This is more internal than international, but another way Biden accelerates the decline is by forcing the rest of the Democratic Party to goose step with him off the cliff. Under Trump they were able to become “the resistance” and present themselves as an anti-fascist party that was fighting back against the fascist turn in the Republican Party. Under Biden those very same people are now supporting genocide and law-and-order policies and protest crackdowns, and now the masses are turning against the Democratic Party.

The US decline will continue regardless of which candidate / branch of its one-party state is in office. I don’t believe either of them would manage that decline fundamentally diffrerently.

I think Biden is the accelerationist candidate, but he’s a little too good at it (it being- destroying the empire and potentially the whole world in the process).

I don’t support accelerationism regardless, but Biden is basically leading the whole west goose-stepping in their crusade against Russia, China, Palestine, Iran, and the multipolar efforts of the entire global south. The extent of his constant escalations abroad is horrifying and I can only expect them to get worse- meanwhile, domestically he’s no slouch in further destroying the living standards and material conditions/foundations the empire was built upon, and (arguably) serving better to tear at the fabric of the imperial cores’ societies than Trump ever could have (good riddance in that regard, fingers crossed, maybe the US will implode from within rather than explode from without and take the rest of humanity with it).

Frankly- Trump is a horrifying, nasty, murderous SOB- but that’s par for the course with western and particularly US leaders. I consider Biden and the neocon establishment that has reached its zenith across the west behind him an infinitely more worriesome beast, however- frankly, other than in domestic pseudo-progressive policy (which even then Biden is lukewarm on- and the horrors he supports abroad, from Banderites to Zionists obviously make him far more than a net negative in this regard as well) I consider Biden to be more corrupt, more unhinged, more destructive, a more effective herald for fascism across the west and within the US itself, and more dangerous than Trump in every other metric by a long shot.

I don’t believe either candidate is doing a bad job gutting the US on the inside, though as an outsider my perspective is limited.

On the diplomatic front, absolutely. During Trump’s term, most usian “allies” took the dumb shit he did as the temporary acts of some man-child. The corpse of Joe Biden is disproving the myth of the adults in charge in real time. He started a losing war in the Ukraine and now he’s practically overseeing a genocide. What’s more, he could’ve let Trump have sinophobia, but he chose to reveal that democrats could be just as sabre-rattling.

At this point anyone who isn’t as dignified as Obama is fine though. It’s all a race to the bottom with the bourgeois dictatorships and only an articulate, pretty face can mask that, and even that not for long.

Christian Parenti (Michael’s son) says he supports Trump just because at least he’s destructive to NATO and treats the DPRK better than any other American leader.

If Trump was president, then the mainstream narrative would be that the genocide in Gaza was simply because of Trump and Bibi’s leadership.

The media didn’t care about Israel sniping people during the Great March of Return. When Trump bombed Syria, they bent over backwards to say that was the moment he really became President. It’s possible more liberals would care about the genocide if he was in office but the media would likely still back Israel bc that’s what the US natsec ghouls want.

Don’t get me wrong, they’re both excellent accelerationist candidates. The world is watching two senile, hateful, egotistical vile men fight for control of the empire as the world burns.

It seems to me that you answered your own question. Your statement literally said “This person did it as well but called it this, this person would do it and be accused of this, this person did it so well, that this person, who also would do it, would blush, this person did it but said it was because of this”. I feel as if you view all of them to be the same but since the current one is the current one, perhaps he’s more of what you’re viewing them as.

I have believed so for a while

I think youre looking at the situation wrongly. Look at it from a class perspective. Both of them are burguese politicians, but Biden represents the top of the class, while Trump is a part a little lower on the ladder. As capitalism decomposes, the upper classes try to eat the lower ones, even among the burguesie. Thats the conflict at hand. Banks trying to eat industry. In a sense, biden is the man of the system, while trump is the lower part of the system trying to defend itself. Biden is a more cohesive option (for capitalism), while trump is the train derailing. Either way, ww3 is what we have down the road. Puting things like that, i think trump is worse for the system, he will fuck up a lot more. As an enemy of the empire, we want it to be governed by the worse (less coehesive) leader.

All that being said, both of them are incompetent dumb fucks and no amount of political skill can solve the capitalism crisis lying under all the political discussion.

The shine job they did on Biden while he was VP in the Obama years really weathered strong. All that “goofy grampa” shit they wrapped him in, and published all over the place, really solidified Biden as America’s Grandad, to the point that some people are still looking at him in the same way you might look at your cooky 80+ year old pops at the family picnic. They gave him this aura of stateliness, like he’s the Washington Monument come to life. He’s been through it all, seen every face of America, he’s the golden boy, the old dog, the tough but fair, the heavy hand but soft heart, the elected official equivalent of a mid-90s Ford Ranger, classic like coca-cola, a cool Budweiser on a hot summer night, Fireflies on the Forth of July, you know all that paper thin Americana draped over the face of death.

This is what makes him so effective, and what gives everyone the license to walk beside him. No doubt in my mind, the level of resistance to the genocide in Gaza would be magnified ten times if Trump was in power now, making all the same moves as Biden is now. It’s because libs view Trump as “Fascism Manifest”. He is the doomsayer, a harbinger of the Apocalypse, and a “threat to democracy”, whatever that means to them. His aura is toxic, and liberal progressives wouldn’t be seen collaborating with him because he gives up the game too easily. He wears his class interests on his sleeve. Watching progressives line up behind a pro genocide Donald Trump would be far too much cognitive dissonance for the liberal progressive voters to handle. Watching them line up behind Grandpa Joe, however, well, that’s just party unity and liberal progressives hunger for party unity.

I think the American institutions are accelerationist, and anyone you get out of that system as leaders would be accelerationists. The heel sets the stage, reads the crowd, establishes clear red lines and invites the masses to cosplay as resistance fighters standing behind the Face. Once the Face takes the stage, in the afterglow of the resistance’s victory, the red lines are moved forward quietly. Without this performance, there is no acceleration to be had. Both the Face and the Heel have a vested interested in the show they put on, and they need each other to keep the show going.