@metaphase@toot.community @JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social of course, the thing about China is that those are about the only political repercussions that we hear about internationally, and even those are heavily censored by the state. In the US there are no direct political repercussions because everything belongs to private companies, or there are private companies involved. Also: human life is not a tenet in the US, only a “nice to have”