i'm not walking around pretending to care about human rights. you are.
belgians exports to saudi arabia topped 2.2 billion in 2022
https://tradingeconomics.com/belgium/exports/saudi-arabia
why didn't you organize protests and petitions to have these business stop exporting to saudi state? why didn't plead to the government about human rights violations of saudi state and have belgian businesses fined and jailed for doing business with terrorist evil child killers.
do you enjoy your roads when you drive on them? do you enjoy your health care? congrats saudi money funded it.
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so hold on as long as you personnally benefit from the product sold, you can excuse the human abuse? thats ok ,you don't need to say yes or no, it's good to admit you just need to be sold a product that personally benefits you at expense of others. thats normal human behvaour
United States Exports to Saudi Arabia was US$11.56 Billion during 2022, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports/saudi-arabia
every year united states sells BILLIONS in weapons to saudi arabia.
the thing here is you can't do anything about it. even if you could stop it, your wouldn't. you see just like you don't care about the rights of workers in china, saudi doesn't care what some american thinks and will buy whatever it wants. and your governmnt and business agree with it.
you claim deception is the problem, but you are worried about lgbt+++- dcoa or some workers rights in some foreing country. while being deceived by corps in your own back yard:
you live in san francisco right? you see how the opiods crisis destroyed millions of lives. what happened to the sackler family. do you care about those destroyed lives? nah you carry on living. not your problem right?
do you care about all those derailed trains all over usa? nah, you just keep on living. not your problem right?
do you care about hedge funds manipulating stock market using naked shorting and dark pools causing BILLIONS in retail trading stock manipulation while facing insignificant fines? nah you keep on living. not your problem right?
it's easy to pretend you care about human rights, but the truth is you don't. you never did and you never will. you just like to type a message on internet saying so because it makes you feel you are not a bad person. the thing is you are not a bad person. you are not a good person either. you are just a human being. if you care about rights? cool, focus on the rights you can impact on your own yard. don't worry what your neighbour down the street is doing when your house is on fire.
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it's very important to note i don't care about saudi or russia or china.
but let's stop this we are good they are bad mentality where it's justified if we do it and benefits us as long we admit it's bad (but still reap the benifts of course) but if they do it it's bad and we are better