As an American I am very proud of you!
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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I thought capitalists justified themselves by bragging about taking on all the risk. Sometimes things don’t pan out, that’s how risk works. Deal with it and quit whining, or better yet, get a real job.
Risk is only socialized for billionaires, loser
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From 2018-2022, Ford paid roughly 1.3% in federal taxes, which was lower than the pay of their top five executives over that same period.
if every single dealership owner in America shit themselves and had a massive heart attack and died, not a single person would be sad, not even their family members
I'd be sad for all the shit that would have to get cleaned up. Couldn't they just die in agony without making such a mess?
NADA CEO about to be the CEO of nada
The Chinese choking out the American economy might be the only path to a brighter future ironically. A bigger economy eating another one.
If not for the ecological damage and rapidly occuring climate catastrophe i'd agree with you
Comparative advantage, mfers. Learn free trade.
The US is trying to get its "allies" to only buy non-china or russian critical minerals this'll make their input costs even higher and products less competitive
US doesn’t have any allies anymore. Maybe Israel and Saudi Arabia
will likely be undercutting existing brands on price
We have data that supports consumer interest
bad for consumers
Oh, right! Because it perpetuates a culture that necessitates car ownership, right? 
cheap things are now bad for people with no money
Yeah! The $2 socks I bought are incredibly thin, don’t keep my feet warm, and I wore holes in them quickly! The pair I paid $10 for are much thicker and have lasted more than 5x longer. This is clear evidence that I need a $175,000 new car.
You would make a great C-suite executive.
I’ve instructed my lawyers to sue you for defaming me like this.
DW a truly great exec would think wbat you need is a $40,000 car that only lasts 1 year.
Only $40k? What kind of peasant are you?
A broke one, I'm basically giving these cars away*.
{|*extras not included: aircon, leather seats, motor}
No wonder it’s so cheap, it all makes sense now.
I await you in discovery. You may have a team of fancy corporate lawyers on your side but I've seen The Rainmaker. Both the movie and the tv show!
Unfortunately, my lawyers have informed me that as the chairperson of the board of Lockheed Martin, my chances of winning this lawsuit are very slim and I would be better off ordering a mob hit.
Clearly someone graduated from the Boeing school of executive management.
I wore holes in them quickly
stop walking outside in your socks
Walking inside is boring, though.
look at you all fancy with a place to live
The company paid for it.
get fucked. Lol
The answer to this may be abundantly obvious, but: is there anything preventing Americans from visiting Canada, buying a Chinese EV there, and then driving/transporting it home?
The problem will come from sales tax and import duties when you try to register the car in your home state. In most states, you need proof that you've already paid the sales tax when you bought the vehicle (and import duties if the car is foreign), and if you haven't paid enough to match your home state's limit, you will pay additionally to match. This is why people from Alaska get so pissy when they move to the lower 48, because Alaska doesn't have a state sales tax for vehicles, and all of a sudden they're paying thousands of dollars just to register their car in fuckin Idaho.
Technically what you're thinking about already exists on the southern border, plenty of people will buy Chinese cars in Mexico and then drive them up, and they're able to get around the blanket import bans that the US has. However, they then will still have to pay any outstanding sales tax, plus the insane import tax on Chinese vehicles, making the car more expensive. However, given how cheap the Chinese cars are produced, and the relative weakness of the Mexican Peso relative to the USD, it may still come out as a cheaper option, though I'm not well versed in the Mexican auto industry.
The issue nobody ever thinks about is how will you get parts and do maintenance? Who is going to know how to fix it? Who is going to know how to get the parts? For my car I can drive it to the shop on the corner and they have a truck that comes by in the afternoon that will bring them the parts and they can fix it. That truck will never contain the parts needed to fix my imported BYD. Maybe you can get tires, but could you even get brakes for instance?
So even if you could, it would be prohibitively expensive if not impossible to maintain and repair when something goes wrong.
Brake pads and rotors are things you could probably find, but you're right - there will eventually be something to be repaired that will require some research to get the right parts.
It would be pretty difficult to find someone who would want to work on it, so it'd be a DIY-heavy car for sure.
It's possible you wouldn't be able to register it but I'm not well versed in car law.
Someone please respond to me once this has been answered
I tried answering to the best of my car knowledge
Well the answer is obvious. You've been disciplined by the free market, use it to your advantage! You could simply make a better product that people want to buy instead. Since they're giga-tankie at-what-costcels you should have no problem using your American exceptionalism to do better than them. Hope this helps!
the grains of affordable EVs will soon become an unavoidable contradictory heap US capital formations cannot ignore
mexicans right now
They have them in Mexico, too, iirc
Yes but our goverment conceded to trump and imposed tariffs. The BYD car i wanted but didn't pull the trigger on last year is now $20k+added interest more expensive. Fucking succdems.
It sucks when a huge purchase like that has prices that are so volatile. I had a crumbling shit box that I ended up replacing last year and I kept second guessing myself about it.
If it makes you feel any better, I can imagine the Canadians eventually doing something similar.
How many are 3x trump voters or even 2x, and how many of them will moronically do it again