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What’s crazy is that China seems to be a super hot button no nuance issue where hardly anyone seems in the middle. It’s tiring always hearing that China is the absolute worst or that they are the promised land. When really they aren’t either.

The latter!! Whoops! You are correct! Definitely the latter.

Wants? Or has already handed over anti-ICE info to homeland security and isn’t telling their users? I’m thinking it’s the LATTER.

Edit: I said former for some reason when I meant latter.

Pretty wild. Let’s hope it lasts. I really hope more people travel to mainland to see what it is actually like, both the good and bad. As someone who lived there for several years, I get so tired of both the extreme fear and the hyperbolic glazing. No, you won’t get kidnapped; yes, people will stare at you if you aren’t Chinese, but most will be very friendly; no, everything isn’t technologically advanced and BYD isn’t the best shit ever; yes, dumplings are amazing, and the pizza is the worst; and yes, that is pollution not fog.

You usually do this to be “discreet.” I don’t make the rules. People have been doing this forever.

It feels like the cat’s out of the bag and they will just go ahead with whatever they planned on doing with this partnership, but not be as open about it. Bury it somewhere in the user agreement.

Exactly. The back of the toilet—sure. Very common. It’s basically a little table. Also great for smashing adderall on for snorting.

Who the fuck would snort something off a toilet seat? Why would you want to bend down that far? It makes no sense. These guys are full of shit no matter what they are talking about.

Yep. And he died at 60. Younger Kim is on the same track.

I don’t know. Heart attacks are a real thing. Your 40s get weird with health stuff. I agree that I don’t think he is going to croak any day now, but it does seem like they are preparing for him to be gone. His father only lived to 60.

He’s almost 40 years younger than Trump, so I don’t think it’s comparable. I’m the same age as Kim and I know no one who is in as bad as shape as him (maybe one or two co-workers who are morbidly obese). There is nothing healthy about being 5’3” and 275 lbs.

Nailed it. I rode in one almost daily for the years I lived there, especially in Shenzhen. They felt cheap. Like most things over there (buildings, etc) they looked great from 100 ft back, but up close you could see all the flaws and cheap construction. The “made in China” stamp isn’t usually one associated with quality and BYD isn’t any different. That being said—I’d love for them to come to the US and steal Tesla’s market share. I absolutely loathe Tesla. As for the YouTubers, they are all paid shills. The amount of cheap bullshit YouTubers try to sell on a regular basis is staggering. That’s how they make their money. If you believed YouTubers every dumb product on earth would be “the best ever” or “epic” or “game changing” or whatever hyperbolic superlative.

He looks like shit for being in his early 40s. I wonder if there is something going on with his health and that’s why he is appointing a 13 year old heir. The article doesn’t elaborate on that but it says he “appears young and healthy.” He looks like he is about to pop. I don’t think I’d describe him as young or healthy looking.

Exactly. He is saying what the DNC doesn’t want him to say. Real progressive politics are winning and can win. It doesn’t have to be establishment-center-right Hillary Clinton pro-capital politics that the DNC pretends will “flip” Trump voters, while they continue to alienate progressive voters. The DNC can’t wait to blame progressives for dem losses just like they always do. The corporate overlords and neoliberal (economically) billionaires want the status quo, where the dollar rules all aspects of life, to stay the status quo. The reality is that progressive politics can win, but they don’t want that.

100% agree. There also need to be massive police reforms (college degree minimum), term and age limits for politicians (no one over 65), and ranked voting would be nice.

You can pretty much chart it going into warp speed when Falwell and the Moral Majority went into politics in 1979. The beginning of the end, and the start of this dark mainstream Christian nationalism. It was starting before then, but that is when they stomped on the gas.

I lived in mainland China for a while (Shanghai and then Shenzhen), and honestly I wasn’t impressed with BYD. Felt like a discount Tesla. The name is stupid as hell too: “build your dreams.” It will definitely be popular with people looking for a cheap EV, which is a good thing, but I don’t think it’ll make that much of a dent in the mid-range and luxury markets. But arguably that probably shouldn’t be their target market. I’d love to see what happens if the US actually let them be sold.

I think the parent would owe someone money if they gave them JD Vance

Why didn’t they save this for the political prisoners they need to torture?

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Same with every corporation it feels like too