I would argue axels came first, and the wheel is a derivative. See the likely methods accepted by (non ancient alien) archeologists for paleolithic to bronze age wonders made from stone; they used logs on the ground as rollers, essentially an axel, it wouldn’t take much of a leap to carve out the majority of those logs to lighten the load, creating a fixed wheel axel, which just needs a semipermanent but smooth rolling attach point to a vehicle or tool to be even more useful.

With enough grease any old stick can be an axle for a while, the wheel is the hard part.

You quite literally don’t need that, you just need both large options to fail obviously, as they are. People will seek out alternatives and there will be enough that aren’t disillusioned with electoralism that go for that option.

You cant organize on a large scale in the US, you get assassinated if you survive the character assassination.

For example, I bet you still think stein is a Russian spy or spoiler candidate.

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.

I’m doing the opposite. The fascist us has always excluded voters and its vote collecting and counting system is inherently insecure. Hell poll intimidation has been such a huge issue historically there are laws against it that are plainly ignored in red states.

The US, by no possible definition, does not have free nor fair elections. It has always been the worst implementation of democracy, oligarchy.

Europe would be the worst pick for Harris. Maybe the Philippines or other thinly disguised police state.

Exactly the opposite of reality. FPTP does not preclude third parties from winning, hence the existence of the republican party. It does mean you have to vote your principles and not strategically vote. If everyone voted for the party that most closely aligned with their principles, neither the Dems or repubs would ever wing the presidency and would never hold a majority in any Congress at any level.

The US has never had free nor fair elections.

Harris is guaranteed to lose 2028 if she is somehow the dem nominee instead of the republican nominee. There aren’t enough right wingers willing to abandon the name republican to vote for her.

One she already lost once. And was given the role without a vote the second time.

Wrong wording, graphic novel is what I meant, the best manhuas and mangas are as good as the best western and south American style comics. I was trying to lump them all together in one phrase and forgot visual novels were a thing.

All three are 90% trash, 8% good for wasting braincells and 2% among the best in the format of graphic novel.

That being said the manhua style of vertical scrolling to read is better than any other format for vertical screen devices. After getting used to it (and getting a reader than can cache fast enough to keep up) reading manga and ebooks just feels incredibly clunky and unintuitive.

That being said the monetary schemes for manhua/hwa are sometimes ridiculously predatory. If you want to read ethically you better have some serious money, especially for longer series with shorter chapters.

Let’s say Nigeria signed a predatory loan offered by the US to develop infrastructure. The terms of this loan is that they must pay $xxx USD per year until the loan is paid off with xx% interest. The contract will explicitly state they cannot pay in resources or other currency besides USD (and related bonds) in order to create dependence.

China could offer a loan that gives Nigeria Treasury bonds equal to their total loan to the US, allowing them to pay off their loan to the US in exchange for less total debt to china.

This would change the debtor, but also usually the terms so Africa can now pay the debt however they choose, rather than a specific currency.

Or, more simply, Bob loans Jim twenty Bobbucks and only wants Bobbucks back in the future. Chen has twenty Bobbucks and want Jim’s help in the future, so Chen gives Jim the Bobbucks in exchange for a favor or some moneyary debt that isn’t Bobbucks. Solving the issue.

Africa has borrowed from everyone. But mostly from the US and EU in the form of USD, usually in contracts that require them to pay back in USD. With the belt and road initiative china added to Africa’s loans with much better terms. China could offer additional loans at pennies on the dollar in exchange for the us Treasury bonds, which Africa could use to pay off its loans to the US and EU.

This would effectively shift dozens of countries away from the dollar permanently, while being the single largest anti colonial action in history, while giving china pretty extensive mineral rights across Africa.

Everyone wins in this scenario long term except the US and EU; and china is only hurt in the short term by underselling their us bonds.

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.