Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car
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I imagine
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Sure, fair point.
I'd feel like such a target, to be honest. At least if I was living in politically-volatile America right now.
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So much to unpack here but I'll do my best to address everything you're saying here.
1- Chinese cars can't compete in price: yes because China has been dumping subsidies into the market, inflating the supply. China dumped 231 billion dollars into EVs from 2009 to 2023. Over 500 electric car brands were created due to this injection. There is only are less than 100 left after China stopped the subsidies.
2- The Chinese EV are a superior product: which one of the 500 car companies are you referring to? outside ofthe top China brands (Geely, BYD), they all sorta suck.
China is doing is state sponsored "dumping". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) which artificially reduces prices to gain market share and has a negative effect on the industry. Every country in the world, not just the US, has an anti dumping policy, including China.
While we the consumer would love to spend pennies on the dollar for an electric cars, the effect is only temporary and when we start losing car companies due to this practice, prices always, ALWAYS, are higher after we lose competition.
Anti dumping policies is not hindering free market. The second you inject 231 billion dollars of government subsidies into an industry, is the second it no longer becomes a free market.
Yes, the USA has also has given subsidies. In total about 30 billion dollars. A drop in the bucket on the 231 billion the CCP has injected.
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Saluting like a nazi is sufficient as far as I'm concerned.
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You don't like being called a nazi apologist, don't make excuses for nazis.
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Tesla is a nazi-owned company.
That's why you're defending them.
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And people say lemmy doesn't have ads.
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I would personally add a small amount of slack for bad taste satire (we were all young idiots at some point), but basically agree. Any signs of the other points, and that slack is gone, however.
I was mostly curious if the OP was acting in bad faith, or a useful idiot that could be reasoned with.
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Nazism, formally named National Socialism, is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.
You Americans need to stop using strong words you have no idea about. You can call him far-right douchebag.
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"Our chineze vs their chinese."
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All cars are bad. Combustion or not.
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Thanks for the civilized discussion. Have a nice day to you too.
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Civility is what is demanded of the oppressed after the oppressors robbed, assaulted and threatened. No more.
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Nazism, formally named National Socialism, is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.
elon and all his simps are nazis.
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It is and if he loses that wealth I'm pretty sure he is getting kicked to the street. He has no other skills that aren't readily available by folks who aren't utterly unstable drug addled dipshits.
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Only usable for federal highways, shit could still be banned by the DMVs or equivalents which would basically be a death knell for it.
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That's only half the truth though. The main reason why they're so cheap is because they manufacture everything in the supply chain themselves. Everything. They have their own mines for their resources, they make their own batteries (which they've been doing for ages), they make their own electronics, they make their own software etc.
They also have a completely different mindset. For them they are rolling electrical devices with some software. They don't need the knowhow of the traditional car manufacturers.
And then they bought the Audi designer along with his entire team to make the cars look good. -
Someone downvoted you. Just wanted to say, that said person is a moron.
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Fuck. What if Elon is just gonna start making weapons? Didn't he flaunt a flamethrower for his lame company years ago?
Boring*
