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“Whether you hate me, like me or are indifferent, do you want the best car, or do you not want the best car?” [Apartheid Manchild] told audiences at an event in November.
Well, for starters I don’t want a car at all. I’d rather use public transit. You know, an actually effective means of reducing emissions.
If I were in the market, yes, I would want the best car. Which is why I’d never buy a Tesla. I’d buy an XPeng or a BYD or the like.
As I indicated by using first person singular in my comment, I was talking about me. What car you (second, singular) get is up to you.
While I did write “If a car has the option of spying on you[…]”, I hope my usage of “you” as an informal pronoun was clear. I do realize that I could have used the word “one” instead, or rewritten the sentence entirely. I wrote like I speak, and I unfortunately do not speak like an English professor.
Please remind me, where did you tell me that you live in China?
In the same place you assumed I lived outside of it, I presume.
You’re the one who got mad that I didn’t know that you live in China. You hadn’t told me, or given me any clues. I mean there’s 1.450 billion people who speak English either natively or as second language. 10 million of those live in China. That means there’s a 99.3% chance that a random English speaker doesn’t live in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population
But do go on, keep staying pissed at me for something you misunderstood. I never said that you (as in you, not one) or anyone else for that matter, should not buy a Chinese EV. I said that I wouldn’t, and gave my reasons why. In the meantime, while you stay pissed, I’ll continue to not own a Chinese EV, maybe while telling my students about what happened in early summer 1989 on Tiananmen Square, and how Winnie the Poo is treating the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.