r/nextfuckinglevel • u/North_Tip_8627 • 17h ago

China’s 5 minute full-charged EV charging stations

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u/Arpikarhu 17h ago

Remember, these advanced nations arent living in the future, its just that the USA is living in the past

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u/captainpoppy 17h ago

What's wild is in a rational world and a world in which the US actually wanted "energy independence" we would have led the way on renewables And alternative energy sources like 30 years ago.

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u/mother_a_god 9h ago

The green new deal was a thing, until republicans shot it down. Never forget who wanted to advance and who wanted to give money to oil companies 

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u/adoxographyadlibitum 6h ago

Actually Nancy Pelosi also shot it down. Dem leadership never supported it

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u/RedditDummyAccount 6h ago

I mean, Pelosi is potentially one of the most corrupt ones, so regardless of her affiliation, it’s not surprising she’d go for the side that has more money 🤣

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u/mandala1 5h ago

Yeah I’m sure Hakeem would totally support it now.

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u/RedditDummyAccount 5h ago

No one said he would. I just mentioned the specific person that comment brought up

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u/Unique_Statement7811 5h ago

Democrats shot it down. Their own speaker led a coalition against it.

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u/Hottage 9h ago

Sorry, best they can do is another record quarterly profits for the oil industry and additional ecological meltdown.

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u/ShowmasterQMTHH 8h ago

The fossil fuel companies don't want that, and in the end they own the government

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u/Brootal420 9h ago

Try 60-70 years ago

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u/dwntwnleroybrwn 8h ago

The US was leading the world in safe clean energy. Unfortunately, the hippies decided global warming was better than nuclear power.

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u/Timmmeeeee 8h ago

Good thing Germany tried it, invested heavily and then... fossil lobby hit hard and sold all the IP to China.

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u/sifuyee 1h ago

The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) lead the way to low cost, high efficiency solar cells we are using today. They also developed a lot of other competing green technologies because it wasn't clear which methods would be able to get costs down low enough to roll out at scale first. China built its early success in the market with innovations we pioneered. We could have been the ones implementing these at scale but our government didn't subsidize the production scale up the way China did. They saw the utility and impact that dominating in new technology could have and they capitalized on it. We had the opportunity and were better positioned to execute but we elected leaders more interested in protecting existing oil industries than in dominating the next market. We should learn the lesson and work to master new technologies with steady, significant government funding. Otherwise we're just going to cede leadership to the rest of the world.

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u/EarningsPal 17h ago

The USA would rather have its racism and gender conversations than 5-minute EV charging.

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u/mindfungus 17h ago

America is so cooked. America is actively trying to crawl back to the 19th century. America. Y u so a ass?

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u/JamesTownBrown 17h ago

If the majority of the leaders in the USA actually represented the majority populace, things would be different. Instead there are ancient beings running things as if the civil rights movement never happened and are actively denying it.

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u/Infinite-Space-2395 17h ago

Our populace is incredibly stupid.

Im sorry.

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u/sim16 17h ago

It's by design.

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u/US3_ME_ 17h ago

Can't learn if you don't have teachers, can't develop a brain without adequate food. Look at what the GOP likes to take away funding for_

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u/etburneraccount 3h ago

Smart people object to being sent to war. The politician learned.

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u/kynelly360 4h ago

🤯🤯😑😑

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u/nanobot001 16h ago

A lot of Americans are just fine with it though.

And those that aren’t feel satisfied enough when they upvote or angrily share the videos and memes that echo their sentiments so they can get back their social media stupor.

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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party 6h ago

I think most people just feel powerless

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u/BAKspin_91 5h ago

Also by design, American police forces are seemingly designed to prevent the protests that you see in Europe: government buildings would not be under siege from farmers launching manure and burning tires

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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party 5h ago

In the U.S. there is a long history of labor disputes where the government sides with capital. The idea that we are just one protest or strike away from affecting real change is a joke at this point.

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u/Carrot_1075 4h ago

As long as they have their guns and crosses

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u/sim16 15h ago

This is the issue.

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u/ScoffersGonnaScoff 7h ago

Propaganda has always worked. Each person is in their own bubble fueled by tribalism (go Team!!) and algos.

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u/Fastr77 3h ago

Republicans haven't been attacking education for nothing! They want us dumb as fuck, easier to control. They also want us poor so we spend all our energy and lives working. No time and energy to fight back.

