Andy Action

Rökstah, Fulfillment Cave Troll, DM, Husband, Sober feline advocate.

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@2G1Reviews Thanks for the bump, Ryan!
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[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@coreylosco Oh hell yes!
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[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.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@RonFilipkowski I mean, when you lie all day every day, why not go full supernatural?

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@RonFilipkowski Douchechills cringe

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@CalltoActivism Douchechills

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@chriswild Clown show

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@waltermasterson Every time

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@Damaan4u33 Transitioning? It’s the baseline requirement for admission!

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@HailOrcusdorkus I’ve got most of them and they’re all amateurish and “of the era.”
For me, they’re more interesting as anthropological studies and/or sources for ideas/content.
That said, it would be a fun experiment to run these verbatim using the original rules set(s) and see how they play!

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@RealCandaceO It’s a civil case. Aren’t you supposed to be the “party of law and order” and “pro-life?”

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@AlexSkolnick It’s a straight up cult.

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@CalltoActivism Cringeworthy

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@elonmusk Secret service, are you seeing this?

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@jrpsaki He’s like the middle schooler who didn’t read the book giving an oral book report in front of the class

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@HailOrcusdorkus So glad we were on the magic carpet ride to together, my friend!

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@MiracIeMax @ExpatPatriotTW @tbailey1976 @EdKrassen *supposedly

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@ExpatPatriotTW @tbailey1976 @EdKrassen We both know it’s more than that, Einstein

[Andy Action @AndyAction]

@ExpatPatriotTW @tbailey1976 @EdKrassen It’s “marshal” you know-nothing dingbat.