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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 109 points 3 days ago (47 children)

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?

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 65 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 3 days ago (17 children)

They are still data hungry, surveillance machines that are allways online and gps tracked. We need cars without that kinda shit built in.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

exactly like their US counterparts though

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago

There has been talks about forcing Chinese cars to come over disconnected. Every new car is a surveillance machine. The western brands will not be asked to disconnect anything and it will probably be illegal to do so yourself, so Chinese cars might be an actual win in that regard.

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

While there are still a lot of low quality things produced en masse in China, this take is getting more and more out of date.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

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Build cars in Germany, Japan, South Korea and the like. focus on something non car you can sell to them in return. You can do anything but not everything.

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[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 42 points 2 days ago (17 children)

China isn't our friend. The whole 'make it more financially appealing for the world to not war' is not working. China isn't influencing the world to be decent and at peace. They're Putin's allies and therefore our enemies.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 76 points 3 days ago (8 children)

i would find amusing if countries retaliate US tariffs by singling out Musk and Trump companies

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Replacing nazi cars with slave labor cars is a pretty fucked up idea.

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Pretty much anything that you've ever owned has been made from the exploitation of some working class somewhere. The clothes you wear. The house you live in. The electronics that you use. The furniture that you own. The very food you eat and drink is often cheap because of an exploited worker somewhere that's paid pennies on the dollar. Your going to draw the line at a drastically cheaper car that's leaps and bounds better for the environment than a petrol vehicle? Okay.

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[–] Onemadmother@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Why not do both? I like public transit idea but does not work for smaller/rural communities

[–] Bzdalderon@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

If they care about the environment at all they will. If they care about their people at all, they already would have.

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