Exit polls run by US actors and by the opposition

Ah yes, my favourite. It’s been a while since we had a good old colour revolution. The CIA’s getting their mojo back.

and you’re complaining about the batteries lmfao

And the Cybertruck was…

It’s an EV problem, not a China problem… Unfortunately

lmao you don’t even want to know about Tesla battery fires I take it?

Do you think this is a Ford Pinto?

Edit: given that you mention crumple zones… A Tesla Cybertruck?

hey shut up we’re in a china bad brigade

In this case BYD lacks a local factory and their profit margins are significant enough that they don’t maintain region-specific frame SKUs IIRC.

FWIW the Chinese market is one of the biggest for Volvo because Chinese consumers care about (perceived) safety.

Lmao there’s a guy who usually posts a long response to these “subsidies” claims bullshit, but I think they got into a pissing match with a mod in the comments and got banned lmao.

Jist of it is: China’s subsidies are negligible compared to the US, and what they’ve actually done is created a competitive domestic market with a large number of players. Unless you think Chinese people are all puppets, even if China (as a country) owns the industry it would not prevent internal competition that drives down prices. Moreover, China does not offer per-unit subsidies on export. In fact, Chinese EVs exported to Europe are something like 40% more expensive than domestically for the same model.

Ireland once again showing they’re one of the only humane countries in the EU

Again, you’re attempting to conflate different aspects of Hitler’s ideology. Hitler had different opinions of different Untermensch… Because to him, although they were all subhuman, some were less human than others. The fact that your grandmother was not Jewish does not change the fact that Hitler’s solution to the Slavic problem was resolved before his solution to the Jewish problem.

You’re being disingenuous in your claim. The argument is that Zionists and Hitler cooperated in establishing a Jewish state (which is true: Hitler started out wanting to “just” ethnically cleanse Jews, not exterminate them). Conflating Zionists with Jews is wrong, but that’s where the claim that “Jews were responsible for the Holocaust” comes from. Similarly, the claim that “Slavs were the true victims of the Holocaust” comes from numbers: more Slavs were murdered in the Holocaust than Jews. It’s pretty silly to play “who’s the greater victim” in a genocide, but…

Your grandmother is an incredible person. Don’t let her forget that.

As a population, Romani were hit harder. In terms of numbers, the Slavs (and communists in particular) were hit harder. Hitler considered both groups (Slavs and Romani) to be Untermensch. We haven’t forgotten them; it was caused by a policy of propaganda that also caused this change of opinion in France:

Romani today are still considered an underclass. There is still a blatant disregard for Slavic lives in the West. The change in public opinion for the Jewish people was never about being a victim of Axis imperialism in the Second World War.

It’s always the same map. It’s a reflection of the spread of British (pre-WW2) and later American (post-WW2) ideas around the world, which explains the relative geographic outliers of Japan and South Korea as well as Australia.

Doesn’t really need much lobbying wrt Xinjiang given that no Muslim country opposes China’s actions.

Map of countries opposing China’s actions (in blue)

Oddly enough, the map is rather similar to this one showing which countries do not recognize Palestine (in grey)

I’d imagine the lobbying is towards key European powers who have shown recent support for Palestine to be more consistent on the issue, which would also explain why the diplomats went to Reuters to report it.

warmongering pt. 7

Using literally the NATO website to "debunk Russian misinformation about NATO*.

This is “he said, she said” but geopolitics.

You do realize that that’s exactly what’s happening to Cuba, and the world economy is still functioning?

Oh, wait, are we still pretending that Kennedy didn’t place a blockade on Cuba?

Here’s a fun fact: 85% of China’s government spending is by local governments (provincial and below). China’s federal support for EVs has been mostly limited to reducing taxes and fees on EV manufacturing (most notably, removing the consumption tax that is charged on automobiles).

If removing tax barriers is a government subsidy, I guess the EU claim has some water. Otherwise, the EU will be stuck whack-a-moling particular provinces for their economic incentives (and, of course, ignoring the billions that Tesla has received).