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Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by CapitalistCartr on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:04PM (#46458573)
I could make a good case for the United States fitting that description, especially the bits about trade and agression.
Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by echelon on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:13PM (#46458673)
The US is complex antihero type.

While it definitely attacks threats and has perpetrated plenty of unjust deeds, it also is responsible for the food security of much of the world. It has lifted more people out of poverty than any other party. It has brought poor nations to the point of industrialization.

The US has been a far greater force for good in the world than evil.

The leadership changes frequently, so it's hard to point to any single responsible party. It's democratic, so its institutions are subject to scrutiny. The free press sheds light on corruption and rule breaking.

Despite changing immigration narratives, the US has been an early and strong proponent of multiculturalism and welcoming people.

With declining US hegemony, the world is likely to become a much more dangerous place. We'll see more economic strife, more war, higher costs, greater tensions.

Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by newyankee on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:30PM (#46458872)
but at least we will have alternative energy sources in Solar, wind, batteries and probably a Nuclear renaissance which might reduce the incentives on fight for Oil & Gas even if the fights move to other resources
Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by echelon on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:40PM (#46458969)
> fights move to other resources

Food (eg. protein, fisheries, etc.), water (eg. dams), materials (eg. rare earths), land, strategic geography, trade, labor, security, political upheaval, power struggles, sectarian violence, terrorism, religion, historical claims, climate, etc. etc. etc.

Under a single global order, disagreements were normally put aside to participate in global trade. As we begin to move to distributed trading blocs and factions, many of these disagreements will boil over. Parties won't step up to stop them.

Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by eru on Thursday January 01, 2026 @09:46PM (#46460835)
China is doing really well in solar. Both domestically and globally, because they are providing cheap solar panels to the rest of the world. (Well, apart from those idiots with tariffs to 'protect' them from green energy.)
Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by nutjob2 on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:12PM (#46458657)
The inevitable whataboutism.

Firstly it's not relevant to a discussion about China's behavior.

Yes the US under Trump has become increasingly authoritarian, but besides being not as oppressive as China, the US remains a democracy and there is a chance to vote bad people out of the White House and more importantly reverse the direction of the country.

Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by refurb on Thursday January 01, 2026 @08:37PM (#46460404)
No, you could make a weak case for the US doing that by using vague definitions and a lot of handwaving.

The Chinese government does this a lot.

Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by fragmede on Friday January 02, 2026 @08:36AM (#46464599)
The number of black Americans in prison over weed for decades is not a weak case.
Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by refurb on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:19PM (#46472756)
Putting people in prison for weed, something China does as well, is not the same as imprisoning people for blog posts (something China does the US doesn't).
Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by fragmede on Saturday January 03, 2026 @06:21AM (#46475345)
The US is sending off-colored people who say wrong things online without the right paperwork to camps.

really doesn't seem to be as stark a difference as there once was.