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

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People have been beaten down by the chaos caused by Trump/MAGA, and utterly exhausted from the divide and conquer nonsense culture wars, to the point that they've tuned out so hard they aren't realizing progress that has been made on multiple fronts (e.g., energy independence, chips mfg, and infrastructure).