One last thing(, that’s linked to EVs), have you ever heard of the “three old things” ? I discovered that ‘a few months’/‘several weeks’ ago, and i’m still thinking about it from time to time : https://youtu.be/6E89qUXTX-k?t=2149

(https://files.catbox.moe/b1kfo4.mp4 if the video player doesn’t work)

It’s not as official as the five year plan, but it’s confirmed here or there :

From aspirations to own watches, bicycles and sewing machines (the “older three things”) of the late 1970s, to the color televisions, refrigerators and washing machines (the “old three things”) of the late 1980s, to the stereos, air conditioners and mobile phones (the “new three things”) of the late 1990s, and to the computers, pianos and automobiles (the “newer three things”) of today

As for the next five-year plan(, with brain-computer interfaces) :

Without China, it’d be ingrained in all of us that socialism can never work, and has failed everytime it was tried, probably for centuries/ever. Just another one of these lies. So many conditions had to be reunited for being given one last chance after 1991(, explosive growth that no country ever went through, being “busy” in the Middle-East, a successful chinese strategy, …)

It’s ironic that our (religious )values point out that a society should be judged by how it treats the poorest/weakest/l(e)ast of us, but we’ll be anti-socialist with an “exploit or be exploited” mindset.

Anyway 🤷

Fair, here’s a clearer source : https://bydukmedia.com/en/about.html

I think you’ll hear more of it in the future, it’s kinda like a “new” Huawei.
I was surprised to spot a BYD dealership in the south of Nantes in France, that’s when the numbers start feeling real.


https://www.byd.com/eu/find-store

If you live in the US, protectionnism may prevent you from seeing a BYD car dealership. A.f.a.i.k. there’s none, perhaps because there’s a 100% tariff on chinese EVs, and/or for other reasons(, security is just another one of these lies we like to tell our citizens).

Canada also had a 100% tariff rate until a few weeks ago, they’ll now admit 49.000 vehicles each year at a 6.1% tariff rate.

In the EU, states put a 20-30% tariff(, a.f.a.i.k. their reasons are the existence of chinese subventions, suddenly free trade doesn’t benefit the states practicing it because it destroys the local companies, anyway…)

It gives hope 👍

The problem always was that China didn’t censor Tiktok.

State surveillance begins when protecting privacy is treated as a suspect act.
Preventing crimes apparently necessitates to forbid any resistance to surveillance.
So much for France/Europe being a defender of (digital )rights.

Hi,
Lemmygrad seems to be down, so i’m answering you with my alt.
I’ve only upvoted your comment with two accounts, but it’d deserve that i use my other alts as well, thanks a million times for taking the time to correct me, now i feel ashamed that i never took the time to document myself before posting my comment.
I’ve read about that a few times by people who presented it as astroturfing(, from what i’ve quickly read), and it didn’t cross my mind that it could be something else, in that case some kind of ~one-time sponsorship to selected influencers.
Now the attention it got makes more sense, i should have realized it myself, thanks again frankly !!

(I wonder how many things that appear even more nonsensical simply come from my miscomprehension, would be nice. I’ll keep the comment above but next time i’ll take a few minutes to read what it’s about before posting)

They’ve accepted the Witkoff plan since May, now they’ve been saying since the end of August that they’re ready to leave the power to independent technocrats, what more could they do ?
They’d probably accept demilitarization as well with enough security guarantees. And then, what more could Israel ask ?

If you avoid the easy answer of “i wouldn’t attempt to empty the Gaza Strip of their inhabitants”, then how would you empty the Gaza Strip ?