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.

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.

The 'nothing ever happens' people have been quieter recently for sure

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.

-the pho place near me fixed their broth (less cinnamon)

This is the news I needed

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.

Its been decades in weeks since oct 7th

-the pho place near me fixed their broth

Oh yeah I think they mentioned this on CNN last night

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.

Could be. Things might be heating up, can't forget hurricane season!

nothing ever happens

It really feels like we're due

These aren't the weeks where decades happen. I fear that we are about to enter a stage of history where we will be living through decades where centuries happen. The current climate crisis is bigger than anything humanity has faced in its entire existence. This upcoming crisis is going to be larger in scale than the one that forced humanity to switch to agriculture.

more like reeks where doodoos happen

No. By the exercise in levity, you also seem to be ambivalent about it.

This is just what decline looks like. It's very naked and brazen with Biden, but that his senility is on full display only demonstrates that the Presidency is more of a presidium where the cabinet, advisors, and staff make the decisions; the President mediates and acts as spokesperson.

There is no inability to express and display power on the world stage, it is just a diminished form of this antagonism. The US is still ruining its enemies and puppets. It's just those subjects have adapted to those tactics to soften the blows.

I don't think Hezbollah is going to attack Israel either; I think Israel's decline is more precarious and amplified but the US will keep it alive as a zombie state as long as they suit each others needs. Israel will continue to bleed citizens who, if they don't have dual citizenship, will just try to emigrate to Europe & US as economic opportunities pull them there and economic stagnation looms in Israel. The trajectory it was on before Oct 7th.

Domestically, the US has crushed any nascent left-liberal, leftist, or left anti-capitalist/government movement and force. Those groups, such as they are, are scattered and weakened. And although there is growing consciousness and antagonism towards the government and capitalist order, there is no coherent ideologies, movement, activists, and party to mobilize and articulate a vision of an alternative.

Even the tactics of protest and resistance are diminished as they often are just glorified rallies and parades. Activists don't even need to resort to violence or property damage. They could just block airports, seaports, roads, warehouses, et cetera but most Americans aren't even up for that.

Ultimately, USD hegemony and global dependence define and determine the macro-tangible outcomes of our political landscape.

too good for badposting too bad for goodposting, just right for chapatitraphouse

I think Biden is going to refuse to step down so we're just going to see a slow lumbering jog to complete electoral defeat.

When the Republicans have complete control of all three branches next January that's when shits really gonna start hitting the fan domestically.

Unless Isreal decides to actually fuck around and find out with Hezbollah, that'll certainly shake things up. Maybe Biden will actually send American troops and drop the number of states he's viable in to the single digits.

supreme court fash speedrun any% begins in earnest

Begins? That shit goes back to at least them installing Dubya by decree.

biden does his best cryptkeeper impression in the debate, the lyin' lamestream media balks hard, swing state polls start leaking badly

Just the latest symptom of how decayed and impotent the DNC have become.

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"

And he said he was gonna lock up Hillary, we saw where that went.

xi presses the rare earth resources socialism button, presumably (or at least hopefully) in prep for pressing the ALL earth resources socialism button

This is the one with the most “weeks where decades happen” potential, America desperately flailing its antiquated economic empire weight around to get that sweet battery tech/materials they didn’t bother to develop themselves and China just goes “lol nope.” And the associated treat fallout would splinter the U.S.

heritage foundation president does a public threat of violence at the left, increasing his chances of being roadkilled by a significant factor (fingers crossed)

Ehh these types are always saying shit like that.

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

Americans are great at memory holing shit like that (see: Afghanistan in the 80’s), I fully expect libs to be “Zelensky who?” once the dust has settled.

No 😎

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I'm older than Biden in Lenin time right now

No. My criteria for for things happening is if everyone knows about it regardless of news reporting. A chatgpt generated headline summarizing a supreme court decision is not.

Isn't that the sentiment behind 'weeks where decades happen?' The momentous weeks that come out of nowhere, changing everything, and their seemingly innocuous build-up over the decades prior?