It’s not just subsidies, thought that is part of it, the cost of labor is vastly cheaper, which is a sticking point the US, and frankly Canada and the EU will NEVER be able to compete on.  It’s just impossible.

Chinese automakers have already made it to the EU and some of their cars are winning awards. So what if its the other way around? What if in fact these are actually good cars? 

We’re reaching the capitalism tipping point Year over year growth and record profits every year is not sustainable.

Gotta pay to train them too, of course. It is insane we make people fund their own training, when they have to cover the costs of the training and the daily living costs too during that training, and then we wonder why we have shortages. Pay people to learn, pay them a wage while learning, because people. But we…

I’ll make a very gross, generally sweeping statement. Most vehicles that have been modified by what amounts to adult children- people who are either immature or never really grew up, applied themselves, got an education etc usually means they also create monstrosities of the worst possible taste.

A: The ugly-ass hot…

I actually hear that shit all the time. 

Cue conservative rage over replacing a harmless cartoon white chef with a woke pink logo...

I can deal with like 1 bumper sticker.  It its a political one, vote how you want, but put a trump bumper sticker on and I just mentally note you are are a piece of human garbage.

They’ve studied this and people with tons of stickers are, in fact, statistically more likely to be road raging:

The 13.1 is completely bizarre to me. You’re bragging about having done half a distance. 

“Counterpoint - I have a single 26.2 magnet (about 4 inches round) on my car from the years of training I put into the Boston Marathon. And when I go to other running things, people actually do ask about the effort.”

They’re all terrible, but IMO they’re all degrees of terrible. The Darwin-fish things are dumb, but seeing thin-blue-line/punisher stickers make my blood boil.

Counterpoint - I have a single 26.2 magnet (about 4 inches round) on my car from the years of training I put into the Boston Marathon. And when I go to other running things, people actually do ask about the effort.

I’ve said it for years: Any stickers on cars. They lower the value, both perceived and actual.  Plus, the more stickers, the worse (and dumber) the driver.  

There’s 100% a correlation between someone having a bumper sticker complaining about tailgaters and being an atrocious driver.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing,
but only after exhausting every other possibility. (-Churchill?)

This is the world the NRA and the GOP signed us up for. We’ll just have to live in it.

I think the overall shift from mile and a half ovals in the middle of corn fields to places like downtown Chicago has helped, too. Was the Chicago track a great track? Um... no. Was the race fun? Yes.  A spectacle was delivered.

In the world of yachts $24mm is a bargain. 

I know it’s uncool to like big, fancy yachts, but as far as those things go, this thing is actually pretty neat. It has a very unique look as a result of it’s original design. I also think as far as giant yachts go, that’s the sweet spot as far as size goes before it becomes completely ridiculous and ostentatious (yes…