• Optional@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    China has done it, and they’ll be here soon.

    American Auto Manufacturers - it’s hard to even conceive how you’ve thrown away the biggest car market in the history of the world, but. You have. Multiple times.

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      No they won’t, American politicians preach free market all day and night but will protect American automakers from Chinese competition at the same time. They won’t allow BYD on the streets of Michigan because the second they do, the real owners of Detroit stop donating

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        BYD doesn’t pay the tariffs, and they’ll just build a plant in Juarez and boop there they are trundling around the US.

        The real owners of Detroit left 30 years ago. They all live in London, or Phoenix now.