In terms of public sentiment I am pretty positive. Communism is becoming less and less of an effective Boogeyman each cycle and while GenZ does seem like a problem due to its reactionary gender/race identity politics I actually think there's reason to believe class based approach would gain some significant ground.
Here's the problem and why I remain not super enthusiastic and bordering on doomer: The last few election cycles have really showed that there are zero shortcuts here. The democratic party will straight up nuke itself before it allows an economically populist left movement take it over. If they didn't show that in 2016 or 2020 they hella fucking showed that in 2024.
People may broadly be coming around to like the idea of socialism and communism...but I think most of those people probably still in the mindset that we need to run leftwing candidates and vote our way to socialism.
Maybe we'll get there eventually...but I think we are a long way from people being ready to actually do direct action...and it's clear to me that's what its gonna take.
I've taken a small break from the sf6 grind. Need to reset myself a bit both to rediscover my drive and also unlearn some bad habits.
-I beat silent Hill remake. I liked it although I'm not quite sure what to make of the whole thing overall. Mainly I do think the whole thing is like 8 hours two long and I would like an abbreviation to match what I hear the original was like. I got the "bad" ending but tbh it seemed like a satisfactory end for Sunderland.
-did the Valhalla dlc for god of war now that its on PC. Good stuff. Shades of Hades. That conclusion and monologue was legit.
-my son and I have been playing little nightmares 2 together. We did part one for Halloween and now we're knew deep in the sequel.
-i feel since silent Hill and outer wilds echoes of the she I can actually kinda do horror finally.
Next on my playlist is probably last of us on PC...but I still need to play disco Elysium.