People might not have sat through the debate or remember the soundbites.

But everyone’s going to remember the faces.

Those hosts have massive foreheads.

They name their country after the king who colonized them.

This isn’t true (migrant workers, prison labor, people hustling in general) unless they’re using a narrow definition of worker. Obviously, migrant workers who earn less than minimum wage and send money back to their families aren’t part of how the imperial core loot the Global South through unequal exchange. If anything, it’s the opposite. By transferring their inflated wage relative to the Global South back to the Global South, those migrant workers are doing reverse unequal exchange if anything. I don’t think I even need to go over prison labor where they more or less earn the same exact amount of USD as their Global South peers except they’re also stuck in a cage.

This is just baby’s first Third Worldism. Third Worldism has various inadequacies:

1. It doesn’t offer any form of praxis outside of “send money to orgs in the Global South.” There’s also “move to a Global South country where there is revolutionary potential” echoed by some except absolutely no one, certainly not a worker with actually existing revolutionary potential^TM wants to deal with your gringo sexpat ass. So, the only real form of praxis is raise money for Global South orgs.

2. It doesn’t really get into the heart of how the US is the global hegemon. Because in the end, it’s the US in particular and not the imperial core in general that is the global hegemon. Germany is absolutely part of the imperial core, but Germany also does as they’re fucking told by the US. Among Marxists, there’s a transnational vs national debate between people who see the bourgeoisie as having a transnational character that has moved beyond the nation-state and people who still see the bourgeoisie as rooted in their particular nation-state and who will use the nation-state to pursue their bourgeois interest. This was first expressed in Kautsky vs Lenin. Kautsky thought there was a superimperialism (this is different from how Hudson uses the term) where all the national bourgeoisie have more or less coalesced into a single oppressive class while Lenin thought the bourgeoisie still had a national character and will fight over territory that can be approximated as national self-interest. Imperial core vs Global South isn’t quite on the level of the bourgeoisie being transnational, but there’s a flattening where the US, France, Japan, and so on, despite having competing national interests, gets lumped together as “imperial core.”

3. It flattens and overvalorizes Global South workers. Not all Global South workers are equal. And among Global South workers, it’s not as simple as measuring revolutionary potential based on surplus value stolen. If that were the case, Haitian workers would’ve long since freed the Caribbean of neocolonialism and razed Paris to the ground for all the bullshit they’ve been through. Congolese workers would’ve long freed the entirety of Africa from the West. There’s the current state of political organization among workers. History is also important. Why is Burkina Faso a hotbed of revolutionary activity while Nigeria is ruled by a shameless Western puppet? This is Global South West African country vs Global South West African country where both countries get fucked by unequal exchange. Why have the Burkinabe rise up to the occasion while Nigerians seemingly have not? You can’t answer this question with third worldism.

The volume control is covering Link’s face.

They’re doing a bit.

It kinda makes sense if you see /r/politics as an extension of the media class and Reddit front page as the gesalt of inane R*dditors who haven’t received marching orders by the media class to pivot away from Biden on top of being in the denial stage of grief. Barring something extreme like Biden dying (or Biden somehow doing even worse in a second debate lol) Obama’s endorsement sealed the deal. The power struggle has swung heavily in favor of Biden and his personal patronage network. Parts of the media class who spoke out against Biden will be punished and made an example of while parts of the media class who supported Biden will be rewarded.

Labor Zionism was that insidious, truly a wolf in sheep’s clothing. A lot of socialists and communists of that time period got fooled by the Zionists.

Tsade male is a deranged Zionist.

Ge male is a gopnik.

Ay male has a complex about being so close but yet so far from being an alpha male.

E male is a cringey weeb.

This doesn’t look good unless Wikileaks had already released all the good shit and he just has to destroy a bunch of pointless memos:
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/06/27/assange-agrees-to-destroy-unpublished-classified-material/

1. Unless you live in a swing state, it doesn’t matter who you vote for. And unless everyone in the discord lives in a swing state, it doesn’t matter who they vote for either.

2. If your org has Palestinians, tell the people in that discord you’re not voting for someone who ordered the deaths of your comrades’ extended families. As far as Palestinians are concerned, Biden murdering their extended family is fucking personal. Nobody’s fucking voting for some dude who killed their family and friends.

Don’t argue with principles because liberals have none.

Some posts are the standard Biden rips Trump. Fetterman/Newsom having his back etc

These are brainwashed blue MAGA anarcho-Bidenists. Just useful idiots.

But like half are that he’s too old and got to go.

These are a mixture of shills getting new marching orders from the media class to push a new narrative and random critics who would’ve been banned if it wasn’t for the new marching orders.

I really love how their art is so political. It’s a reflection of the state of political development in broader Yemeni society.

The media class is now manufacturing consent to get rid of Biden and pave the way for Biden being replaced with a younger puppet. In the end, he’s just a puppet, and once a puppet proves to be more of a liability than an asset, it will be unceremoniously replaced with a better puppet.

The interesting development is that Biden has own peerage and sycophants who personally benefit from him being in power. It’s going to be a power struggle between the broader strata of bourgeoisie who see Biden’s use as a puppet coming to an end and Biden’s personal sycophants and smaller strata of bourgeoisie who financially profit with Biden being in charge.

Trump didn’t even bother answering a lot of the questions, showing contempt for the whole process. He even at one point said how the whole debate was a waste of time lol

Trump is nowhere close to how he was in 2016, and he reminds me of a aging band just playing the same hits that made them famous 20 years ago. I think if Trump had shown restraint, Biden would’ve looked even more of a complete trainwreck since I’ve noticed Biden’s senility becomes less noticeable when he’s insulting Trump.

But Biden’s performance was a fucking trainwreck. Dude can’t even stand still without making a memeable face. Trump at least still looks like Trump.

Here’s the original link in lemmy.ml if you want to see lemmy.world loser ledditors coping: https://lemmy.ml/post/17384440

Denial is the first stage of grief, but don’t worry, it’ll pass soon.

Trump didn’t bother answering the question and just went off topic lol

I think Biden slipped in the debate that Iran’s retaliation towards the assassination of Soleimani actually resulted in dead US troops instead of just “brain damage.”

I think Biden’s going to be replaced. It’s not that MSM finally realized Biden’s senile. They always knew. Their whole purpose is to manufacture consent, and after manufacturing consent that Biden is still mentally fit to be president, they’re now manufacturing consent for Biden to be replaced as nominee due to his age. I’ve seen people speculate that it’s because they want to skip the primaries so they can just replace Biden with a handpicked nominee at the convention.