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The U.S. government should block the import of low-cost Chinese autos and parts from Mexico, a U.S. manufacturing advocacy group said on Friday, warning they could threaten the viability of American car companies.

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You sound like a 1950s red scare boomer right now, or a medieval serf accusing another medieval serf of being a spy for the rival kingdom while we're both covered in shit in a potato field. It's just so sad.

Like a reverse Truman show, where you live in real life but have convinced yourself that vast swathes of people are paid actors.

As the decline of capitalist countries continues and their socialist counterparts continue to outpace them, this comforting nationalist delusion will take more and more of your energy to maintain, and will probably have deleterious effects on your mental health and sense of reality. For your own sake, and the sake of the people you believe it's okay to disrespect in service of the fiction of nationhood, you should let go of it sooner rather than later.

Also it's CPC.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social -5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Sure thing, buddy. You're the only one bringing up communism and trying to act like this is some east versus west dick measuring contest. You can't even make a coherent argument about why you think this is a good thing and instead go straight for whataboutism and ad hominem attacks.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Lol wut dude

You're the only one who brought up communism, like right now and in your right off the bat east-west scaremongering

Is someone being haunted by a spectre?specterowl-wink

[–] rogrodre@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Byd cars are better and cheaper and I'd like to buy one like many people in Europe have chosen to do but the nationalist freaks that run this country and the rubes that eat up their propaganda are preventing me from doing that. Honda dominated in the 70s and 80s because they made something people wanted, liberals are terrified that China will do the same thing.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How can you claim they're better and cheaper if you have zero access to them because of whatever "nationalist freak" that's running your country? What specifically makes them better and how to they make them better than every other manufacturer while still being able to sell them cheaper?

Japanese cars still dominate because people still want them more than any other car. 8 of the 10 best selling cars in the world are from Japanese manufacturers.

[–] rogrodre@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

I'm sure explaining how the internet works and the manufacturing and financials of a Chinese car company will get you to take off your blinders and won't be a total waste of time, weird though how the 2022 bolt new was 15000 dollars cheaper than the 2020 model new, I guess it just got real cheap to build a bigger car with a bigger battery and a better infotainment system.