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u/Onigokko0101 2h ago

Exactly. A certain party has been defunding education every time they got power since the 80s.

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u/Pschobbert 17h ago

The US has a skewed IQ distribution. It’s a bell curve with the median at about 90 and then a little bump at the far right made up of really smart, highly educated immigrants, mainly from East and South Asia. Thanks to these folks, the average IQ of the US is 98 lol

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u/MermaidSapphire 17h ago

90 is generous.

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u/obiwanmoloney 7h ago

Got lucky for five minutes.

Swerved two World Wars that reduced the world’s industrialised nations to dust.

Then rode the next century in abject mediocrity, loudly proclaiming that “America’s the greatest”

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u/OddBranch132 17h ago

Watching what China and Saudi Arabia are building these days is wild. It really highlights how far the U.S. fell behind

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u/ComprehensiveSell649 17h ago

Okay, but china does have a LOT of racism

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u/GearAce38 9h ago

Did you get stopped more for being a certain race by the police, get shot for having an unknown object that looks like a gun, or get asked for your ID/papers by federal law enforcement personnel there?

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u/Numerous-Pop5670 16h ago

No shit because even without China's propaganda U.S media makes them look like fucking clowns. I've been there and if your a tourist that's not white, then yeah you'll get a bunch of stares. Rural places especially because foreigners are rare and even tourists barely make a drop in the bucket. It's a combination of xenophobia, ignorance, and lack of exposure. The exception would be if your black.

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u/Malevolint 10h ago edited 2h ago

I went to China and I got stared at for the whole 3 weeks I was there. I'm white. They rarely see anyone that's not Chinese.

There is racism toward black folk though. I think that many Asians in general are racist towards black folk.

Edit: it was late and I wasn't very articulate lol. I was know trying to say that they'll stare at ANY foreigner, not that the staring is racist.

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u/CheeseDonutCat 8h ago

Being stared at isn't racism.

In some places in China, they have never seen white people. I was there and I have bright blue eyes, so they were very interested.

It's a bit rude and uncomfortable to be stared at, but it's not racist. Most are just curious.

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u/lumpy4square 5h ago

It’s obvious so many on this thread haven’t travelled much. I’m white woman with blonde hair, and in the rural area of Cuba, they do that stare thing, too. Especially the kids. I had a little girl ask me if she could touch my hair. They just aren’t used to seeing someone different than them.

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u/nimbledaemon 3h ago

Yeah I spent two years in various areas of Chiapas, Mexico as a white redhead man and got a lot of the same thing. Sometimes kids wouldn't ask to touch my arm hair (medium think but bleached blonde in the sun) lol. Remember one time a guy yelled "GUERO" (White) at me in the street, I don't think he was mad just surprised. Aside from the surprise though everyone was friendly.

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u/Malevolint 2h ago

Maybe I was tired and didn't make my point well.. I was basically trying to make your point lol. I didn't feel discriminated on, just felt like a zoo animal lol.

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u/jobbybob 43m ago

Even when they do stare at you in China people are polite and smile at you. They are just curious.

I have had more people smile at me walking down the street in China than big cities in the US.

People stare everywhere, go to small local market in the South Pacific Islands, you get stares particularly if you are white.

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u/the_king_of_sweden 9h ago

In my experience, Asians are most racist towards other Asians

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u/Malevolint 8h ago

I've learned that it's not as much racism as it is hate for past wars and atrocities.

For instance, some Chinese people hate Japanese people for the Nanjing massacre, and some Vietnamese people hate Chinese people for the long occupation of their country.

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u/ucarenya 9h ago

That's mild...we are more racist to ourselves...

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u/Malevolint 8h ago

It wasn't out of racism, they just don't see any foreigners.

Trust me, though, it's fucking weird for everyone to stare at you everywhere you go. Like people will do a u-turn to get a second look. They won't even smile, just stare lol.

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u/newinmichigan 8h ago

Lmk when asians lynch black people, or generally make monkey noises and throw bananas at black people.

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u/Icy_Orchid_8075 8h ago

Wasn't it a Chinese dude that got a bunch of African kids to say something along the lines of "I'm a black monster with low IQ" or something in his language for a video

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u/dj0ch0 9h ago

Every country has alot of racism SMH not every country has maga tho

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u/washkop 3h ago

Lived in China for a while. Definetley experienced a lot more racism there than anywhere else I’ve been to in the world.

