That's rich coming from the economic union that spends 40% of its budget on agricultural subsidies, which they then use to flood global south countries that sign FTAs with the EU with cheap food, ruining the livelihood of peasants and smallholder farmers.
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When we do it, it’s simply western ingenuity and entrepreneurship. When they do it, it’s sinister.
That's not why they do it the livelihoods of peasants in the global south are collateral damage. The intent is cheap food in Europe.
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Just make your own cars cheaper you neolib freak
BUT HOW WILL WE MILK EVERY PENNY OUT OF THE WORKING CLASS
Weird, I thought subsidised industry couldn't compete with the efficiency and innovation of the free market.
Look what they need to do to mimic a mere fraction of our power 
something about productive forces
If they think the price of electric cars is being kept artifically low, have i got some news for them about all their fruit
never mind the U.S. agricultural subsidies. all for free trade until some mild inconvenience happens.
So China is offering cheaper EVs - which aren’t even going to help climate change on its own, but touted by liberals as the #1 solution - and they’re not even accusing them of being low quality due to its price, but simply taking up more market share and devaluing overpriced western shit?
Loved you in LaLa Land.
Wait a minute, why do you look so familiar... =.=
You might’ve recognized me in the extremely viral and financially successful feature film, Lars and the Real Girl
Gosling, I should have known that you would have been a silly, silly Hexbear.
Just for that comment, I will make you do 2 more dance numbers in the inevitable sequel.
Nooooooo not cheap electric cars anything but that :(
The world isn't yours anymore, NATO. Fuck off, seethe and cope.
We're moving forward.
Communism will win and the world's people will be liberated from enslavement by neocolonial capital. Capitulate or fucking rot.
There's some older work, specifically Maguire, T., Molina, A., et al (2004) building off of Lee, S. and Ditko, S. (1963) that looks at the disastrous societal consequences the unintended side effects that these 'green energy drives' can produce.
The solution to cars isn't greener cars. It's replacing cars with something else completely, like human powered vehicles or multi-passenger transport. /c/fuck_cars has the right idea
human powered vehicles
This phrasing made by brain fly over bikes and land on Flintstones cars.
It's because the car propaganda is so strong.
In Communist North Korea the passengers get out and push the trains
Correct but that is not why the EU is doing this.
human powered vehicles
I am pessimistically imagining Musk and Bezos carried in giant glitzy palanquins
No no no, you gotta be optimistic about imagining Musk and Bezos being publically [redacted] by their palanquin bearers
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I agree, but we can’t replace cars entirely anyway, which is why prioritizing public transportation while also improving personal vehicles is what China does. It’s just that they’re making their cars affordable as well as their trains and buses, while Europeans get angry that their shit is so expensive
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[stares at names for several minutes looking for the ligma-style joke]
Alfred Molina is real, he also went by Dr. Octopus after successfully defending his thesis on electronic mind-altering evil robot tentacle arms.
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I love the import tariffs on Chinese solar modules under Biden, Trump, and Obama
unfortunate similarity to
This woman is 100% a nazi.
she's not a nazi under her leadership the german army started having to train using brooms instead of guns and shout bang bang. Nazis are not known for not prioritising militarisation
Within 7 years she managed to increase the military budget by 1/3.
their price is kept artificially low by huge state subsidies
we are launching an anti-subsidy investigation
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT THE ANSWER IS THERE JUST DO STATE SUBSIDIES DO WHAT BISMACK DID IN THE 20TH CENTURY INSTEAD OF DOING WHAT THAT ENGLISH LIBERAL AGENT OF A MONARCH WANTED
Bismarck's a communist, doncha know. He knew Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels through his niece.
I saw that the cheapest Chinese electric car is $5000. I feel like the Chinese approach of hanging the capitalists with the rope they sell them is working. How can western companies compete with any of this, aside from hobbling themselves with economic nationalism? Barring nuclear war or catastrophic climate collapse, China and the global south will keep developing while the west falls further behind.
well they could do subsidies but won't because they are too stupid
They do massive subsidies, Tesla only ever made any money because of carbon credits! They're just trying to squeeze cash out of the consumers too. And it fucking works without an outside competitor
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The US has absolutely massive subsidies.
Easy, they do tariffs and protectionism. This is how most of the emerging economy in the world during cold war managed to become successful regardless of their ideology (i.e Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, etc.)
If the west is really a free market, most non Chinese companies would be wiped out
China is doing predatory pricing on one of the most expensive purchases that people will do in their lifetime? Neat.
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