Wursi@lemmy.world to Videos@lemmy.world · edit-23 days agoIn 2011, Elon Musk was asked about chinese company BYD. He started laughing. In 2025, BYD sold more electric cars worldwide than Teslacdn.imgchest.comvideomessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1466file-text
arrow-up1466videoIn 2011, Elon Musk was asked about chinese company BYD. He started laughing. In 2025, BYD sold more electric cars worldwide than Teslacdn.imgchest.comWursi@lemmy.world to Videos@lemmy.world · edit-23 days agomessage-square79fedilinkfile-text
You can’t make this up. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9rjwpvmpzo https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/chinas-byd-to-overtake-tesla-as-worlds-top-ev-seller-for-first-time.html
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·5 days agoI would trust China before Elon fucking Musk.
minus-squareTankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·4 days agoJust because US is going on temper tantrum it doesn’t mean people have to forget that China is doing its own Orwellian surveillance.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 days agoIt’s pretty bad everywhere but people don’t realize the level of surveillance in China is on a whole other fucking level.
minus-squareFlyingCircus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoAn acceptable price for living under a government that actually controls its capitalist billionaires rather than being controlled by them. And it’s not like China’s surveillance is any more Orwellian than the West’s. They just do it more openly.
I would trust China before Elon fucking Musk.
Just because US is going on temper tantrum it doesn’t mean people have to forget that China is doing its own Orwellian surveillance.
It’s pretty bad everywhere but people don’t realize the level of surveillance in China is on a whole other fucking level.
An acceptable price for living under a government that actually controls its capitalist billionaires rather than being controlled by them.
And it’s not like China’s surveillance is any more Orwellian than the West’s. They just do it more openly.