“The People’s Republic of China is waging a brutal campaign of repression against the Uyghur people and other minorities with mass incarceration, torture and forced labor,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during a news conference Wednesday before the vote. “With these bills, the House is combating this horrific situation and shining a light on Beijing’s abuse.”
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Nevermind the US slave labor codified in our constitution, concentration camps for brown people, including babies and children, and (illegal) assassination of a foreign diplomat.
Thomas Massie (R - KY). God knows what reason he has for it, probably loves slavery more than he hates China.
Read a little bit about him and it seems he's a right-libertarian who has actually backed up his non-interventionist beliefs unlike almost every other libertarian. I wish more American politicians at least had that decency to keep their bullshit in America and leave everyone else alone.
They're rare, but there are right libertarians who are basically anti-imperialists. The only folks outside of the left in the US who are. Their reasons aren't the same - it's usually something about how we should only use tax dollars for defensive purposes when the actual 50 US states are attacked - but eh, I'll take it. Different path but gets to more or less the same destination.
I mean, defensive army is good