Stovo

Trump is a far more important figure in terms of his impact on the country so Biden will be remembered in the context of Trump. Biden is the guy who served between Trump's 2 terms.

This entire thread should be a case study on how emotional feelings towards a person cloud your judgement of them in every area. It's like that ex that cheated on you so you can't remember any positive qualities about them.

Exactly

That's a strawman, you bought up China. 130 million estimated outbound departures from China in 2024, most of these will double count people who travel abroad multiple times in one year. Very few Chinese have ever been abroad as a % of their population.

90% of Chinese people are nationalist extremists. My girlfriend is Chinese and I have interesting conversations with Chinese people all the time but these are the most developed 5% of the population that are lucky enough to live in rich cities and travel abroad.

Of course if that happens then the right wing will claim that "Europe has fallen" and has fallen into authoritarianism. I think it's politically feasible though, for example Musk is extremely unpopular with the British public in polls.

The cost to takeover Canada would be significant in resources and nearly impossible given the size of the country, even if they succeed they'd get constant guerilla warfare from a rebel movement and the population would reject it entirely. The US would also risk losing other allies. I actually think there's a distinct possibility this is a military strategy to force the US allies to significantly increase military spending which is required for the west to beat Russia, China, Iran.

Based on the past couple of weeks the right is going to destroy themselves, the stuff going round on X is so fucking stupid it's actually pushed me significantly to the left

100% Frustratingly the more political he's gotten the more popular he's become.

The US is already taking action against China but it's an economic/trade war because China hasn't militarily attacked the west like Russia has.

Much of the European right is to the left of the democrats, e.g. the British conservative party. There does exist a populist right in Europe but they're still to the left of most Republicans. The Republican party would be seen as an extremist party if it was in Europe.

Green isn't dead. It's very much alive in northern Europe and the west and east coasts of the US. The challenge for the US is half the country is at northern Europe levels of social development and the other half is at Russian levels of social development.

Big tech corruption is a blind spot of the left. Everyday people get blocked from 1 or more of these platforms with no way to resolve it.

This is 90% stage green with a hint of yellow.