Alec H

[𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 @beyoncegarden]

"you're sick for wishing death on someone"

charlie kirk😭:

[Alec H @Alec25252]

@Heroic_News @esjesjesj Yes. That's not a defence of trump here. They're both bad

[Alec H @Alec25252]

@Janine_1801 @theheraldsun Why would you not be allowed to travel outside 'your area'?

[Alec H @Alec25252]

@Vaxolotl1729 @Janine_1801 @theheraldsun Nah everything's a conspiracy man!

[Alec H @Alec25252]

@The_R_a_v_e_n_ @theheraldsun Tell me one bad thing about 15 min cities

[Alec H @Alec25252]

@Maebelffuts @jasonpizzino What tariffs? There are none

[litquidity @litcapital]

“OpenAI huh? $500B? Gimme 2 weeks and $5 million and I’ll clone it asap” - DeepSeek’s CTO

[Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc]

In 1961 it was predicted that by 1971 most unskilled jobs would be gone.

[Alec H @Alec25252]

@DanielLikesArt @jasonpizzino LH and LL = Down day

[Alec H @Alec25252]

@PhilipSoos Tripled? Only takes 30 seconds to verify that permanent migration is limited to 185,000. Must be getting confused with temporary migration.

[Alec H @Alec25252]

@GuatemalaBTC @jasonpizzino No. Commodities will peak last. Gold will be the final 'safe haven'

[Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_]

⚡️⭕️ Amsterdam Timeline :

1 - Israelis attack personal property

2- Israelis attack taxi drivers

3- Israelis chant "“Let the IDF win to Fuck the Arabs”

4- Israelis get beat up

5- Israelis start to market the story under the title "savage Islamic migrants attack peaceful Jews"

6- Israelis call it a pogrom against Jews

7- Israeli government and social media accounts exploit the event to the maximum to market / justify their genocidal war on Gaza and rally Europeans around their "cause" in "defending against terrorists"

[Mats Nilsson @mazzenilsson]

@zackbeauchamp Yeah whatever...

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.