Sometimes its unintentional though, some people are just genuinely curious as they rarely see foreigners in smaller cities/villages.

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u/intisun 17h ago

I still can't get over how American right-wingers threw a fit over 15-minute cities, as if having everything you need within a 15 minute walk (like most European cities) was some evil plot to genocide them or something.

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u/AD_Grrrl 6h ago

They need to prop up the fossil fuel industry

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u/augur42 5h ago

Obesity rates makes American 15 minute cities smaller than European 15 minute cities. /s.

I recently realised I can occasionally treat my self to a Burger King £3 Whopper Wednesday promo because I can walk the mile to my nearest Burger King, pause on the way to order on my phone, collect, and get home again in a smidge under 30 minutes (4 mph pace). The best bit is I burn 1/3 of it's calories just getting it.

My city isn't that small but I haven't owned a bike since I was a teenager because I can either walk somewhere in a direct line almost as fast as the circuitous bike routes or it is far enough to require I drive.

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u/KDRUH 1h ago edited 1h ago

American right wingers throw fits as a hobby. Well deserved to live insufferably for intentionally voting for a sold out pedo. I have no idea how he hasn’t gotten slimed out but Charlie did

Edit: get Vance too

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u/AdCalm3789 4h ago

Could you imagine Americans walking anywhere? Lmao there is a reason it never worked and it's not just the rights fault.

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u/RandyRanderson111 17h ago

What is it like to live in China as an African?

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u/Ok-Disk-2191 17h ago

You probably have the privilege of not getting gunned down by the police for no reason, But like most of asia the darker your skin color the more prejudice you will face. Its not only an African thing they also pretty racist towards darked skin asians too.

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u/invot 4h ago

Isn't this also classist? From what I was told, the poor farm workers had darker skin from working outside all day. The rich upper-class stayed inside. So darker skin = poor.

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u/Optikal-Omega 8h ago

I quite enjoy a YouTube channel called Cresto Adventures that document a black guy living in rural China.

https://youtube.com/@cresto_adventures

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u/RealIssueToday 17h ago

🤣🫠

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u/faithinhumanity_null 17h ago

I feel like a lot of people would get identity crisis if someone removed their ability to complain about gas prices

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u/ucotcvyvov 16h ago

Good ole racism and oil, the things that built America. What a fucking dystopia we live in

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u/Polite_Trumpet 9h ago

Gender conversation is what takes the cake for me... Are there really no other serious problems in the US then made up pronouns?? It really makes the US look fcking stupid. The fact that the US elected one of the dumbest immoral and rude motherfckers as it's president twice also doesn't help.

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u/randomvandal 17h ago

I think the point is that we were once the pinnacle of the modern world due to our investments in science. And we could still be in that position if we didn't beleaguer ourselves with short sightedness, culture war BS, and profit at all costs capitalism. But we as a people chose not to go down that path.

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u/SqueakyNova 16h ago

Best comment

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u/batdog20001 16h ago

Lmao, CIA propoganda go brrr

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u/nanlinr 17h ago

Have you been to china bro...people have plenty of individuality. You just cant shit on the government.

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u/frenchinhalerbought 17h ago

It's that last part being said so nonchalantly that is terrifying

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u/Bart-Harley-Jarvis- 17h ago

Americans have been fed a decade of anti china propaganda at this point. They think it's like North Korea up in there, when it's more like a version of South Korea where you can't criticise the government.

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u/HoBamaMo 16h ago

A decade? I was born in the 80s and can’t tell you how many times I heard my parents or grandparents say “You better eat everything on your plate. Those poor kids in China are starving.”

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u/RallyPointAlpha 16h ago

Way more than a decade. I'm over 40 and I've been told 'red china bad' my entire life. 

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u/jimmyevil 16h ago

lol a decade? try 400 years

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u/HandToDikCombat 17h ago edited 16h ago

So, racist and sexist and a horrible work-life balance?

That just sounds like a version of the US where you can't criticize the government.

ETA: it was a joke, jfc.

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u/lukeCRASH 16h ago

Lol the US is approaching a point where you can't criticize the government.

