You simp for capitalism when you personally like it

Wow, that’s what you took from it? That I like capitalism? To the point of simping for it?

You must be even more dense than I thought 😄

Sure, can’t just admit you were wrong like a big boy/girl/other. That’s obviously beyond your capabilities.

Good comeback 🙄

Mostly the main reason

Apart from not being true, that doesn’t even make grammatical or mathematical sense 😄

That and state subsidies to kill the foreign car market with long term goals

Except that goes both ways, with Europe and the US subsidizing their automakers and disadvantaging the Chinese ones just as much if not even more.

Someone always suffers with capitalism.

True.

Even state capitalism

Also true, although protectionism ≠ state capitalism.

Capitalism is a philosophy/ideology where the maximum accumulation of capital possible is held up as the main goal of existence.

Protectionism DOESN’T maximize the capital of the state, or the majority of the people residing in it, only the companies benefitting from it and the politicians they bribe.

European carmakers have dozens of EV models

Yes, but they make many times more ICE ones than that, despite the fact that consumers generally prefer EVs as long as the price is right.

and they are dominating the EU market though selling poorly outside it.

That’s probably heavily influenced by national and EU subsidies and other regulations designed to give them significant advantages over non-European competitors, rather than what European drivers want.

the ICE market in the EU still accounts for about three quarters of the market

Because of the aforementioned stubbornness and preferential treatment more than anything else.

The EU was going to ban new ICE cars by 2030, before lobbying from the major car making countries succeeded in pushing it back to 2040. I just hope they won’t succeed in their current efforts to push it back even farther if not repeal the regulation entirely 😮‍💨

That’s another part of it, sure, but DEFINITELY not the whole or even main reason.

I wonder if the fact that most American and European carmakers are stubbornly clinging to the 1800s technology known as the internal combustion engine while Chinese ones are actively embracing the modern technology that car buyers actually want has anything to do with it 🤔

Or maybe the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority which owns it and rakes in an estimated yearly income of $166.5 million on years where there ISN’T a major international event should use some of their vast riches to make it accessible.

It’s in the middle of wetlands across two rivers and over some cliffs from manhattan. Something like a 6-7 hour walk from midtown despite being like 6 miles away in a straight line

That’s absolutely insane!

That’s like Evil Lair island shit!

a business like Temu, which relies on a difference of a few cents at large scale de facto slave labor, substandard materials, and avoiding all safety practices to make a profit.

Fixed it for you.

“A few cents” billions of times still amounts to billions in profits. They’ll do fine without the relative pittance that they undoubtedly consider the cost of doing business rather than an incentive to improve.

Hezbollah has the same motivations that made Hamas reject a two state solution

Yes, survival.

The fabled “two state solution” is a fig leaf, and a very bad one at that.

If you think that being a separate nation or even a separate but nearby nation that isn’t in any way hostile towards Israel will keep you safe from the IOF, I have a Pastafarian church in Damascus to sell you.

No, you’re still bying their “self defense” narrative.

They’re invading Lebanon for the same reason invasions ever happen: in order to own or at least control land that belongs to another country.

There’s exactly one way that they could be safe from attacks from Lebanon: by stopping the occupation of and slaughter in Palestine.

More than half the population of Lebanon are Palestinians driven from their homes by Israel two generations back at most, and that’s what created Hezbollah.

Not Iran. Not antisemitism. Not spontaneous evil.

Hezbollah was caused by the same thing as most radical paramilitary groups: desperation and fury in the face of seemingly untouchable tormentors.

I’m not saying that they’d immediately disband the moment the occupation and genocide end, but it sure as hell would make the radicalization needed for recruitment harder to accomplish, especially as time goes on with no fresh atrocities.

A failure of Israel’s defensive weapons would require them to go on the offensive.

According to themselves, a day ending in y would require them to go on the offensive.

This is all a conflict of choice for them and the US and, if damage to the dome has any effect on them (which it probably won’t, since they’re so far gone down the colonialism genocide spiral), it would be to make them more cautious due to their own people being more vulnerable to consequences of their state terrorism.

There havent been many deaths in those conflicts(comparatively). I think it only adds an extra 85k

Putting aside (unintentionally?) calling the Palestinian genocide a “conflict”, the last reliable death count for Gaza alone was already 186k two years ago and the rate of extermination has only INCREASED since then.

85k for Gaza, West Bank, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, and other countries in the region combined is a RIDICULOUS undercount.

Sounds like a good idea, except for the throwing sounding impractical if not downright reckless 🤔

At which point we’ll defend ourselves by switching to the Euro and maybe even finally show some backbone by boycotting the apartheid-supporting and - sponsored* song contest Sweden keeps winning

*main sponsor Moroccanoil is not a Moroccan oil company, it’s an Israeli cosmetics company

😁😘

No such thing when it comes to messing with Swedes 😁

As a Dane, it’s my sworn duty to mess with our beloved neighbors at every opportunity 😁

Even better: we should force them to convert to Swedish kroner, just to spite them and see how the Swedes react