Not really addressing your main point, but I think the Chinese really hit on something rhetorically by saying x leader was 70% right and 30% wrong.

If we’re focusing on media, recently, because of the word “antifa” being tied to anarchists and being used to scaremonger by the media. The media generally scaremonger with “communists” referring to external threats and “anarchists” referring to internal threats (unless its policy or a politician, those can be labeled anarchist or communist or socialist).

Planescape Torment is my favorite Isekai.

Incoming: Municipality passes law mandating a reserved space for police officers for every handicap space a building has.

I’m “ask jeevesing” it

Interestingly, on Taiwan they have the Republic of China calendar (in addition to the Western calendar) which begins from the establishment of the RoC (1912 on the Western calendar).

Irrespective of their politics, Trump is funny and Shapiro is not funny.

Got it, I misunderstood

Where’s this energy when discussing America though?

BE hates America. He thinks all US troops are war criminals. He voices third worldist views that Americans are too morally cowardly and too materially invested in imperialism to fight their government.

Now, that could all be phony rhetoric that he plays up, but he’s definitely not engaging in the rhetoric you describe. He’s doing something different

Walz becomes VP nominee in morning

Cori Bush loses in evening

Funny.

My 11 year old said, “F#&* that means I’ll have to change my [redacted] plans to [redacted] the [redacted].”

Gonna start telling libs I’ve voted metaphysically and don’t need to show up to the polls in November

By taking the Shahada

They don’t want victory, they don’t want power

They want to endlessly “critique” power

the trick to zoom classes is to never turn on the camera

tbh, I hope he stays in. Biden is the true physically embodied face of the Democratic party. Don’t let them don a new mask, let the people see the monsters for what they are.

idk the motivation, but they have pulled significant amount funding, that’s an empirical fact. They could reverse that decision, of course, if he weathers the storm.

How will this work with the younger generations being majority non-white

In the US for the local primary, I did a lot of canvasing and ‘illegal immigrants are sucking up all the money’ is a belief held not just by white Anglos. A significant number of black people and even some Latin people expressed this belief. This is anecdotal of course, but there’s a trend toward cross-racial ‘nativism’ and xenophobia that’s growing.