I didn't want to direct this question to Americans specifically because, at this point, other countries have shown support to Israel in one or the other way. If my country was financing this, I would be taking the streets. Shit, I'm right now in the hospital but all I can think about is protesting anyway just to feel I did something to stop this madness.

Are you doing something about this? Are you feeling unsettled? How do you feel about all this mess?

EDIT: So, buying Chinese stuff takes the USS Gerald Ford to Gaza’s coast. Also, TIL that that chocolate my cousin gave me when she was 20 and I was 5, (delicious stuff!) made me a slavist-ish. The fact remains, this genocide is being paid and supported by taxpayers money; of course, I was hoping that most of us didn’t pay taxes wishing for this. Thank you all for your responses, some of them were hard to swallow.

  • GaveUp [she/her]
    hexbear
    22
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    It's really not that hard to boycott China, people just don't do it because they're selfish and would rather support an authoritarian regime than stand for what's right

    I haven't eaten any cooked hot food since the HK protests because every appliance is made or parts majority made in China

    I will eat sliced bread and beans the rest of my life to own the Chinese

    • barrbaric [he/him]
      hexbear
      12
      7 months ago

      Beans is one thing, but cold beans??? That's a step too far, I now uncritically support Xi.

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
      hexbear
      4
      7 months ago

      Psh. You posuer. I've converted my life savings to yuan notes and am now keeping them under the bed to reduce the circulation of cash in the Chinese economy. im-doing-my-part