• @surph_ninja
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    1710 hours ago

    I would like a Chinese EV, but the capitalists are enforcing protectionism.

    • dream_weasel
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      4 hours ago

      You can fellate Winnie the Pooh on your own time. It comes with its own whole set of problems.

      Edit: Come at me tankies. You’re morons for giving a single dollar to the CCP.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 hour ago

        Nothing quite says “American Capitalist bootlicker” more than proudly paying more for an inferior product while complaining that it’s the Communists fault.

    • @[email protected]
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      59 hours ago

      I would too, but you have to understand why the USA is blocking these cars from coming in. The cost of these cheap EVs are not based off of supply and demand. Its not even this cheap because of effectiveness or efficiencies. Its from the CCP subsidies. The CCP wants to dump on the competition in efforts to kill off anyone making a car, then start jacking up the price after they have market share.

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        My dude the US subsidizes the shit out of its electric car industry. When someone brings up “supply and demand” and just tries to pretend that the economy is exactly what they learned in their econ101 class.

        They are doing the tarrifs on Chinese EVS because (1) they can’t compete on price and (2) the Chinese EVS are just a superior product.

        You’re right on China though. They are just doing exactly what the US has done for decades. It’s just that the US doesn’t like having to actually compete with another country. So instead of actually making better and cheaper cars they instead just decide to tell the American people “nah, looks like you’re just being a shit Tesla”

        The US loves to say “free market” but notice how they don’t allow a free market to force their industry to actually innovate and compete.

        China is not “cheating” by subsidizing it’s industry. That’s literally just standard shit every government does. Thats just an excuse. America is subsidizing it’s EVs too. They just have worse EVs.

        • @800XL
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          152 minutes ago

          Trump is all about removing regulations and stated “for every new regulation, 10 must be revoked.” During his first term it was 2. He is moving the market that way, and boy oh boy is it going to suck for the consumer and small companies that want to compete.

      • @madcaesar
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        68 hours ago

        I’m also pretty sure their security / safety standards are pure ass. I barely trust our automakers, I sure as shit don’t trust the fucking CCP

        • @[email protected]
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          37 hours ago

          I live in Taiwan and we call those China made cars tofu cars. Their domestic cars are terrible. So many of them are going out of business because the the CCP lowered down the subsidies.

          I won’t be caught dead in one.

        • @Chivera
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          39 hours ago

          We don’t want that evil capitalism here in the US. No sir.

        • @stormeuh
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          18 hours ago

          State capitalism, but yes.