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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • Islam in general. What is it with you people being apologists for Islam but not other religions? Fuck all religion and just because the oppression of women in Islam is normalized doesn’t mean it’s suddenly become a choice for women to wear hijab. It’s more complex than that. Tired of this fucking nonsense on lemmy.





  • I agree but aave was partly formed due to systemic oppression, isolation and restricted access to education so that’s where I was coming from. It feels a little like flattery.

    Also I’m not American so spare me the insinuation that I’m an ignorant racist because I don’t fit your definition of being an open minded liberal.









  • I mean, first of all, you misunderstood my comment. I meant that in a car with the same level of technology, safety, and power, the price is a lot more attractive for any consumer to buy Chinese. You’re falling into the same trap that I described assuming that the Chinese vehicles are of a lower quality on average which is completely not the case anymore. Not in technology, not in safety, not even in design in the most recent models.

    Second, using the lowest bar for the price of a vehicle is a weird way to gauge world interest in vehicles. There have always been dirt cheap cars with next to no features other than an engine, produced in India or Japan for certain markets. I’m not talking about those in general. For example Chinese automobiles are absolutely dominating the markets in regions like UAE, Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar where the target consumer wouldn’t think twice about paying for a Bentley or any European marque. So I’m not sure what your Walmart analogy was meant to achieve but it falls flat. Trust me I’m the last person that thinks any of these vehicles should be sold in the US, that would decimate our auto industry.

    But objectively, if I lived somewhere where the vehicles that were available in the middle east were sold, I wouldn’t think twice about getting a luxurious powerful car for the price of a Camry in the states.