• nullspace@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I hope they don’t act surprised when cheap Chinese cars without all that crap devour their market share.

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      4 hours ago

      That only delays the problem, doesn’t fix it, sadly. Chinese firms understand capitalism better than the west imo, so once they have a large market share, they will likely pull off the same shit. Still, for now, they are probably the better option.

      For me, personally, I am trying to keep my 300 thousand km car alive :)

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      4 hours ago

      Unfortunately that doesn’t happen, because EU put tariffs on Chinese EVs. And then they are complaing why EV adaption doesn’t happen as quickly as they would like, lol.

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      Cheap chinese car, yes, without all the crap, you wish. They are all capitalist and learn from each other. Remember the door handle shit? It’s very much everywhere in chinese car to the point their government have to regulate the shit out of it. Chinese car maker want to export their car so bad because they can exploit without limit.

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          56 minutes ago

          In what way criticising car manufacturer sinophobe? Is it because it’s a chinese company that you must unconditionally defend it? They’re billionaire ffs, no need you to defend them.

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        to the point their government have to regulate the shit out of it

        Sounds like the system works. A problem was caused by capitalist firms doing stupid capitalist bullshit, and so the government stepped in to regulate them. What a country! Imagine if our governments would step in to regulate stupid firms doing stupid shit.

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          Corpos figured out that onerous regulations can keep out competitors who haven’t achieved the economies of scale to pay for compliance.

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          What a country!

          Yeah if we pretend all the other issue with CCP didn’t exists, it’s a functional government.

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            lol try talking with an actual chinese person in 2026 irl, ask them how they feel about their own country. Its not 1952 with mao at the helm. Very illuminating actually talking to someone with direct experience instead of the daily mail and their weird takes based mostly on hearsay and misconstruction

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              Why would i wanna ask them who the south china sea and taiwan belongs to lmao

              I don’t pretend that China is a hell hole, but you just pretend that CCP doesn’t have issue, that’s the difference here. And obviously it also depend who you ask. If i talk to charlie kirk obviously he would say trump is the greatest. Ohh wait he’s dead.

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                are you speedrunning some sort of ‘biggest amount of baseless assumptions about another person in one sentence’-title?

                1. I know china’s got many problems worth criticizing, im pretty sure this is actually my first comment even mentioning china at all on this site, so i dont know what makes you think otherwise… All im pushing back on, is you claiming that ‘its not a functional government’.
                2. i didn’t accuse you of saying its a hellhole. The 1952 comment was rhetorically purely for dramatic effect and not a comment about you. Not everything is.
                3. tf has charlie kirk got to do with this? xD
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              And the US doesn’t censor at all, and doesn’t run propaganda via media, interfere with scientific and educational institutions. Or start wars and genocides across the middle east. Or kidnap and assassinate presidents of countries. Or oppress and imprison the most number of people of any country in the world. Only China has human rights violations, not our country.