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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.

[Mike Wise @MikeWiseguy]

It's not just that Trump won. It's that Joe Rogan, Dana White and Brett Favre won. Jailed insurrectionists won. The Alitos and the Thomases won. Vladimir Putin won. Racism won. Misogyny won. Sexism won. Global warming won. Xenophobia won. Most of all: Fear Won. That's what hurts.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Elon Musk became $16.3 billion richer YESTERDAY. He's now worth $281 billion.

The $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage has not been raised in 15 years.

The $2.13 an hour tipped minimum wage has not been raised in 33-years.

Welcome to the Divided States of Oligarchy.

[Tom Nuttall @tom_nuttall]

Home page of one of Germany's biggest weeklies right now

[Izabela Zygmunt @IzabelaDZygmunt]

Prawo do azylu jest prawem podstawowym.
Jeśli można je “zawiesiċ” (co to w ogóle za konstrukcja prawna??) to co stoi na przeszkodzie, żeby zawiesiċ też inne prawa z Karty Praw Podstawowych, np wolność zgromadzeń, swobodę wypowiedzi, prawo własności?

[smutne historie spisane na kacu i tanim papierze @SmutneHistorie]

nosferatu. #satyra #wampirzwiejskiej #romangiertych #konserwa #znajdziesiękołeknagiertychstołek #zabićwiekotejtrumny #aborcja #głosowanie

[Wolnelewo @wolnelewo]

"Czy z powodu rozsiewanej przez polityków celowo paniki, chcecie żyć w kraju, w którym służby mogą bezkarnie strzelać, a po wsiach i miastach kręcą się podejrzani szeryfowie z boskiego nadania"?

https://t.co/QYnMkibd3r

[Adam Kościelak @AdamKoscielak]

Mbappe: Apeluje o uczestniczenie w demokracji.

Demiral: Larpuje terrorystę.

Stanowski:
Zawiesić Mbappe jak już.

Geniusz.

[Patroni Wyklęci @P_P_o_P_W]

Gdybyście w czerwcu 39 czytali prasę ONR, to dowiedzielibyście się, że upadek Hitlera nie leży w interesie Polski.

Bo jak nie będzie Hitlera, to będą Żydzi i socjalizm, a to o wiele większe zagrożenie dla Polski!

Autor tej błyskotliwej analizy 2 lata później zgin��ł w Auschwitz.

[Michał Danielewski @synczeslawa]

Jesteśmy o krok od powstania paramilitarnych skrajnie prawicowych bojówek i to jest ostatni moment na reakcję państwa

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

Supporting @RealCandaceO isn’t about agreeing with all her opinions.

It’s about standing up for all journalists that don’t bend the knee to Zionists that fire, defame, and harass anyone who doesn’t stay in the lanes they’re told to.

A free press is the bedrock of a free society. And if we let them silence and destroy journalists that speak out, we will get exactly the future we deserve.

Personally, I can’t wait to watch another leading voice go independent and grow even bigger. The old systems of control are crumbling. 🔥

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Claudia Sheinbaum is Mexico’s 1st female President
Climate scientist, feminist, leftist & pro-Palestinian Jew
She has a PHD & shared a Nobel prize

Her Republican US neighbours will not attend her inauguration - who cares?

Congratulations Mexico
Congratulations President Claudia

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Check out MeBogdan's video! #TikTok https://t.co/NikUqJT2c4

[Lukasz Lipinski @lukaszlipinski]

Co się będzie działo w 2024 roku? Co z nową większością i rządem Tuska? Co z PiS-em? Co dalej z wojną w Ukrainie i kto wygra wybory w USA? W nowym podkaście rozmawiam z Jerzym Baczyńskim. https://t.co/PzNEstGjR6

[Philippe Lazzarini @UNLazzarini]

In my 35 years of work in complex emergencies, I never have expected to write such a letter, predicting the killing of my staff & the collapse of the mandate I am expected to fulfill #Gaza

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

The📍#GazaStrip: In the darkest hour as humanitarian situation untenable

@UNLazzarini: I urge all member states to take immediate actions to implement an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, enforce international law

FULL STATEMENT ⬇️
https://t.co/DHC9r2I5FU

[Afif Aqrabawi @AjAqrabawi]

According to this deranged rep from Israel, even the UN is now operating for Hamas!

They've lost any remaining credibility and it's about time we sanction and remove them from every international institution they refuse to respect.

No one is above the law.

[Lamis Deek لميس ديك @Lamis_Deek]

The painful, searing, irony