Bixstir

I: Eat books. Inhale jalebis. Write stories. Disrupt the status quo. Delete cat pictures. Edit @TheOffingMag. Market nonprofits @Take2Services.

[Bixstir @BixGabriel]

@C_L_Clark One of the greats. 💔

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@abrahimKamal74 🇵🇸🍉

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@yousef_ki1 🇵🇸

[Bixstir @BixGabriel]

This right here. I urge everyone to read this: what has happened and what we can do next. Hat tip to @NaziaKaziTweets for sending my way.

[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.

[Bixstir @BixGabriel]

@yousef_ki1 🇵🇸🍉

[Yousef in Gaza 🇵🇸 @yousefQasem1998]

I BEG U DONT SKIP FOR IMPORTANCE

The infection spread throughout
Nimir's baby girls entire body Namir needs to get her kids out of g@za please help them ASAP
THEIR TREATMENT IS NOT WORKING AND THE WEATHER IS MAKING IT WORSE

HELP ME GET TREATMENT
https://t.co/EemOiKFMLV
#BB26

[Bixstir @BixGabriel]

@ZaqoutMe 🇵🇸🍉

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

Kinan sending Salam ❤️

[Bixstir @BixGabriel]

@AhmedWbelbisi 🍉

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Expel the Zionist regime from the UN.

Well done, Malaysia!

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

Canadian journalist just got intellectually slapped‼️

[Bixstir @BixGabriel]

@palestine_live_ 🇵🇸

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

FROM
THE
RIVER
TO
THE
SEA

🍉

[mohammed hussein~Gaza 🇵🇸 @mohammedIhysse]

Here’s a photo of my son Adam with our cat Mishmish in front of our tent in the midst of the Gaza war 💔. Adam took his first steps to the sounds of bombings, never knowing peace or safety. He’s grown up surrounded by fear and destruction, without experiencing real childhood or ever hearing a moment of calm. Every step he takes in the displacement camp, under a barrage of bombs, is a painful reminder of the unimaginable injustice that Gaza’s children bear.

[ALLLAM IN GAZA 🇵🇸 @All7m_Mahmou14d]

Please don't skip me :((

My account was restricted by people I don't know because they don't want us to achieve our goal and get out of here

Please support gfm as much as you can!!

Please, leave a comment 🇵🇸 or 🍉
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[Mansoor Adayfi 441 منصور الضيفي @MansoorAdayfi]

With only weeks left, Biden @POTUS has a crucial chance to release the Guantanamo prisoners who have been cleared for release for years yet remain unjustly detained. If action isn’t taken now, Trump’s incoming policies may close this door for good. We must urge Biden to secure their freedom before it’s too late—justice and humanity demand it

#CloseguantanamoNow
#FreeTheGuantanamo16

[yazan𓂆 @yazanomarrr]

I am just so sad ..
My account is dying ;( If you see this post PLEASE, just comment and donate if you can !🍉,📷👇🏻

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[Fady Joudah @FadyJoudah]

What a difficult day …is

[ALLLAM IN GAZA 🇵🇸 @All7m_Mahmou14d]

PLEASE DON'T SKIP ME :((

My account has been restricted,
So, my gfm doesn't appear to everyone!
Please support my family gfm !!
by sharing and quoting and donating 💔🙏🏻🚨

Please, Leave a comment 🇵🇸 or 🍉
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[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

My reproductive rights will never matter more than the life of a Palestinian.

Just finished reading this report and it is devastating. All conditions for sustaining and protecting life, especially of mothers & newborns, have been eviscerated in Gaza. ‘Evil’ is insufficient to describe the reproductive violence exacted against Palestinian women by the Americans & Israelis.

https://t.co/mwYzJdexoN