There’s no effort to create a fair playing field to give up. The US uses every tool at its disposal to be the dominant global economic hegemon. Including waging war all over the world and basing its soldiers in every corner and on every border. USians are so chaotically ignorant about our “adversaries”. “But I saw on…

Nobody plays by the fake “rules”. You think American market dominance wasn’t built on IP theft, espionage, colonial extractionism, and adversarial relationships with other powers? Have you ever heard of Amazon? Who built their market dominance by selling at artificially low prices and putting local folks out of…

No, no, it also solves the housing crisis: they can just live in their new EVs. The US auto industry has pulled another fast one on the American public. They jumped the shark on EVs and got the government to subsidize the transition. We should be subsidizing the purchase of USED hybrids, if anything. 

Don’t stop there, genes play an outsized role in health and obesity. We should just off the genetically impure!

Yes, your rights end where they impinge on mine. Also, my tax dollars helped pay for the roads you drive on, so I get a say in how you use them.

This is absolutely false. Only 17% of traffic deaths occur on interstates and freeways. 48% of traffic deaths occur on roads with speed limits of 50 mph or lower. It’s for that reason that speed limiters are way more important in lower speed-limited urban areas where the distracted speeding is more likely to kill…

Now you’re talking.

File this under: “The US is a 3rd world country by any metric other than per capita GDP or military/police expenditures”.

I suppose if you can’t see a difference between not allowing vehicles to exceed speed limits and somehow controlling how much food people eat or forcing humans to exercise, there’s not much of a conversation to be had.

One important detail I didn’t see: how much does it cost?

They already have that and yet 16k people died on the roads last year. Anything else?

Neither are possible, so what else you got?

You’ve almost got it: enforcement, whether through cameras or cops that might end up shooting you, will not reduce deaths. We’ve had distracted driving laws on the books and they do nothing. The only thing that works is physically forcing people to slow down so that when they’re inevitably buried in their phone they…

More or less dystopian than 16k corpses?

They commit a tiny fraction of the human rights abuses the US does and their tight links with corporate interests have a fundamentally different composition than ours. Our “tight links” are that corporations run our country. Their “tight links” are that many corporations are state-owned or have governmental…

He xenophobically suggests the Chinese need to overthrow their elected leader, implying they are too dumb to pick their own leaders and don’t know a hell of a lot more about them than he does. Westerners generally know next to nothing about any governments, including their own, but love to tell other countries what…

You called them a kleptocratic mess. That’s a far cry from “not above reproach”. Every government is not above reproach.

It’s not a kleptocratic mess. Westerners would do well to understand how the Chinese political system works before spouting off. There’s a big difference between kleptocratic mess and perfectly moral. The truth lies in between, like with most governments.

US propaganda has turned even your average 1969 Charger guy into a virulent anti-China xenophobe. Sad!

Step 1: cut costs by going to touch screens that mirror phones