• Schwim Dandy@piefed.zip
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    3 days ago

    Legislating against a hostile market takeover like this isn’t a bad thing.

    I understand your point but your analogy would only work if Amazon were trying to convince the country that diapers were a sham, destroying the earth and inferior to swaddling your baby in poison ivy leaves.

    I hope China continues to subsidize the fuck out of the cars and I hope the world starts buying them, Tesla goes under and my government is left trying to explain to their constituents how, exactly, petroleum fuel is still the only logical answer and then explains why we can’t have a Chinese-made EV like the rest of the world.

    in an attempt to take over global clean energy tech.

    Don’t look now, but that ship has sailed. They are the global leaders in that tech. We could have competed if the dolts that put our current administration didn’t lack the critical thought to realize they were being lied to about solar, wind and electric. Now, the only card the US can play is to try to block the smarter countries from competing.

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      I hope China continues to subsidize the fuck out of the cars and I hope the world starts buying them

      You kinda have to hope they do. What happens when all the other manufactures are gone and Chinese companies start charging what the cars actually cost, or more? That’s what amazon did. Now everybody with a baby is forked.

      Don’t look now, but that ship has sailed. They are the global leaders in that tech.

      I said exactly as much. Their takeover of solar and batteries are more or less done. Vehicles are next. I’m sure they have other markets planed after that.

      inferior to swaddling your baby in poison ivy leaves.

      Fun fact: I’m not allergic to poison ivy. It was a pretty cool super power growing up.

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        Fun fact: I’m not allergic to poison ivy. It was a pretty cool super power growing up.

        I think I got your allergy to it on top of mine. I’m so allergic, I got something called compartmentalization of the arm and almost lost it due to the reaction to poison ivy and not going to the doctor quickly enough as my arm swelled.