They make such great use of our tax dollars.

The broken dream of corporate executives to exploit China 😢

He hasn’t realized he’s just a tool yet?

Is davos a gathering of villains hell-bent on making the world a worse place?

The market will shrug it off like it did with the tariffs (which were also supposed to tank everything) because line must go up no matter what. Maybe if the market regained some semblance of rationality it would recognize how bad things are, but that’s not where we’re at, so it’s pointless looking at the market as some sort of measurement of anything to do with reality.

BYD and Xiaomi profit from their EVs.

I’m told that Americans only want big expensive cars but for some reason the government felt the need to slap 100% tariffs on small inexpensive Chinese cars.

Before they were building mcmansions and charging a fortune for them. Now they’re building sardine cans and charging a fortune for them. Much better.

The US heavily subsidizes its auto industry. Why is this being raised as a point against China? It’s not China’s fault that American auto companies use their subsidies to line their pockets instead of creating cheaper and better vehicles.

To be fair, department of war is far more accurate a name.

ITT: Morons supporting a genocidal ethnostate to own the tankies.

Generalizations are fun!

You’ll find that representative democracy is not all that representative.

Also, from a purely pedantic perspective, private ownership of tanks and (afaik) jet fighters is perfectly legal if you have the insane amount of money you’d need to buy one. The same is true of automatic weapons if you go to the trouble and expense to get an FFL.

Yes, technically legal but fraught with regulation, which is what people are asking for with gun control.

Military quality weapons? Then where are the civilian tanks and fighter jets? Hell, even just automatic weapons are out of our hands.

They cannot be everywhere, but they’re certainly trying with ever-increasing surveillance and AI to go through all that data.