Munrock

Trump is just nervously inching closer and closer to Joe

And then they kiss

chances are, they’d think you’re a Marxist or someone old-fashioned in their speech…

This isn't a good thing; it's a result of a concerted effort to make people think Marxism is old and irrelevant.

I really dislike the notion that we should stop using the term 'bourgeoisie' just because of the pop notion that it's an outdated word and that nobody knows how to spell it.

Yes, the English language is constantly evolving and terms fall out of use, but as they do so the language doesn't just reflect the dominant thought patterns but reinforces them. English has a high chance to remain the most popular global lingua franca even after Western hegemony falls, and the evolution of the language will remain a battle ground.

There is slow progress in people learning that liberalism means liberty for markets and not for people, but most people still think it means liberation of individuals, genders and minorities. The fastest way to 'liberate' someone from that error is to get them understanding the class conflict, and the term 'bourgeoisie' is still relevant to that.

The Democrats knew this was going to happen. There's no way they couldn't. And I don't mean Democrat supporters, many of whom were vehement that Biden was fine like so many anecdotes in this thread recount. I mean the Democrat leadership, who manage his campaign and more than likely manage his presidency. Unlike the public, they have access to him. They have his medical records, the reports of his doctors and caregivers, everything. There's no way they didn't know this would happen if he debated.

They might start seeding support for a different candidate into their supporter's discourse after this, but they will have been planning for this outcome long ago. And when a left-leaning (left from a US Overton window) news platform hosts a debate that shows him up that badly and then publishes commentary like this, you have to wonder if that caused friction with the DNC or if they assented to it.

As the party starts singling out a replacement, the question I hope people start asking is why they didn't replace Biden earlier? Did they need to wait until the urgency of imminent elections made their new candidate more palatable? And if they don't replace Biden, why are they letting Trump win?

https://youtu.be/PkqftJRoSXo

Forked-tongued ghouls, all of them.

He gives lots of reasons, but if one of them isn't "oil-producing countries are starting to escape US hegemony and your gas-guzzling motor industry is on borrowed time" then I don't think he's really appealing to the US government's interests.

They should start calling them seasons, and produce teaser/release trailers and behind-the-scenes interviews with the sanctions architects to build up more hype and anticipation for each season's package drop. Maybe that way, the Russian economy might actually be interested. Or affected.

Or it's a glimpse at Rom's Dengist arc

The kicker is that Rom eventually becomes Grand Nagus and starts transforming Ferengi society.

The new HBO The Last Of Us series for example has this scene,

I love that scene. It's so authentic: hearing a white American describe his successful living arrangement as literal communism but saying it's not communism, and a black American correcting him. 100 years of Red Scare and minority struggle captured in a few lines of dialogue.

That's not just research, molten salt heliostats are in active use already.

"We did it! We time travelled! But what year is it?"

"I'll ask that guy over there. Hey stranger, are you aware that Palestine is being illegally occupied by a genocidal Zionist state?"

"Yes."

"So we're somewhere between 1948 and 2025..."

"I can narrow it down. Hey again stranger, are you a liberal?"

"Yes."

"So we're somewhere between 2023 and 2025."