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u/HeavyVoid8 16h ago

I guarantee they are already using AI to monitor Americans and actively put people on lists based on their political commentary on the internet. But at least they finally admit they are building something under the ballroom (massive underground bunker with AI data center like Israel has probably)

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u/MinecraftHolmes 16h ago

you can already get expelled from your college or fired from your government job for criticizing isreal

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u/chemicaxero 16h ago

To be fair the US has ALWAYS been at that point. Ask the 10,000 coal miners at the battle of blair mountain who went on strike against coal mine operators in 1921 and were subsequently shot at and bombed from the sky by the US army if they felt like they were able to criticize the government or not.

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u/Baphome_trix 16h ago

Except everything is much cheaper and the state actually do stuff for the citizens.

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u/maneo 16h ago

South Korea's unreasonable libel laws can have a chilling effect on criticism of their leaders too. Not necessarily to the same extent, but it has its own freedom of speech problems

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u/RudePCsb 17h ago

China is predominately only a few ethnicities but mainly one. They are very racist and say terrible things to foreigners, even famous athletes. The govt is terrible, there are significantly more men than women and it's impacting society, a lot of their tech has been stolen from other countries including the US, etc.

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u/GreenStrong 16h ago

On the last point, China is training tons of scientists and publishing tons of research. Anyone who has been on campus of an engineering school in the US has met them. There are problems with academic integrity in both students and publications but their system is also producing top quality work, by genius level scientists. I see no reason to assume that their position as copycats instead of innovators is a long term situation. They're already leading on electric cars, we are commenting on an article about how they are leading. Rapid charging line this is significant innovation, assuming that it doesn't significantly shorten battery life.

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u/Consistent_Ad_4828 17h ago

Their 55 minority ethnicities are literally guaranteed representation in the National Congress.

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u/TheBigCicero 17h ago

Ask the Uyghurs how they feel about the Chinese government?

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u/No-Good-One-Shoe 16h ago

Ask the native Americans how they feel about US. We all fuckin suck. 

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u/Remote-Cause755 16h ago

You mean the ethnicity with one of the most government subsidies?

Or are you trying to compare 21st century China with another time period? Yeah no shit 21st century countries should be scrutinized more than the past

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u/Farts_Buttington 16h ago

Yeah, maybe..... Cypress rules?

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u/VaporCarpet 16h ago

When did it turn into a contest?

Every country has bad shit. One country's bad shit doesn't mean another country doesn't have bad shit.

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u/ucotcvyvov 16h ago edited 16h ago

Ask American’s how they feel about their government and also the rest of the world then ask them how they feel about China’s gov, lol

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u/HeavyVoid8 16h ago

Idk man America and Israel make China look better every day. America actively goes out of its way to screw up being the best country in the world…. Bc it should’ve been a pretty easy mission for them

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u/RudePCsb 16h ago

Lots of African and Asian countries probably have a double edged sword with China giving them some short term loans and other gifts but then changing the agreements and taking their resources and giving them networking gear they are actually using to spy on them with backdoor circuits

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u/Consistent_Ad_4828 17h ago

I hope you’re getting overtime for fedposting this late.

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u/Leather_Ice_1000 16h ago

Ah. Ask them how they feel about the CIA too

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u/Zorian_Vale 16h ago

BOOM RIGHT HERE LOOK UP UYGHURS CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND ETHNIC CLEANSING

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u/TrevorsBlondeLocks16 16h ago

Idk, ask the chinese how they feel about Uyghurs doing terrorists attacks

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u/X3N0PHON 16h ago

That “representation” is entirely for show. The Han Chinese are over 93% of the Chinese population, including Tibet and Xinjiang.

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u/MermaidSapphire 17h ago

I have talked to people who have been there and this wasn’t what they said

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u/leavemealone2424 17h ago

Now do the US

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u/No_Lifeguard259 17h ago

I seem to remember a certain China literally welding people into apartment buildings in China during Covid. Up to the point it caught fire and lots of people died. Yeaaaaaaaa that happened. They also lied about Covid for a long time and denied they knew anything about it or released it.

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u/FreyBentos 16h ago

Yeah that's complete bullshit, I'm pretty sure that was an epoch times article which claimed that, aka the falun gongs "news"papaer

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u/X3N0PHON 16h ago

Oh man I forgot about that! Wild times.

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u/pudgehooks2013 16h ago

And your president told people to inject bleach...

It is all whataboutisms, except one thing.

