A vote for Jill Stein, Cornel West, Oliver Chase, or not voting, is a vote for Trump. Palestinian lives don’t matter to Trump, nor do they really matter to Harris; however in general, Harris will be better for Americans than Trump, so vote for Harris.
A vote for Jill Stein, Cornel West, Oliver Chase, or not voting, is a vote for Trump.
Just as a vote for Nader was a vote for Bush.
Imagine if Nader didn’t run. Imagine there was no Green Party candidate for US President.
Gore would have probably won, and America would have been the better for it. Probably no Iraq war, maybe not even a 911. As a result Iran probably wouldn’t be as strong, and Putin probably would have less to legitimately oppose about the US, and would himself be seen as less legitimate—indeed Ukraine might still be whole today.
A new Green deal would probably be in full swing.
Granted, Harris doesn’t really care about Palestinians, and some elements of the Democratic party care even less; but Trump cares even less than Harris, and what he will do to the US will be worse.
So while Israel massacres civilians and steals more land, at least under Harris American women would still more easily get abortions, we will have fewer TGs committing suicide (maybe), and health care will be a little more universal.
Also with the 100% tariff on Chinese EVs, the Big 3 will be able to better produce good inexpensive cars (as they’ve been at least somewhat intending these past several decades), and fascism will have less of a hold on the US.
Therefore: vote for Harris.
If you are a progressive: vote for Harris.
If you are an environmentalist: vote for Harris.
If you are a libertarian: vote for Harris.
If you support voting reforms such as proportional representation, rank balloting, the abolition of the Electoral College, and/or more political diversity: vote for Harris.
If you are nauseated at the idea of voting for Harris: take a barf bag with you while you vote for Harris.
If you are a Palestinian-American who has a relative who was injured, maimed, or even murdered, in Gaza, you should still vote for Harris, because again, Trump doesn’t care about them either, but at least you, as an American citizen, will get a better deal Harris than under Trump.
(I’m not entirely sure if I agree with all the above, but I find it hard to refute.)
the EV point from OP is flawed.
tldr: Auto tariffs will only help the big three American car manufacturers if their policy is to match Chinese EV production, but the big three have apparently decided to focus on traditional profit programs exclusive to producing EVS.
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The EV paragraph from the post is nonsensical. their faith in the “Big 3” is misplaced and the implied understanding of auto manufacturing is coming from pride or historical intuition instead of current and recent historical events.
China is a factory economy that has switched in large part to manufacturing EVs and has invested more in EVs conforming to western auto regulations than western companies have.
The West has been asking china to produce car parts for 30 years, and China can do that at a much lower cost then anyone else can, even with 100% tariffs.
during the influx of articles about Chinese EV’s flooding the market before tariffs were enacted, I regularly wrote that you would have to have a 100% tariff for Western countries to even get close to Chinese EV prices, but you need 200% tariffs Stern manufacturers to match Chinese mass-market EVS.
It’s still cheaper to buy a Chinese EVs at 100% tariffs than buy a Western EV of comparable quality, politicians are trying to buy Auto manufacturers a few years to catch up with the auto manufacturing processes in China.
problem is, they appear to just assume Western Auto manufacturers will catch up instead of focusing production on catching up to Chinese production capacity.
the big three need more than a few years to catch up with the production capacity of a factory economy that’s been running at full capacity for over 3 decades.
they’ve already had those few years, and have flip-flopped on whether or not EVs are the way forward despite the obvious technological and production advantages.
China has kept their eye on the ball and has swept ahead of EV competition as a result.
each of the big three have decided to focus on their own company instead, so each individual American car company is traditionally flailing against a modern nationally subsidized Chinese EV industry.
aptera is the only company i know of that could take China on by themselves because they’ve refined a new type of mass-market EV for cheaper, but initial funding is necessary, and no other car manufacturer wants aptera to get that funding because then Tesla and everybody else’s ass is grass(by which I mean they would lose a couple million dollars a year to a superior product, but like an iPhone, many people would persist in choosing Tesla simply because of the brand).
Big American companies don’t normally take that kind of “risk”(fair competition) and do not inherently value the benefit of a level playing field.
the big three are very consistently focused on personal profit via conservative production policy instead of catching up to the production capacity of quality EVs that China is capable of and invested in, so the big three are are losing that fight on every front.