surph_ninja @ surph_ninja @lemmy.world

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The problem is, they will leave the moment you cut off the incentive. So it becomes a permanent subsidy.

Your positions do not seem to be supported by the facts. I don’t understand how you have maintained this perspective of interruptions and shipping affecting the US more than China. That certainly wasn’t the case during the pandemic.

And now with the tariff threats that we’re seeing, aerospace and military manufacturers are saying there are certain components they simply can’t manufacture here without importing from China. If tariffs are impeding that in anyway, I don’t see how they would survive a complete cut off. Especially without the raw resources we get from China, we couldn’t even set up independent manufacturing here if we wanted to.

We’ve been trying the incentive method for decades now. It hasn’t worked.

I agree that requiring certain industries to be based domestically is the best route, but both the GOP & Dems opposed that type of planned economy. They prefer to manipulate market influences to incentivize what they want, rather than direct regulation.

If you don’t tariff everyone, how does that bring manufacturing back? They’ll just move to the next cheapest country, and then you’re playing whack-a-mole.

The difference is China is expanding their trade partnerships across Asia and Africa. They can sell to someone else. I don’t know how we survive a sudden cut off from the global manufacturing base.

But this issue predates Trump. Trump is starting a trade war, but Biden was escalating militarily with China. Both seem like very, very bad ideas.

So you believe China will continue to trade with the US during a hot war over Taiwan?

He declared his fealty to Israel and his support for the genocide during his “filibuster.”

I had my main and a business account permabanned during the election, after Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot. I said I didn’t really care or have any empathy, because Liz is a warmonger who’s called for violence against millions of people.

I didn’t say I agreed, and I didn’t say someone should do it. I simply said I didn’t care that she felt threatened by him. Permabanned.

Capitalism cannot continue to exist without it begging for socialist bailouts.

Just proves that socialism is superior. It can even float a shit system like capitalism as it continues to fail.

He made a loyalty pledge to Israel during this performance, and defended the genocide. I don’t want him to follow through.

If you are a human being living under the control of a government, the government is absolutely a threat to you.

It was a loyalty pledge. He put on this performance to get a shot at a leadership position, and he wanted to make it clear to the aipac lobby which side he was on.

No, how is this a win as a result of this “filibuster?”

Because we have legalized bribery.

Plus certbot and acme easily auto renew the certs.

If it’s not nothing, then show me the win. Show me what we gained.

He praised Israel and defended the genocide in this very same filibuster.

What did he resist? There wasn’t a bill he was filibustering. This was a performance.

Stop being satisfied with performance.

He also took the time to praise Israel and defend the genocide during his filibuster.

Fuck right off.