Articles like this are just funny to me. I mean, look at the way it starts, “China’s EV market is imploding: Beijing’s grand ambition threatens to take down the global car industry.” Both the title and the subtitle are telling you “China bad” but for completely opposite reasons. The subtitle wants you to be afraid that China’s EV market is going to be strong enough to dominate the global auto industry - China bad! But the title wants you to know that the EV market is failing because - China bad! It’s ridiculous, it really is a Catch-22 where the author will try to evoke negative feelings about China regardless of what they do or don’t do, regardless of what’s true or untrue, which is exactly what I’ve come to expect from this trash outlet, always full of the most chauvanistic takes imaginable.

As other commenters have pointed out, the auto industry is also propped up by government intervention in the US, particularly with tariffs. And naturally, this wave of protectionism (there and elsewhere) shrinks the market for Chinese cars, resulting in overproduction. A problem which the Chinese government has identified and has moved to address, as mentioned in the article. But of course, when the Chinese government makes an honest assessment of an internal problem, Western sources use that to blow it out of proportion. And the cheaper prices resulting from the reduced size of the market is presented as some sort of underhanded scheme, which in turn justified tariffs.

What would this article even look like, if you removed all the loaded language, all the scaremongering and shitting on China? “Tariffs lead to reduced demand for Chinese EVs, leading to lower prices.” There, done, saved you a bajillion words.

It’s insane how obsessed libs are with this shit. If you give them any opportunity to reaffirm their loyalty to the government they’ll leap at it with everything they’ve got.

The NYT is what billionaires want to tell me, and if they expect me to pay for the privilege they’re out of their minds. Oughta be paying me to read that trash.

If you were talking about actually independent sources providing other perspectives then you might have a point.

I mixed up the threads, which wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t followed me around dragging it out into another thread in a desperate attempt to weasel out of providing the evidence that you don’t have because it doesn’t exist.

Evidence or GTFO.

Witch, tankie, sealion, fascist, it doesn’t matter the label, the tactics employed are the exact same.

lol this thread is off the rails and should probably get modded

Yes, it should be. I was trying to shitpost in peace when PJ comes here trying to start shit with me to distract from another conversation in order to weasel out of providing any evidence.

offered evidence of some (supposedly controversial) event.

Lol no he did not. Not even a shred. On principle, even.

See, I’m accused of being a witch, and by asking for proof that any witchcraft actually happened I’m questioning the Inquisition and proving my guilt.

How will I ever recover?

I did a wrongthink 😔

I’m so sorry. There are, in fact, three lights. I will never trust my own eyes ever again, I pledge to always follow whatever the group decides is correct and never again to think for myself or question what I’m told. I hearby renounce all standards of evidence and uphold the in-group’s symbolic beliefs as the highest authority of epistemology. Will you ever forgive me?

…still on the shitpost comm, yeah?

You’re still trying to get me into a debate, lol. You’re still hurling accusations with no basis in reality. Because you will neither provide evidence, nor will you GTFO.

Evidence, or GTFO.

Bro you come into this thread, guns blazing, attacking me and trying to get me into a debate, I tell you to leave me alone, and somehow I’m the one demanding you “debate me?” No, please, do not debate me. Please leave me alone. But if you are going to follow me around, attacking me and trying to get me to debate you, all I ask is one simple thing:

Evidence or GTFO.

That’s it. If you’re going to hurl accusations at me, then provide evidence that the things you’re attacking me for denying are actually grounded in reality.

Evidence or GTFO.

Do you deny the “white genocide,” yes or no?

Evidence or GTFO.

(That video is literally what you’re doing in this thread lol)

Evidence or GTFO.

That comic is not an excuse for rejecting the entire concept of evidence lmao.

Evidence or GTFO.

Evidence or GTFO.

Do you deny the ongoing US genocide of Italians? Yes or no. Do you deny the “white genocide?” Yes or no.

Evidence or GTFO.

No, I want you to provide evidence that the genocide you claim to exist actually exists. That’s all I want from you and from now on it’s the only thing I’ll say to you.

How many posts is that with you providing zero evidence? I should start keeping a tally. You’re probably up to like a hundred with me alone.

Bruh that’s literally you in the comic. Stop following me around. I’m trying to eat breakfast.

Dumbass really thought “sealioning” meant, “asking for evidence, in any context” 😭😭😭

Fuck off, fascist genocide supporter. I know you love talking to me but stop following me to other threads.

What the fuck are you talking about. Stop following me around to other threads.

If you like talking to me so much, finish our other conversation by providing the evidence I asked. I’m not discussing anything else with you until then.

The deal to end the shutdown. Imo the Dems caved, getting very little in exchange.