- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 104•1 month ago
We can’t let stopping climate change get in the way of capitalism!
- ed_cock ( @ed_cock@feddit.de ) 12•1 month ago
That’s protectionism, not capitalism.
- jaspersgroove ( @jaspersgroove@lemm.ee ) 24•1 month ago
Tomato, tomato. The free market is a myth, there is no part of the economy that goes without manipulation. Anytime business owners can’t directly manipulate the market themselves they bribe governments to do it on their behalf.
- Kalkaline ( @Kalkaline@leminal.space ) 18•1 month ago
That’s no true Scotsman.
- ed_cock ( @ed_cock@feddit.de ) 2•1 month ago
No, protectionism exists outside of capitalism and even somewhat goes against the idea of capitalism, especially the free market kind.
- Kalkaline ( @Kalkaline@leminal.space ) 8•1 month ago
That’s theoretical capitalism, in practice there is no free market.
- ed_cock ( @ed_cock@feddit.de ) 1•1 month ago
That’s no true Scotsman.
Bait or brain damage. Call it
- frippa ( @frippa@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 month ago
- ed_cock ( @ed_cock@feddit.de ) 1•1 month ago
'preciate it
- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•1 month ago
Ooh, good point.
- vrighter ( @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ) 50•1 month ago
these actions already admit defeat
- monobot ( @monobot@lemmy.ml ) 48•1 month ago
The rest of the world will get cheaper solar panels and EVs, that’s quite nice.
- khorak ( @khorak@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 12•1 month ago
Cheap panels are tanking European competitors, but it’s probably too late to intervene at this point. Can’t compete with work camps and cheap slave labor.
- monobot ( @monobot@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 month ago
There are parts of the world not EU and US. They would all benefit from cheap panels.
But EU and US are not really important: https://www.statista.com/statistics/668749/regional-distribution-of-solar-pv-module-manufacturing/ they account only for few percent of solar photovoltaic module production.
- Cowbee ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 48•1 month ago
Wow, does that mean we are ramping up domestic production for these? No? Oh…
- Phil_in_here ( @Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca ) 4•1 month ago
Classic Ronco politics
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English37•1 month ago
Also medical supplies, including masks, because COVID is Joever.
Edit to add: There is necessarily a lag between tariff imposition and indigenous production, and we’re left to fill that gap with our own wallets individually. Worse, the prices will almost definitely never come back down as they might in theory, because this is late-stage capitalism.
- queermunist she/her ( @queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 7•1 month ago
It’d be really funny if those raw milk drinkers started a bird flu pandemic during a medical PPE shortage 😂
- Nora ( @crazyminner@lemmy.ml ) 32•1 month ago
You want Amerikkka to lead maybe subsidize EVs as well?
Why can’t we all win? (Ide rather bus/rail and walkable cities)
- papertowels ( @papertowels@lemmy.one ) 5•1 month ago
The government does subsidize EVs.
Additionally even used EVs are subsidized.
Between federal and state tax credits, as well as utility company rebates, my folks just got over 5k back for a used Nissan leaf. They were able to trade in their old clunker, netting a profit of a few hundred dollars to upgrade to a practical used EV.
- alcoholicorn ( @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ) 31•1 month ago
For every voter who wants a habitable planet, a cheap electric car, or to catch covid less we lose, we’re gonna pick up two moderate republicans!
- NovaPrime ( @NovaPrime@lemmy.ml ) 25•1 month ago
What a bell-end. Maybe instead of tariffs the US should begin vesting in education, job training, and research into these sectors so it can compete instead of trying to hobble the competition in the domestic market. This is just protectionism by a different name
- Fidel_Cashflow ( @Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml ) 24•1 month ago
Repeatedly stomping on my collection of rakes to own the commies
- Mossy Feathers (They/Them) ( @MossyFeathers@pawb.social ) 22•1 month ago
This dude really does not want to get reelected again. I hate that he’s the only choice. What a piece of shit.
- Melkath ( @Melkath@kbin.social ) 11•1 month ago
“No” is always an option.