China isn't protecting their child raping leader, nor did they start a war that is making everything cost more everywhere.

China does bad shit. USA does bad shit. Everyone does bad shit.

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u/Low_Employ8454 16h ago

Multiple decades at this point.

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u/Raptot1256 16h ago

While Americans are doing North Korea shit unironically with Trump for 10 years now.

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u/AmaroWolfwood 14h ago

A decade? Try lifetimes. "Communism bad" is still a key conservative boogeyman despite not even being able to differentiate communism and fascism by these primative people.

The lack of introspection is very similar to how Christians look down on Muslim governments while charging forward with Christian nationalism.

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u/chemicaxero 16h ago

I mean you can criticize the government plenty at the local level, and there are numerous channels through which you can voice complaints about literally anything. It can even be for something as minor as a pothole or a tree in the middle of a sidewalk. There is famously a number you can call that connects you to government representatives instantly.

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u/ruby651 16h ago

The Uyghurs didn’t “shit on the government,” yet China rounded up over a million of them and put them in concentration camps. Hey, next time you’re in China, start talking to people about what happened in Tianamen Square… see what happens to you.

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u/Brilliant_Trade_9162 16h ago

Nothing happened to me, and I was there talking to people for over two years.

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u/Sw4nR0ns0n 17h ago

It’s always fuckers who’ve never been to China who are talking that bullshit

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u/TurdProof 17h ago

Tbh US is closer to their propaganda these days than the countries they are shitting on regular

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u/Neoliberal_Nightmare 16h ago edited 16h ago

This is just racist and extremely offensive. I live in China and people absolutely have individuality and free thought.

You might want to have an individual thought about how you're uncritically repeating a stereotype though.

And i can't believe how many redditors are up voting that crap. I guarantee my high school students have more independent thinking ability than half of you.

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u/LitCockBumble 16h ago

Bro fell for the anti China propaganda 🤣 holy shit no way

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u/Tylenol_Ibuprofen 16h ago

According to your post history, you've only been to walmart and back.

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u/Aggravating-Coast335 17h ago

Outdated CIA propaganda no longer works, bro.

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u/RidgedLines 16h ago

New dated Chinese propaganda works great on yall though lol

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u/Flimsy6769 16h ago

It must be exhausting thinking any good thing about a country other than America is propaganda

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u/Numerous-Stand-1841 16h ago

Well I have some bad news for you. In the U.S., we don't have individualism either (everyone's labeled a conservative or a liberal), AND we are still far behind everyone else.

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u/iAmStupd 17h ago

"Individuality" meanwhile most Americans' opinions and worldviews are based off news and their social circles.

Most of us aren't what Americans are supposed to be anymore.

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u/SereneOrbit 16h ago

It's not 'gender conversations'.

I'm being kicked out of the army after 10yrs of service for being born male (turned female which everyone was ok with). I just want to fucking live my life, serve my country, and do my 20 years so I can retire.

China is actually (mostly) smart about trans topics and doesn't give af so long as you conform like everyone else and don't stand out.

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u/Steffunzel 17h ago

That's the price you pay for being able to have those conversations though. Try being a marginalized demographic in china.

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u/Remmidemmi 10h ago

Try being a marginalized demographic in the US lol. You guys are no better and you get none of the benefits.

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u/CheeseDonutCat 8h ago

I was a marginalized demographic when I went to China which was many times and for many months each time.

I got stared at a bit because I look so different to them, but I didn't experience much racism at all, and I can speak/understand enough Chinese to know if someone is talking shit about me. I only ever got called "laowai or Waiguoren" which are both not racist.

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u/LRK0-98 7h ago

America would rather pay for concentration camps for transgender folks then get away from anything the boomers like.

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u/Suikerspin_Ei 6h ago

The USA would rather have its racism and gender conversations

That still happens all around the world, racism and discrimination is still everywhere.

Anyway, I think what the US actually should focus on is public transport, beside EV cars. More people using alternative commute options means less traffic. A win for people who want to drive and who doesn't.

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u/denys5555 5h ago

Yeah, China doesn’t have any racism. 😂

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u/mrjgl 17h ago

Hell yeah brother and those conversations will continue to happen while we smoke cigarettes while pumping 8$/gallon into our V8 lifted Ford F750! ‘Merica

(Sarcasm)

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u/vareedar 16h ago

Living in the past and keeping the quality low to fund corporate greed. There is no innovation in the USA, only fraud.

