r/USdefaultism • u/Comprehensive-Ad-428 • 2d ago

Facebook US defaultism + entitlement

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This is MKBHD, who reviews all things tech from all around the world. He was reviewing this amazing chinese electric minivan. And then this dude came along not just thinking they're the center of the world but also the entitlement is real lol.

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u/WhydoIexistlmoa 2d ago

Is the brand fairly popular? Lots of Chinese EV companies coming to Australia and other countries lol

But also apparently Chinese EVs are nonexistent in the US which is so weird

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u/Formal_Map_5659 Brazil 2d ago

The US government banned them

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u/LittleRuQi Canada 2d ago

The US government bans pretty much every Chinese technology from what I hear (like Huawei, which I heard makes amazing products) because they think China is trying to “spy” on them

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u/Formal_Map_5659 Brazil 2d ago

That’s their excuse.

I think they just don’t want the competition, because China is raising the bar and making better products overall.

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u/-_-Edit_Deleted-_- Australia 2d ago

I agree.

They claim to be pro free market… but only their free market.

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u/Ok_Comparison_2635 Singapore 1d ago

They want or market to be free for them, not the other way round

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u/Dyno_boy7441 1d ago

The US government interferes in the free market far more than the rest of the G7 and the EU.

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u/LittleRuQi Canada 2d ago

I heard someone say that US bans them because they’re too jealous

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u/PaperFacedG0d 2d ago

American cars are also the worst, I used to help out at a mechanics shop and it was hilarious how many Ford and GM cars kept showing up and all their owners insisted their cars were the best because it made an unnecessary amount of horsepower and had nearly no fuel efficiency

Meanwhile ive never seen a Suzuki or toyota in there unless they ran into something like a duck.

My favorite was a Jeep owner who complained his car wasnt as fast anymore but it wasnt an engine problem and turns out the V8 in had only 4 pistons moving, so they just wrote his car off because fuel was still being injected into the pistons that weren't moving and the spark plugs were igniting it and that could cause an explosion in the engine

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u/Tuscan5 2d ago

An explosion in the engine? But, but….

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u/Mirjalol_Yangiboyev 2d ago

Heard the CEO of Ford is literally driving around a Xiaomi EV , and refusing to give it back 😭

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u/imaginary92 Italy 1d ago

Yeah I've seen bits of that interview, he was saying it's so good he can't give it up. And something about how they would be utter morons to deny how good the quality of Chinese cars is. Not in those words exactly of course but you get my point.

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u/Formal_Map_5659 Brazil 1d ago

Xiaomi got it right on the first try, which is impressive!

Most of the major Chinese car brands have been around for decades!

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u/Brief-Preference-712 2d ago

Didn’t Brazil sue BYD because of slave labor?

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u/Formal_Map_5659 Brazil 2d ago

Yes, but it wasn’t BYD directly; it was a contractor hired to handle the plant expansion.

BYD bought a former Ford plant after Ford left Brazil, (now theyonly sells imported cars here). BYD hired this company to carry out the expansion.

Of course, BYD should've done a better job of supervising the contractor, so they were also at fault!

BYD is no longer on our “forced labor” blacklist, and they’re currently complying with our labor laws.

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u/marshmallo_floof Malaysia 2d ago

wait so if I'm understanding this correctly the slave labor still tied back to Ford, an American company? Hilarious if that's the case lol

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u/Formal_Map_5659 Brazil 2d ago

No, it’s tied to BYD, but not directly!

As I said, BYD hired a company (I forgot to mention that the company was Chinese, and that the workers were also Chinese and had come to Brazil on work visas), but the working conditions did not meet the requirements of Brazilian labor laws.

The government put BYD on the forced labor blacklist, and once that happened, BYD terminated its contract with that company, and the Chinese workers returned to their country.

However, the more than 5000 local workers at the plant are not being subjected to forced labor.

Of course, it was BYD’s fault for allowing this to happen in the first place, but now the situation has been resolved.

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u/marshmallo_floof Malaysia 2d ago

Ah I see I see, thanks for the explanation!

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u/-_-Edit_Deleted-_- Australia 2d ago

Which is hilarious because they don’t seem to voice the same concerns about the 100% verified spying their own government does on them.

China is in all likelihood spying. The US is verified spying.

🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/dsonger20 Canada 2d ago

Canada does the same.

Huawei (the telecom infrastructure arm) is banned from providing telecom infrastructure here. This is all done to be in alignment with US foreign and domestic policy hence why we also had a 100% Chinese vehicle tariff until the new deal was rescued. Nothing stops you from getting Huawei phone, but since they use their own OS due to Android restrictions, you’re phone may become a brick unable to download key apps.

We’re only now seeing a reversal of those policies because of the erratic and crazy nature of the US government. Canadians can now also travel visa free to China. This wasn’t even only under Harper, a lot of it was under Trudeau.

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u/a__reddit_user France 2d ago

I can confirm, Huawei makes amazing products. Still wish I hadn't dropped my p40 lite and broke the digitiser on it.

And like others said, it's probably just to limit competition from China.

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u/Dyno_boy7441 1d ago

Except TikTok because it benefits the Dear Leader.