- Mossy Feathers (They/Them) ( @MossyFeathers@pawb.social ) 13•1 month ago
I’m not an accelerationist, so no, it’s not really an option. It’s cool that you feel like you have the ability to just say “no”, but I don’t. I have to live here, and if Trump gets elected then there is a very high chance I might find myself in a concentration camp before the end of his term, assuming he doesn’t find a way to abolish elections entirely.
So no, I don’t really have an option to just shove my thumb up my ass and refuse to vote.
Edit: Sorry about the double post, Lemmy was being weird.
- queermunist she/her ( @queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 16•1 month ago
There’s a very high chance I might find myself in a concentration camp before the end of Biden’s next term.
All that’s needed is for my red state to declare being trans to be a sex crime, the Supreme Court to decide 5-4 that it’s constitutional, and then I’m off to a farm. Biden and his supporters would do literally nothing and just use my internment in a camp as a fundraising pitch.
- Empathy [he/him] ( @Empathy@beehaw.org ) 1•1 month ago
If you are arguing against voting, then I’d like to know: do you think your chances are better if Trump wins, if Biden wins, or do you believe they are indistinguishable? I’m having trouble understanding this.
- queermunist she/her ( @queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 month ago
I don’t think my chances are good under either President, but I also think Democrats are more likely to fight back if Trump wins. Trump saw the largest protest movement in American history. If the trans concentration camps happen under him then people will actually fight back. If they happen under Biden then people will just be told to vote harder next time so we can close the concentration camps! 🤮
- rjthyen ( @rjthyen@lemm.ee ) 4•1 month ago
Always have to vote for the furthest left that has a chance to win and hope enough others follow suit. Our system sucks, but the biggest thing holding us back is how far right the country currently is. Even though depressing, your attitude is currently our best shot and I appreciate that you’re one of the seemingly few on this platform willing to voice it.
- ColeSloth ( @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ) 18•1 month ago
No one in the US will dive into major production of such things without a more guaranteed long term tariff. Not something that may go away within 5 years time. Also, there isn’t a snowballs chance in hell the US will be a world leader in solar production. We might dominate the US market.
- fmstrat ( @fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ) 16•1 month ago
Steel I get. That’s an environmental issue since US creation is way more carbon friendly. However the rest makes no sense without an announcement in domestic investment that is pulled from currently used non-environmental budgets.
- aStonedSanta ( @aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ) 15•1 month ago
Can someone explain to me how tariffs help us? Couldn’t I buy a Chinese EV cheaper if there were no tariffs.?
- LeLachs ( @LeLachs@lemmy.ml ) 21•1 month ago
Correct. If there were no tariffs, you could buy a chinese EV for cheap. In this case for so cheap that the domestic US/Non-Chinese market cannot compete. So in order to protect these markets, the product needs to be made artificially more expensive with tariffs. This way, the domestic markets have a chance of competing.
However, this also isolates the country and provokes retaliation from the other side. This usually results in both sides sabotaging their trade relations with each other (for ex. with tariffs) which is called a trade war.
- monobot ( @monobot@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 month ago
I would be surprised if China cares too much, there is the rest of the world that needs small cheap EVs and solar panels. But they must do something as response, that’s diplomacy.
I also don’t see the problem to put tariffs to protect domestic products, sometimes it is necessar, but prohibiting completely is not cool.
- Melkath ( @Melkath@kbin.social ) 13•1 month ago
It doesn’t help you.
It helps Elon.
- aStonedSanta ( @aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ) 4•1 month ago
Yeah. That was my biggest gripe actually 😆🫠
- HopFlop ( @HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•1 month ago
Yeah but they dont want you to buy Chinese EVs, this essentially pushes non-chinese EVs (so US-made or ones from Europe)
- Sam_Bass ( @Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml ) 12•1 month ago
If hes going to do that he should light a fire under the domestics asses to get our own evs up to snuff. And market competitive. None of that whining how it cannot be done either
- JokeDeity ( @JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) 10•1 month ago
That’s… That’s not how any of this works.