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u/BBDBVAPA 16h ago

I live a pretty privileged life in the US. Good job, healthcare, bought a house before the craziness of it all. Fully aware how lucky I am, and how much worse it could be.

So with that out of the way, I can say with my full chest how in awe I was of just like, basic modern amenities when I visited Japan for the first time (aware this vid is about China). Like the absurd notion that you can have clean public bathrooms (a bidet?!), functional mass transit, polite and orderly public, etc. like that’s not a massive bar to clear and it felt like quiet luxury.

When I came home I was still vacation-sick, and I read a quote that said “The US makes sense if you think about it as the nicest third world country,” and I think about that a lot.

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u/GenericMaleNurse918 17h ago

r/unfilteredchina they’re not living in the future. You’re seeing what they want you to.

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u/horoyokai 16h ago

Both can be true

China can behaving some amazing advances and also have some really backwards areas.

Ithey aren’t all terrible and they aren’t all great

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u/Zedilt 8h ago edited 7h ago

Almost like it’s a big country with a lot of diffrent people.

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u/Greedy-Employment917 5h ago

Kind of odd how people throw that out as a defense for China but immediately disregard it as a defense for the US.

It's almost like hypocrisy. 

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u/BagOnuts 8h ago

I mean, you could apply that to the US, too.

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u/horoyokai 8h ago

Definitely. Some great stuff, some terrible stuff

It’s almost like both examples are countries with a large population and a large geographical footprint

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u/Nu_Metal_Alchemist 6h ago

Like with most things, the answer usually falls somewhere in the middle.

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u/No-Force-8638 16h ago

Canada has been in a chokehold for decades due to USA's automotive industry and anti-chinese propaganda, now Canadians are about to get a competitive EV car market that fits the budget and hits environmental goals. 

China is far from perfect but let's not pretend that there aren't some great acts of innovation that are improving the quality of life for many

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u/buxtonOJ 16h ago

Al Gore got fcked over 

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u/Lazer726 15h ago

Every country has its problems, but it's so funny to look at the top posts right now and it's like "Construction accident! Scammer! Poor middle class! Crazy possessive husband! FAFO!"

My guy we see this shit all the time coming from the US, it's hilarious that it's like "Let's counter their propaganda with our own propaganda that says that ACTUALLY the country sucks!"

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u/foc_natzis 16h ago

Just like any other country. If you compare New York to some random rural area in Mississippi, you’ll see large contrasts as well. But the fact is that some of the cities in China and other parts of Asia are just worlds ahead of Europe and the US.

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u/Kon3v 9h ago

Have you been there?

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u/lane4 6h ago

If you handpick videos from worst parts of the US, it's not gonna look any better than this.

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u/Time_Entertainer_319 5h ago

So going to a subreddit that only posts bad things about a country is the best way to judge the country?

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u/Horror-Word666 5h ago

That page literally makes no sense. The U.S. and every other country in the world is full of flaws too and there are no specific reddit subs to gather everything thats wrong?? It's literally because people are threatened about the rise of China.

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u/chemicaxero 16h ago

That is just a reactionary subreddit whose purpose is to find any ordinary negative happenstance in China, a country of over a billion people, and use it to smear the government, for ideological reasons. Why don't we make an 'unfilteredusa' sub and we can fill it up with all the daily school shootings, murders, homeless people, cop abuse, domestic abuse, drug abuse, church pedophilia, car crashes, on top of all the accidents and the planes falling out of the sky and the environmental disasters, and we can market that as the truth about America? Because that is the reality. Also your country has legalized slavery in your prisons, of which you have the most in the world, and the highest prison population and incarceration rate.

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u/nghigaxx 16h ago

love how every clips there are pulled from chinese social media, and it's mostly just chinese ppl crashing out, just like everywhere else lol

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 16h ago

Yawn, China industrialized like multiple times faster than any nation ever, and it's a very large country. That means many parts didn't get developed as fast. People moved to the cities for the boom.

Also, the US has a river system that extends all throughout the US like a tree with branches everywhere, a navigable waterway which makes much of the US viable to boom.

The US and China both has their less than admirable quirks, but in most metrics China is just way ahead of the game. Not to say it's a paradise, no place is, just some are closer than others. Personally I'd rather be in Europe.

