• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    As much as I hate Elon, this is a terrible idea. Cheap Chinese trash mobiles built by Uyghur slave labor are not the answer.

    How about we build cars in Canada instead?

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      9 days ago

      Except they aren’t trash, they’re better than Teslas that’s for sure.

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        8 days ago

        Except they aren’t trash, they’re better than Teslas that’s for sure.

        It’s possible to be trash and also better than Tesla…

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      Cheap Chinese trash mobiles built by Uyghur slave labor are not the answer.

      Source?

      How about we build cars in Canada instead?

      Another person who thinks the world is like a SIMS game… just press the button and the factory pops up, right?!

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      9 days ago

      But we were fine with the usa destroying multiple countries, participating in many coups and supporting Israel for decades.

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      While there are still a lot of low quality things produced en masse in China, this take is getting more and more out of date.

      South Korea and Japan used to make cheap crap too until their industrial output developed to the point the average quality was high.

      We have reached this point to a certain degree with China too. Their EVs sure as hell are better than Tesla’s.

      There’s a lot of high quality stuff coming out of China now, along with crap.

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      9 days ago

      At least keep the tracking and voice-recording (for Ai) in-country. I don’t see that in a provable fashion in the cheap asian cars.

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      9 days ago

      I would be sympathetic if the Uyghur stuff was true.

      Do you have any substantial sources, to objectively prove your claims? I’ve never seen anything convincing.

      I’m not intending to simp for China. They are authoritarian. But I’m also not going to fall for propaganda especially if it’s false. The USA has a motive for making the masses hate China.

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        Yes. It is absolutely shameful propaganda to the most humanist response to terrorism in history: Education and job creation. Very significant prosperity in region. The political designation of genocide is based on some unwed mothers with 4+ children going to UK to say they were now sterile, FFS. The anti-China hateful have no metrics to stop hating China. Only propaganda amplification.