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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • They just feel teased by the botched shot is all, they’ll probably shut up about it once Trump inevitably manages to spectacularly blow any sympathy he might have gained over this, as he is often want to do.

    Guy’s gonna hit the circuits like a lightning bolt about this, and inevitably he’s gonna say something that puts it right back into everyone’s head what exactly he’s proposing for his second term.

    It’s absolutely wild to think about, it’s the first campaign in history where both candidates survive mostly on a strategy of talking as little as humanly possible and under as controlled circumstances as humanly possible.

    The way to win is to actively avoid reminding everyone that the candidate you support is one of the candidates, because of just how much the media has poisoned the well that this very obvious outcome is some unforeseen portent of oncoming doom because gasp two first term presidents are seeking the second term.

    Like what in fuck were people expecting was gonna happen, a divine intervention? Joe’s literally said that it’d take that much at minimum to convince him to hand the reins even to Kamala, nevermind how Donny would probably spit in the eye of god himself at the suggestion that anyone but him, even a magically created exact copy of him in a younger body, should take over the campaign.




  • Third World is an outdated term to refer to neutral countries in the cold war.

    Unless there was a sudden dramatic shift in US geopolitical policy it would literally be impossible for it to be considered third world, as the very definition of third world as the definition inherently implies that the country in question is not allied with the US and the broader Western World.

    Austria and Switzerland were third world, technically Yugoslavia was too. China became third world for a decent stretch after the sino-soviet split since the other half of the definition relies on not being allied with the Soviets in particular.

    The use of third world as an insult for poor countries is a neo-colonial mindset that just takes for granted that anyone who isn’t an outright ally of the west or of the Russians must just be too poor to be worth considering as anything but uneducated people in dirt houses living subsistence lifestyles and who’s main interaction with an apparatus of state is occasionally seeing a humvee loaded up with the child soldiers of this warlord or that drive by.



  • I would say when two opposing personified forces clash it becomes a man vs man fight.

    IMO Man to Man covers peer against peer as well as literal fights between two normal human beings.

    Fights between particular vampires in the Castlevania series would also be considered man to man even if they are very specifically not human, they are still people with thought process and human level decision making ability, so man vs man conflict still applies.



  • I believe that this is the last off ramp we have before it’s Biden or it’s Trump. The only reason this discussion is worth entertaining is because people who haven’t hated Biden’s guts from go are raising the concern now too, but since it’s being had, we’d best have it now before the conference locks him in like it or not.

    I think the criticisms of his fitness for office are dramatically overblown and stem from a general lack of public awareness that, even setting aside his reputation of being a gaffe machine long predating any concerns about his age, the man has a speech impediment and has to put concentration into communicating clearly that most people don’t. There could be a full blown super computer operating in his head and we’d probably still see him flubbing about as often I believe.

    That being said, what is a valid concern is that his inability to communicate clearly without direct attention on doing so has lost him enough morale that there is open talk even among his staff of the viability of a mutiny, and I’m not so sure he’s still got time to definitively route the scheming before the convention. I’m thinking more and more he’s gonna get challenged on the floor and the DNC will force a brokered convention to make Joe fight for the nomination if he wants it with the rising concerns.

    This conversation isn’t going away on its own. A decision has to be made and implemented thoroughly, and without any fucking about over it.