Jesus christ FT prices are nuts. 19k INR for a year of subscription? Would really like to meet an idiot one day who pays for this shit. Archived link.

Putin suggested on Wednesday that concerns over Biden’s age and mental acuity were part of the US election campaign “getting more and more vicious” and said he had seen no evidence his counterpart was not fit for office.

Alright he is taking the piss

My new favorate is libs seeing this as evidence that Putin is all in on Trump and if you say otherwise you are a russian bot

Honestly I think the Democrats are far, far worse at this point- but not in ways that anyone should support, even for accelerationism’s sake, unless they’re a deranged Posadist. Their idea of decline is sending the world spiraling into likely WW3, and their domestic policies are moving forward into fascism with far less pushback, far more competence and efficiency, than the Republicans. As I see it there are two competing forces of fascism within the west today- the “establishment,” which is generally unified in a common imperialist cause and represents the overwhelming forces of capital and colonial institutions and influence- and the varying “Trumpists,” “far-right,” and brownshirts whose only route to power is either usurping, or being blatantly welcomed into power by said establishment, as was historically done in Weimar Germany.

The modern brownshirts are rabble, just as their historical counterparts were rabble. Their demagoguery is terrifying, sure, and they do maintain some organization and power in their own right, but they are rabble- and there is no serious terror they might commit, that is not done without effective sanction by capital, and which the establishment- the core of capital and its forces- has not proven itself equally willing to commit, and worse. And as I see it- the old “brownshirt” routine is far less effective today, than it was in the 1930s- today’s brownshirts primarily are boogeymen, and even if and when they are brought to power, their blatantly repugnant nature works against their attempts to maintain effective government.

IMO- the real threat is the establishment which has discarded the modern brownshirts, which is to blame for sanctioning their actions to begin with, which historically is what empowered and opened the way for the historical brownshirts (Nazis) to establish their own government; and which is capable of (and presently doing) as much evil as the modern brownshirts have ever done (and then some) and far worse. That’s not to say that the brownshirts aren’t enemies- because they are- but IMO the more odious forces of fascism, the more competent forces, the more organized and unified forces, are presently the Democrats.

That is weird considering that republicans are pushing to normalize relations with Russia and focus on waging war on China. Democrats are the ones insisting on demonizing Russia too. At least in rhetoric.

The reason i prefer democrats is precisely that, they’re spreading too thin.

I would say its in the interest of american workers to vote in trump to further the internal war amongst the capitalists there, divest away from the empire which is eating away at the american economy inside-out, and hopefully create a space to establish more working class organizations and capitalize on revolutionary conditions like january 6th

Umm accelerationism?? Don’t you know that’s dangerous and hateful