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  • Hard disagree, as again, the republican party exists. It was a third party.

    Practically no one votes strategically. The vast majority of voters vote the same as their parents and/or peers. The extreme minority of voters that care about issues vote for whatever party of the two that suits them best at the time.

    But bigger than all these groups are the eligible voters that think nothing will change because people like you tell them they only have two options, so they don’t vote.

    Because neither option is good. There is Nazi, and there is the group that appoints nazis. Both exist solely for their own power and wealth. Neither help people until the riots get too violent. So why vote. Why care?

    So either we introduce a third party or more, and maybe give some hope, or we let the uniparty continue to win and we all have to survive a balkanized US when it collapses.






  • For the us; it would end the US economy overnight. There isn’t a product manufactured in the US or service done in the US that does not involve something from china. Even at ridiculously high tariff prices there’s simply no alternative infrastructure for replacing those imports. Even the trump regime are slaves to capital given that’s the only thing backing the legitimacy of the US.

    For china; the only thing imported from the US are luxury/private sector items. It genuinely does not affect the core industries (60% of Chinas gdp is in the public sector) of china, and with China’s welfare system, private industries can fail without the employees ever becoming homeless or starving. There simply isn’t a reason to go that far and needlessly escalate.

    Tl;Dr nothing the US can do economically can realistically hurt china, just small parts of its private sector. China, however could cripple the US since the US allowed its companies to offload so much core industrial work to china. None of the actual adults in the US will allow trump to piss off china to the point of cutting off trade entirely, and china isn’t petty.