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The BYD CEO (whoever that is) is a lot less in your face about their support for that. Let's face it, it's easy to ignore this stuff if it happens quietly. Tes
by mcv 1y ago
The BYD CEO (whoever that is) is a lot less in your face about their support for that.
Let's face it, it's easy to ignore this stuff if it happens quietly. Tesla would probably have been fine if Musk had quietly financed Musk. He's being too public and blatant about it. Most consumers don't actually care that much until you rub their faces in it. Which Musk does.
It would absolutely be better if consumers were more aware of the hidden atrocities behind the products they buy. I try to avoid Chinese products, don't buy from Amazon, I've got a Fairphone, am picky about where my chocolate comes from, and avoid Chiquita, Nestle and brands like that. But I'm a tiny minority. We do need more awareness about this sort of thing.
But even with all the awareness that Musk is creating about his own fascism, there are still people buying his cars.
- msgodel 1y agoSo it's ok as long as it's quiet?
- archagon 1y agoAs far as I can tell, the BYD CEO is not actively trying to influence global politics to make life miserable for me and my friends.
- msgodel 1y agoNearly every American tech company actively started going after "White people" (which is just another name for Europeans) both with political PR and with actual actions and that didn't seem to effect their European sales so that's probably not it.
- archagon 1y agoOccam's razor: your premise is false. Nobody feels aggrieved by these purported actions except far-right pundits and those trapped in their propaganda web. (And I say this as a white person.) In contrast, Musk said that people I care about were part of the "parasite class" and chuckled about cutting their benefits. Fuck that.
- msgodel 1y agoHow is that Occam's razor? Also that's a little bold of you to speak for rest of us that way.
- mcv 1y agoWhat do you mean by "go after white people"? They go after everybody. American tech companies plaster every corner of the internet with whatever they're trying to sell or own. And if you want to boycott them, I'm all for that. I don't buy from Amazon or Microsoft either. There are alternatives to Google. It's true that they've made enormous inroads into Europe in recent years, but now that they all seem to support America's increasing turn towards fascism, you will also see Europe slowly move away from them. But abandoning the cloud infrastructure that you just invested millions in, is a lot harder than buying a different car, so the change is slower.
- ben_w 1y ago"Ok" is the wrong word for this. Put it this way: do you yourself boycott companies, specifically because of those companies supporting things you don't know they support?
- mcv 1y agoYou're missing the point here. It's not okay, it's less known, as long as it's quiet. Musk is going out of his way to generate a lot of bad PR for himself. Do you really expect that to have no effect?
- dzhiurgis 1y agoBYD CEO is literally communist party member. > Tesla would probably have been fine if Musk had quietly financed Musk :D Did you read what was the plan for their first car?
- abenga 1y ago> literally communist party member. It's not the 50s any more Mr McCarthy. That is not in itself necessarily a bad thing.