things here.

1. what you're talking about is not down the chain, it's the slave mailing the phone to Apple Store, who is providing you with the electronics.

it's like two links in a chain.

Fairfield is a great alternative that supports workers rights and provides documentation their supply chain.

2. your conclusion is that the more likely human rights abuse is are, the less bad you should feel about them.

That's not uncommon to hear, but it is not correct.

human rights abuses should not be happening whether they're close to you or far away, or there's one child being whipped or 200 children being whipped.

you've defended child slavery and human rights abuses like twice into two paragraphs, and even if you aren't being serious, you might want to re-examine your ideals that have led you down this path to defend child slavery and human rights abuses because.....why?

nobody's arguing that human rights abuses are good, you're just bragging that you don't feel bad about child slavery and human rights abuses.

That's weird.

That's a weird defensive posture, especially when nobody is taking the opposite stance.