Geopolitics

Lots of people on the other site are mocking this tweet, but I feel like there's a specific sense in which it's true.

American products, music, entertainment etc are still super pervasive worldwide, but what there's less caring about is US *real-time discourse*.

Eg. very little discussion of Biden vs Trump in non-US

In 2016 or even 2020 things felt very different in this regard.

And the same for other US political tropes: wokeness vs antiwokeness, "the southern border", red vs blue, gender issues...

I don't think I heard any reference to them in my recent memory of travels through the non-West. This feels new.

There’s less talk about those things *in* the US as well. No one is excited about T v B. T’s not on Twitter anymore. US politics right now are: illegal immigration, the economy, the Middle East. There’s nothing “new” to get excited about