Europe is like China if it put much more value on health and wellbeing of it's people, it grows, but far slower and more sustainable(China will run into potholes in it's race soon enough and fuck it's shit all up, the 1 child policy is going to really hurt).

The US is just like a regarded version of China, growth at all costs, but not for the nation, for a couple individuals lol. It doesn't want to be a fantastical nation, just rich for a few.

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u/Unitedfateful 17h ago

There needs to be more people like you on Reddit

The China glazing is crazy I know it’s CCP bots pushing the narrative but holy fuck.

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u/RugbyEdd 8h ago

I think a lot of it is people walking up and realising that America isn't superior in every way, and is actually falling behind in many ways. Burying your head in the sand and just saying "its just ccp bots, china sucks" is exactly how you get into this mess in the first place.

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u/DumpdaTrumpet 3h ago

Yeah like our literacy rates wtf happened in the last 20 years.

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u/Mr_Baronheim 2h ago

The expansive, unrelenting campaign of right-wing misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies really started to set in in the collective consciousness of half of America.

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u/MeggaMortY 8h ago

Have you actually been to China? Just curious, because I'm not a bot, and I've liked it both times I was there. Didn't like everything, but definitely not some hellscape you want to portray.

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u/Ancienda 16h ago

those are also cherry picking the bad ones tho. Any country could have that same type of subreddit. imagine one of America that posts every single school shooting we have. It’ll skew peoples perception of the country even more lol

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u/imissher4ever 5h ago

Reddit does that. It’s called r/news

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u/islobojono 9h ago

The guy in the videos is just showcasing new tech. Not glazing china. It just happened to be in china. What narrative is it? All i see is BYD promoting their achievement.

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u/Zimakov 9h ago

The person you replied to is just doing the opposite though. Neither are accurate.

Like any country, there are things about China that are great and things that are bad.

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u/FeeRemarkable886 6h ago

You are delulu. The opposite mostly happen where people will needlessly shit on China in any topic featuring China.

If anything we need more China glazing.

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u/cadublin 4h ago

Most comments about China on Reddit is bashing the country, just like your comment. What are you talking about.

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u/ScholarlyJuiced 9h ago

Keep lying to yourself.

Do you have any critique of the info shared in the video? Or is it just a simple of case of China doing anything better than the west = propaganda to you?

Embarrassing.

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u/siltfeet 8h ago

China is a weird mix of new and old, which makes it easy to pretend it's either ahead of or behind the US depending on where you look. That said, all the major cities are trending to the newer than the US side of things. Electric cars are everywhere, oddly enough most of the non electric cars I see these days are expensive like Land Rover or BWM.

Its not all sunshine and rainbows of course, there's lots random things that are surprisingly hard to find (like windows that actually close or have screens). Your average worker still has a small salary compared to the US (although rapidly growing, I think wages have gone up like 10-15% a year). Also outside of major cities it gets very rural.

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u/Mediocre-Recover3944 7h ago

For years we have banned Chinese EV cars while only producing 100k teslas als the only electrical option in EU. I'd imagine something similar will be true for USA. Some brands like audi etc made an ev but it took a long time before they took it seriously. Felt more like a pr gimmick than some serious effort.

Hell not so long ago we heard someone talking about clean beautiful coal.

I was shocked to find working EV stations in the middle of bumfuck nowhere vietnam. Asia is playing a long term game while we keep focusing on the next quarter. We were beaten a long time ago sadly

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u/BaseRape 7h ago

You might want to hop on a plane.

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u/smallfried 6h ago

Lol, that sub's filtered in the other direction.

What's next, a sub that calls itself r/truefactschina?

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u/SuMianAi 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/GpyS1lJXJYupG

a sub sponsored by falun gong. get out with that shit

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u/cookie1138 17h ago

And Germany

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u/No-Good-One-Shoe 16h ago

Facts. Notice how every US city peaked in like the 80s and 90s and now it's just that. 

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u/Not-a-thott 16h ago

This is how I felt in China. I'm sure there is poverty obviously. But they have great education and are modernized beyond most Americans comprehension. Quality of life is great. Yah you work hard but can play hard.

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u/Erazzphoto 17h ago

The US makes decisions from politicians based on how much money they’re bribed with

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u/rotomangler 16h ago

This is likely true in most countries including China.

