So you have problems digesting and interpreting short sentences in English correctly, gotcha.

I’m always so curious why people think China would be interested in what they do, aside from the normal sleazy things businesses do in terms of selling data and serving ads and whatnot. I mean, maybe you’re the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or a diplomat or something.

It’s really not like the “We’re a Republic, not a Democracy” thing at all. There are a bunch of different variations on how countries implement their democracies, and those differences have real implications, but it’s nothing like the difference between what China is (generic authoritarianism) and what Communism is.

You…

Should I call you a Reagan-apologist? Because my guess would be that you gaze at your navel a lot more than I do. 

They’re an authoritarian state that controls their economy to levels and in ways that countries with anything like a free market could never tolerate.

The owner failed to tick the “don’t burst into flames” box on page 51 of 98 in the EULA. 

It’s not arguing semantics though. China has long abandoned communism in favor of state controlled capitalism more akin to Russia’s oligarchy.

As usual, every accusation from the right is projection. What’s actually indicative of agitprop is the use, by you and the op, of a bogeyman political label that doesn’t remotely fit as a pejorative, ultimately as a means of denigrating people who also are not communist or chinese but are tied to both categories in…

Holy hyperlinks, Batman! I had to mouse over so many of them before finding the relevant one.

If this truck was on Mars, it wouldn’t have burned so fiercely.

How does pointing out that there is really nothing Communist about China’s dictatorship make him a Sino-apologist?

He willingly drove (and probably bought) a Cybertruck. Let’s hope he was eligible for a Darwin award (i.e. he hadn’t procreated yet).

Feature or bug?

You look detached from reality to the rest of us. <shrugs harder>

Calling it “communist China” is reductionist to the point of almost being wrong, and shows a lack of knowledge concerning both China and communism; which, empirically proven, quite normal for Americans (and to a lesser extent, Europeans). On top of that, it makes you sound like Trump.

Oh? And you don’t care about the US automakers collecting this info and selling it to all comers? Even if the Red Commies get a hold of your data, they are just going to sell it to the same people Tesla, GM, and Ford sell it to. They aren’t going to use it to infiltrate your precious bodily fluids, unless you’re an…

Texas State troopers are now investigating what happened during the crash that took place in the early morning house of August 5.

Of course the truck self immolated to destroy all evidence, and embarrassment.

Singular they is older than singular you. You’re not an old timer, you’re just dumb.

people have been using “they” in this context for hundreds of years. It ain’t woke, it’s just the language usage shifting and you’re being an old fuddy-duddy.