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      9 hours ago

      You generally don’t want to incentivize the practice of dumping since its goal is putting competition out of business.

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        Don’t really care about the competition. I care about having cheap access to EVs. If the competition can’t compete, then fuck em. That’s not my problem.

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          EVs won’t be cheap for long if there’s no competition.

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            Is there any domestically produced competition in Canada? The only one a search returns is still a concept (not yet commercially available). Everything else looks to be imported from elsewhere?

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        Canada doesn’t really have its own automaker. We do have American subsidiaries of Ford, etc. and if they’re gonna go under we’ll deal with that when it happens.

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      I don’t think Canada needs poorly made and barely working Chinese crap.

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        Been to Mexico lately? BDS and other Chinese manufacturers are killing it, they make Teslas look like a Model T.

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          Really? My aunt buys Chinese things all the time, and yes, the things are cheap, but in a bad sense of the word, they are poorly made.

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          Questionable, my aunt bought a bunch of Chinese crap, and it’s all badly made and barely fulfills its functions. For example, the kettle has a handle that barely holds and is constantly wobbly, the meat grinder has a blade so blunt that it doesn’t even cut… meat, and so on.

          Also, these things were probably made by slaves (and some of them, like phones, may be spyware), so…

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            Here’s where I’m at.

            If you buy shit, you get shit. If you go on Amazon looking for a Chinese-made chef’s knife, the options are $5 to $150.

            If you want to blame someone for having a home full of chinese shit, the blame isn’t on China. It’s on your aunt lmao.

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        “What you talking about Doc? All the best stuff is made in China.”

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          If I remember correctly, Doc was talking about Japan in the movie, not China :/