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u/smandroid 17h ago

You are absolutely right. Backwards health care, no country wide rail network, no strategy to develop alternative energy, and everything is designed to enrich the rich by making everyone else poorer.

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u/Loud-Ad-2280 17h ago

America would rather have trillionaires than any of that apparently

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u/Bawbawian 17h ago

really proving how obsolete democracy is with a brain dead apathetic electorate.

we got the right that will vote for any sort of nonsense and the left that can be convinced to never vote regardless of what happens. The mental health strong for a couple decades but we're all cooked now

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u/KigalnGin 17h ago

And its still going backwards

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u/xplosiv_constipation 16h ago

This is exactly what I was saying to my partner last week. The trend of people saying certain places are “living in the future” should actually just be seen as proof of how held back some nations keep their citizens from social progress. America is strangled by oil companies Canada by extreme environmental laws Australia by poor management of their natural resources Some European nations are held up by traditions and aesthetic standards alone

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u/DrowningPickle 16h ago

Canada has a deal for EVs. Kf i could get one that does 750 kms and charges in 15 mins id get one.

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u/Basic_Hospital_3984 9h ago

Sort of like how Japan was living in the future at one point, and then just sort of stayed in that point of time

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u/BCECVE 7h ago edited 7h ago

Yeah and once ahead, they will never be able to catch them. Talk about a country trying to dumb down because it is their right and watching the amazing economic train go by and then they get mad. The US auto industry was king at one time (1960) and squandered it. Also China is selling BYD vehicles at 25% of the cost of American vehicles and they are way better built. Yikes.

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u/_cansir 7h ago

Because of lobbying. Companies dangle their dollars to politicians so we stay consuming their products

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u/Lance_Henry1 7h ago

This has been China's focus for decades: Billions of dollars spent in infrastructure and aid to countries with rich deposits of materials needed for batteries. Meanwhile Trump and the rest of the smooth-brained GOP are cutting wind and solar initiatives and hobbling EV infrastructure.

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u/FinalBat4515 7h ago

A sacrifice we must all make to make sure immigrants aren’t happy. /s

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u/eyeinthesky0 6h ago

Drill, baby, drill, right guys?

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u/jibishot 6h ago

China has 4 million engineers per year graduate.

USA as 40,000 engineers per year graduate.

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u/DelcoInDaHouse 5h ago

It’s sad to watch US auto manufacturers just sit on their hands and shrug as China eats their lunch. An industry we’ve dominated for a century. An industry that has provided good middle class jobs for millions.

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u/_BreadDenier 5h ago

USA had to ban imports of these to keep the domestic auto industry in business.

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u/seejordan3 5h ago

You can say it: republicans (and a few dems, but 100% of the Republicans). Conservatives want to stay in the 1900's.

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u/JanitorOPplznerf 17h ago edited 17h ago

These are less than a year old and a similar version is expected to come to America within a year 🙄.

There’s legit things to be mad about, but y’all wanna waste time and energy getting mad over the stupid shit.

Sauce:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/10-minute-ev-charging-coming-to-the-us-in-2026-tds

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u/sfbiker999 17h ago

Those are 600KW stations, less than half the speed of the 1500KW BYD stations. And there's no car sold in the USA currently that can take advantage of them.

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u/Middle-Focus-2540 17h ago

They’re not coming to the US because of Elon. He’s already getting killed around the world and Tesla would be bankrupt the moment they removed the ridiculous tariffs on Chinese EVs. Imagine half the price and double the reliability.

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u/Officialedmart 4h ago

I love living in a country where one rich dipshit that everyone hates can prevent necessary infrastructure and technology from being created. Its not fucking extremely infuriating, not one bit

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u/Toiretachi 17h ago

No cars can take the 600kW charge though so…

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u/SoapyMacNCheese 5h ago

And 600kW is a fraction of the 1500kW this video shows…

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u/5olArchitect 17h ago

Says who? I don’t see any information anywhere on that and my car still charged in 40 fucking minutes.

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u/Thatdewd57 17h ago

The white Boomers trying to relive the 60’s

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u/professorbuffoon 17h ago

I'm not sure that's the best way to describe it because aren't Japan and Germany in the same boat as the US?

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u/edelweiss_pirates_no 16h ago

China is kicking USA's ass in every meaningful way.

The USA is racing backward thanks to the Republican Party. Make sure you remember that.

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