Buy from the owner, not a dealership. Plenty of people selling beaters on Craigslist and Facebook marketplace.

What hairs? I don’t think I’m splitting any hairs, or getting anywhere close.

When I was a teenager, yeah. Came out more conservative.

I don’t this will lead anywhere productive, but alright, first let’s get our terms straight. Racism is prejudice based on race or discrimination based on that prejudice. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism

Right now, there’s this out-group bias. I’m not saying it’s all lefties, but some, even in the government, which makes it systemic. For example, the UK Grooming Scandal, or how in America, illegal immigrants in NYC get housing for free when Americans don’t. (I would very much prefer it the other way around, Americans got housed for free, (Or no one at all, because the government is always corrupt, and they’ll just use it an excuse to funnel taxpayer money to landlords)). Hell, there’s lefties who think we shouldn’t deport illegal immigrants! Even after they commit a crime other than illegally immigrating! For more examples, take a gander at the scholarships available, how many are minority specific? Plenty. How many are majority specific? None. How about homeless shelters? How many are women specific? Plenty (Which is a good thing). How many are male specific? Few. (Which is a bad thing) Hell, the entire saga of Earl Silverman and the first domestic violence shelter for men in Canada is heartbreaking.

I can go on, but it gets tiresome quickly. All of it is pretty racist.

For the second bit, the whole “not helping” bit.

What do you think happens when you send aid to 3rd world countries? Especially on going aid? When you send shirts, those shirts devastate the local textile industry. When you send food, it hurts the farms. Yeah, sure, you could subsidize those local industries, but that quickly spirals out of control. Which factories get funds? How much are the local warlords getting out of it? That sort of thing. If you aren’t fully funding everything for an indefinite period of time, then you’re hurting them.

That’s not to say don’t help in an earthquake or other natural disaster, but it’s gotta be a light touch. Help them back on their feet and then let them go on their way.

I know right? Especially when the other guy is convinced he’s not being racist and he’s helping the unfortunate, like most lefties.

I’m conservative, but I’ve never seen it happen in either direction. Internet arguments are more about the audience than the tankie you’re arguing against.

You know, name calling doesn’t work on me.

Last I checked, China was a country. I think I won whatever shitty argument this was

Taiwan is independent, and they have a lot of chip fabs. I think you have an inflated view of Chinese industry, must be all the lead in their paint.

No good reason except basic pattern recognition.

So what? China has slaves galore! A veritable slave emporium! A slave for every man woman and child. That is, if women had rights in China.

I sincerely doubt that. And last I checked, most chip fabs were not in China. There’s a lot in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. And there’s plenty in damn near every western country. Even the Netherlands has a few.

You need to realize that countries other than China have industry.

Yeah, like slaves! America is so bad with slaves, we gave it up 150 years ago! But China, China is rolling the slaves! China perfected slavery!

My phone was made in Vietnam. And last I checked, Taiwan is not part of China.

You’re right. If I don’t buy cheap shit, I won’t get cheap shit. And since “made in China” is a byword for cheap shit, I try to avoid Chinese products.

My home was made in America. My car was assembled in America, and afaik, most of the parts came from Mexico and Japan. My microwave is Japanese. My shirt is from Taiwan. My computer is made from a ton of chips, Taiwan chip fabs. My tools are all made in America. I can go on.

Very little of what I have was made in China. Because China makes “cheap shit”. Your words, not mine.

They’ve earned their reputation.

Well yeah, or one managed it, and the others are just copying the size. It’s happened time and time again, how is this any different)

Sounds like a typical scam

Likes lgbtq, doesn’t like spending money.

Amazon getting hurt? Hell yeah!