Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]

good to know biden has the horse porn enthusiast vote

Shes also who I’d have that is most likely to win. All the other replacements lose imo.

give me a lever big enough and i will turn the world

Why couldn’t China just do that and support revolution elsewhere?

I definitely agree with this, but given the modern history of China and its local history (1980+) theres a lot of risk in losing these fights supporting revolution, and it crystalizes the international bourgeoisie against you. Especially like the Soviet war in Afghanistan, you stick your neck out for not a whole lot of gain (underdeveloped trading nations with shaky institutions) that the safer option is to just focus inwards, to not allow your population hear the siren song of liberalism, and then to work with and develop these countries, working with their institutions to maybe create a proletariat capable of wielding power that is hopefully ideologically allied to you a la the Belt and Road Initiative.

I wont claim that China could see Western Powers devolving in the wake of the Soviet collapse but the West really didnt waste much time stretching their legs and continuing their wars of aggression, Gulf War, bombing Yugoslavia, and ultimately taking one too many risks that like in the USA left them to focused on foreign adventurism than keeping the lights on at home. America after the collapse also kept a list of enemies especially going into the 21st century that didnt have china on it. It had Saddam, Kim Jong-il and Khomeini. And that list got smaller and smaller and China only now is on that list.

We also cant really say that the Chinese method has worked yet. We’re still a while out of the total collapse of Western Hegemony, and while China is ascendant, theres still doubt in my mind that BRICS could hold up the world economy in place of America. The world seems likely to change very fast in a very chaotic way, and China’s stalwart development seems like the only thing that could change without being destroyed by it.

UMmm the akkadians were the first to create an empire to impliment imperial control over other cultures and they did that thousands of years before qin shi huang.

I am amenable to this vibe but also its important to demonstrate to reddit brained that we have actually done more work in developing a politics that has materially worked far greater for far more people than anything they have conceived of. They’re here as guests and can ask questions in good faith but assertions are just a stupid thing to do going into any space that is dominated by any ideology

dim biden

These are honestly the best type of liberal to talk politics with in real life

How did I not know this what the fuck

do you think any other candidate has a chance of winning the White House in the elections?

Lets rank them by possibility

Vice President Kamala Harris. I see her losing a la 2016 just being an absolute dipshit campaigner and ultimately being a really unpopular and offputting person.

Governor Gavin Newsom. He’s basically a nobody with no publicly stated national beliefs. He looks like a slimeball and is one too. Would lose any or all of the eastern swing states, simply because he didnt have enough time to zero in on what he actually stood for.

First Lady Michelle Obama. She actually has a decent chance at winning, but why on earth would she want to? People know who she is, she’s well liked by suburbanites and elites. But would she be able to actually go high when confronted by media, or when Trump calls her a man on stage and points at her photoshopped pelvic bulge? I dont know what that looks like but it does feel like something that could happen

Bernie Sanders. He was also too old in 2020 but I have a feeling that if he gunned for the nom and didnt get it and actually split from the party it would finally destroy it. Please do it grandpa. He wont but I can pray for it.

Elizabeth Warren. Same schtick as Kamala but also looks old and white. runs and the only black person to vote for her is uncle Ruckus

Pete Buttigieg. Wins when the CIA totally dissolves the fiction of american democracy and just suspiciously kills trump. If not wins the electoral college but not the popular vote. Or just fails to get a campaign organized after the convention.

It happens in threes

All the VPs who later became presidents were the worst presidents.

hes not a household name, really bad for labor, hates the poors and knows hes better than us (french laundry), has a slimeball vibe and is also unmarried.

I think if they swapped that person would certainly lose, mostly because there just isnt another person that is both palatable to elites and popular (except maybe Michelle Obama?) to have people actually vote for them.

the weirdest thing to me about Biden recently is just how different he looks everytime I see him; some days it looks like fresh botox, then its like standard geriatric, then extremely greasy, then dry, then deflated bad facelift. Has he just ingested so much plastic that he has turned into clayface?

They’d also certainly lose is my reading of the vibe rn.

Got done watching the Hasan recap and it just hits pretty immediately that Biden is breathless and sleepy.

Feinstein was episode two, this is revenge of the sith

I’m far underread for this discussion but I think for most americans the mental/superstructural blocks to over come are the structure of race and whiteness and the perception of everyone as consumers.

In Netanyahu’s case regret ever immigrating and stop him from doing it ever again.