-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 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.
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.