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  • You couldn’t even refute those idiotic points properly.

    My brother in Christ, they invented paper, fireworks, and the compass.

    True. And irrelevant.

    Because they developed more efficient engineering techniques and more advanced methods of industrial scale production. In the same way Japan ate the American auto industry’s lunch during the 80s and 90s by investing heavily in industry and education, China is flooding the zone with talented professionals and capital improvement projects.

    And because the Chinese government is heavily subsidizing their auto industry in order to gain market share works wide. Pros for us: if we can buy these cars, the Chinese government is essentially subsidizing them for our consumers. Cons for us: without equivalent subsidies domestic car companies can’t possibly compete. There are genuine issues of trade fairness in play here.

    The Chinese middle class is the largest in the world.

    Relevant only if the Chinese middle class is who is working in those car factories. Is that the case?

    I’m not even saying the tarrifs are good or bad. If they’re explicitly time boxed and our governments are able to stick to that deal, then they could be good. But in general tarrifs on EVs during a climate crisis driven by carbon emissions is explicitly counterproductive.









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    24 days ago

    This is vibes-based. The DNC will not cease support for Israel because the US State needs it for its Imperialist ambitions.

    They can be made to cease unconditional support for Israel which is the only reason Israel has no incentive to work for peace.

    Why do you believe organizing and building outside pressure has zero chance of success?

    Probably because you and you guys have never provided a plausible possibility for how that would happen?

    Why do you think the DNC will magically work against their material interests?

    Unconditional support for Israel can be made to be against the DNC’s interests. But you have no interest in that. You just make noise.


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    25 days ago

    Moral implications is actually the only outcome of voting in the US. BTW , when the situation in Gaza actually gets better, remember that this genocide was directly facilitated by people like you.

    The only productive thing you’ve done is prove the opposite of that. You did by accident, but you did it.


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    25 days ago

    There is significant anti-genocide faction within the democratic party that is trying to change things from within. There is nothing like that within the GOP. The only way to stop this (and the broader unconditional support of Israel) is through the democratic party. However small you think the chances of success of that strategy, leftists offer literally zero alternative paths to this outcome that have any chance of success.


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    25 days ago

    It’s incredible that I had to chew this up and serve it on the platter before you could wrap your head around my point

    Have you tried actually writing well?

    You’re right that there is no solution to the problem in Gaza because it turns out that Americans are perfectly fine to let genocide continue and will do nothing about it. Glad we’re on the same page.

    Cool thanks for proving that voting doesn’t have any moral implications on the situation in Gaza at all, so you all your noise can be safely ignored. BTW , when the situation in Gaza actually gets better, remember that you did absolutely nothing of any consequence.




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    26 days ago

    Yes, thanks for finally making a coherent point. You care deeply about internal US politics almost to the exclusion of all else. Your comments about “not caring about US internal politics” was transparently bullshit, and you have absolutely no solution to solve any problem, let alone the plight of Gaza. Glad we’re on the same page.