-supreme court fash speedrun any% begins in earnest
-biden does his best cryptkeeper impression in the debate, the lyin' lamestream media balks hard, swing state polls start leaking badly
-reads from post Trump calls for jailing and "televised military tribunals" of "Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris, Mr. Pence, Mr. Schumer, Mr. McConnell and Nancy Pelosi"
-xi presses the rare earth resources socialism button, presumably (or at least hopefully) in prep for pressing the ALL earth resources socialism button
-heritage foundation president does a public threat of violence at the left, increasing his chances of being roadkilled by a significant factor (fingers crossed)
-the west sez: zelensky your country is three embodied forms of corruption in a trenchcoat, yea we are gonna need you to take off that "i fought a losing war of attrition and all i got was a spot in NATO" tshirt you keep wearing on tv
-dr disrespect dropped by subway (this isn't momentous it's just hilarious LMAO)
-steam summer sale
-the pho place near me fixed their broth (less cinnamon 
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I'm not a :vote: guy, but I think every Prez election year will be a flashpoint. it's when the tensions come closest to tearing the illusion of those who want to believe in electoral reform. 2020 had police stations on fire and people getting nabbed off the streets in unmarked vans while a global pandemic raged.
if Biden had looked even remotely presentable at the debate, few on team blue would be looking at the present situation critically, wondering, if beating trump is so important, why are "we" running a guy who is about to code? wondering who made this decision and why there is no alternative.
all of the other injustices could be explained away by pushing "trump would be worse" and funneling the tensions into the electoral system. but now what could have been characterized as an "imperfect" system is seeming "fundamentally fucked and incapable of reform".
I think we will get these crescendos every 4 years until elections are suspended.
The DNC in Chicago this year is gonna be fucking crazy, and I could absolutely see a situation where a peaceful protestor gets murdered by a cop and shit pops off across the country
History rhymes. Are they gonna get Sorkin to pen another movie afterwards?
I agree with this. I think we'll know better after the election, not so much because of cheeto or cryptkeeper, but just because what comes after will be what we settle into for at least the foreseeable future.
It does seem like the summer before a presidential election is now the designated "Cool Zone".
The contradiction I'm failing to understand is why these elections in the West are flashpoints... like, the bourgeoisie have total domination, especially since there's no real leftist opposition anywhere in the West™. Why on earth create tensions with people that agree with you on 99.99% how to rule?
I get it to some degree, there's propaganda bubbles surrounding the type of liberalism you gravitate towards based on your life experience, but fundamentally those ideologies are 100% compatible with each other. It's as if when the cold war ended, liberal "democracy" dropped all pretense of sanity.
For a very long time now, the presidential elections haven't been flashpoints for exactly the reason you describe. But since the 2000 elections, the contradictions have progressively ramped up, probably because material conditions have deteriorated and the bourgeoise are not omnipotent.
Ideological infighting between bourgeoisie factions. The Civil War never ended, it simply entered a cold state after the assassination of Lincoln and with him the assassination of reconstruction. Andrew Johnson's alliance with southern capital meant none of the financial stake holders we're held accountable and land was never redistributed to the free slaves.
So the slaves of the south were emancipated into the open arms of the southern capitalist who replaced chattel slavery with wage slavery.
The emancipation process never ended, and the reimplementation of slavery also never ended. Over the decades new factions have risen and been incorporated into the struggle, mainly Evangelicals, since they represent such a large base for the conservative axis. Their incorporation has caused the development of the conservative solutions for the issue of labor reproduction, namely in the antiabortion movement.
With conservative victories over the last 20 years, they have positioned themselves ever closer to winning this cold war. This has been a war of ideology, attempting to solve the contradictions of capitalism from different positions. The problem progressives have however is that appropriating leftist positions doesn't solve the issues of capitalism, it erodes capitalism. Their dabbling in populism has given the electorate a taste for it. When progressives fail to deliver on their populism however, it weakens their voting base, solves none of the issues of capitalism, and requires them to lean right for real solutions.
This fragmented position leaves the collective bourgeois unable to deal with external conflict. Their handling of Ukraine and Israel can be viewed as an extension of this internal conflict.
At some point one of these positions within the ruling class has to win out over the other. Resulting in either Christian Fascism, or a kind of "National Socialism" rooted in a more traditional form of Fascism.
I suppose because the contradictions are inevitable within such an economic system. Capitalists are loyal to nothing. They have no credo. They clearly have no restraint. If these economic relations are in place, humans will inevitably do terrible things to each other to exploit such a system.
They didn't have morals before. They had competition (from a number of communist revolutionary states). That's what kept them in line. That's why they had a pretense.
No competition - no need to pretend you're sane... I mean, I guess false consciousness is so prevalent now that these people all believe themselves to be sane. These sane people are created by rampant capitalism, and act in the way I described in my first paragraph.
I'm completely unprepared for decade to happen in weeks, I barely function day-to-day
These are the weeks where months happen.
Interesting times, but it can get a lot more interesting than this.
I'm wondering if the burgerland bourgeoisie are happy to sacrifice the country to fascism now. Or is this just the natural progression of late capitalism, to decay into fascism or fascism to be deployed against a growing left.
Fascism is always present in capitalism. It's a rot that starts at the extremities and works its way inward as the rate of profit falls.
Pretty sure they'll do anything to keep the doors off their public beaches.
If all else fails they Cana just move to a country that hasn't devolved to right wing hysterics and then buy up the politicians and media there to try to get their new nationalized tax rate lowered and start all over again.
The 'nothing ever happens' people have been quieter recently for sure
She typed all lower case though. That means she said it quietly.
i just do it because it's faster. imagine me talking really fast
The supreme court thing isn't decades happening. Someone actually making use of the ruling might be.
It's also worth mentioning that the state laying claim to minerals does not mean they have been socialized, and indeed they have not been, though what China actually did was nonetheless reasonable.
Yea china's just establishing that they have liberal rights, it's basically the same as when we use imminent domain to install a fore hydrant when a municipal water system gets redone.
-the pho place near me fixed their broth (less cinnamon)
This is the
news I needed-the pho place near me fixed their broth
Oh yeah I think they mentioned this on CNN last night
And they used the "breaking news" stinger for 6 hours to announce it at the start of every primitive show.
Could be. Things might be heating up, can't forget hurricane season!
To me it feels like the 2020s is the decade where the West is finding out after fucking around for so long and it can only respond with fascism. It is culminating in something happening every month, especially when the supreme court, Biden, Trump, and Europe are taking the mask off even further with each decision they make.
synthesis: some things happen, while other things do not happen
okay well I stubbed my toe on my way out the door for work this morning and I'm pretty sure that happened because it still hurts, explain that
Ehh, there's a bunch of stuff that seems like it's about to happen but at this point nothing has happened yet.
I do kind of feel like it's just going to be a long slow stagnation on the road to nowhere.
too good for badposting too bad for goodposting, just right for chapatitraphouse
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