Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]

good to know biden has the horse porn enthusiast vote

Shes also who I’d have that is most likely to win. All the other replacements lose imo.

give me a lever big enough and i will turn the world

I am amenable to this vibe but also its important to demonstrate to reddit brained that we have actually done more work in developing a politics that has materially worked far greater for far more people than anything they have conceived of. They’re here as guests and can ask questions in good faith but assertions are just a stupid thing to do going into any space that is dominated by any ideology

dim biden

These are honestly the best type of liberal to talk politics with in real life

How did I not know this what the fuck

do you think any other candidate has a chance of winning the White House in the elections?

Lets rank them by possibility

Vice President Kamala Harris. I see her losing a la 2016 just being an absolute dipshit campaigner and ultimately being a really unpopular and offputting person.

Governor Gavin Newsom. He’s basically a nobody with no publicly stated national beliefs. He looks like a slimeball and is one too. Would lose any or all of the eastern swing states, simply because he didnt have enough time to zero in on what he actually stood for.

First Lady Michelle Obama. She actually has a decent chance at winning, but why on earth would she want to? People know who she is, she’s well liked by suburbanites and elites. But would she be able to actually go high when confronted by media, or when Trump calls her a man on stage and points at her photoshopped pelvic bulge? I dont know what that looks like but it does feel like something that could happen

Bernie Sanders. He was also too old in 2020 but I have a feeling that if he gunned for the nom and didnt get it and actually split from the party it would finally destroy it. Please do it grandpa. He wont but I can pray for it.

Elizabeth Warren. Same schtick as Kamala but also looks old and white. runs and the only black person to vote for her is uncle Ruckus

Pete Buttigieg. Wins when the CIA totally dissolves the fiction of american democracy and just suspiciously kills trump. If not wins the electoral college but not the popular vote. Or just fails to get a campaign organized after the convention.

It happens in threes

All the VPs who later became presidents were the worst presidents.

hes not a household name, really bad for labor, hates the poors and knows hes better than us (french laundry), has a slimeball vibe and is also unmarried.

I think if they swapped that person would certainly lose, mostly because there just isnt another person that is both palatable to elites and popular (except maybe Michelle Obama?) to have people actually vote for them.

the weirdest thing to me about Biden recently is just how different he looks everytime I see him; some days it looks like fresh botox, then its like standard geriatric, then extremely greasy, then dry, then deflated bad facelift. Has he just ingested so much plastic that he has turned into clayface?

They’d also certainly lose is my reading of the vibe rn.

Got done watching the Hasan recap and it just hits pretty immediately that Biden is breathless and sleepy.

I’m far underread for this discussion but I think for most americans the mental/superstructural blocks to over come are the structure of race and whiteness and the perception of everyone as consumers.

In Netanyahu’s case regret ever immigrating and stop him from doing it ever again.

oh and yeah it just uses a lot of brainworms to kind of draw the systems into view but really after that it does do a good deal of simulating what country like that would look like IE that china starts with a less democratic government than most countries and pollutes a lot and is more unequal than the US but does fairly represent what these governments seem to tend to do in other areas like china is capable of anything given its industrial base. Kind of makes me feel like even if they programmed the brainworms in, the other materialistic programming is too strong of an actual force to represent that it just fades away given little relevance and then displays that reality. Pretty fun

Its fun. a lot of the UI is still pretty shit, and as a new player (like I was 3 weeks ago) it felt like i lost a few times because I just dont know where to look. I’ve kept myself free of a lot of guides until I’ve already lost to that thing. But yeah the UI just doesnt give you a lot even though its displaying a lot of information in every screen, does make you feel like mastermind in that way, but you have to click through so much and it doesnt really give you a lot of tooltips for keyboard shortcuts.

Its 3/5 for me but if you arn’t annoyed by something then you arn’t really in love with it.

Terra Invicta its pretty fun and decently materialistic (still some though)