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monster2control ◴[] No.21195290[source]
Wow, when a government can ruin someone's professional career of choice simply because he or she has an opinion that goes against the People’s Republic, that’s when companies should decide to no longer do business in China.

Sadly, however, the dollar is more powerful than the the moral high ground.

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chimi ◴[] No.21195940[source]
This wasn't the government's decision though, was it? It was Blizzard's decision.

Just makes me wonder where all of this is going. Americans left and right are choosing China's cultural decisions over America's cultural ... legacy for the lack of a better word.

Over money.

It's like the Americans who love America, because America made them rich, are now loving China because China is richer. I don't know which is more American, actually.

It might be more "American" to love money more than America. Americans have shown it is more important to love money more than where you were born.

It's all so ... poetically disturbing.

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1. xwdv ◴[] No.21197508[source]
America has always been all about the money, especially when you have half the country voting for a politicians based primarily on how much free shit they’re planning to give away. Disgusting.
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2. mikelyons ◴[] No.21197608[source]
This type of overly-simplistic thinking is devilry. Done for the sake or rhetoric rather than actual original thought of the individual. It's done by people who are run by selfishness and the illusion of being separate from others.