Max in San Diego

More tweets from me and you and Zubumbafoo.

[prance @bocxtop]

u cannot claim to be morally superior to anyone when u start gloating about a group being ethnically cleansed because they didn’t vote for ur imperialist candidate of choice

[caitie delaney @caitiedelaney]

Actually protesting the continual slaughter of thousands of innocent people is always correct, hope this helps

[Max in San Diego @MaxScd]

@alec_bradley Jealous much?

[Max in San Diego @MaxScd]

Told yall.

[Max in San Diego @MaxScd]

I emailed the Dodger FO and told them I don’t want to see another Wild Card/Division Championship/NL Penant until we get the chip. Shits embarrassing.

[Max in San Diego @MaxScd]

Far be it for me to question anybody’s musical preferences, but why is it that every time ESPN on the SEC has an option to play music, we keep coming back to “running down a dream” by Tom Petty? Like I loved Tom Petty, but I swear I’ve heard that song multiple times being played

[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.

[Congresswoman Cori Bush (Archived) @RepCori]

There are no words powerful enough to capture the agony of human beings being massacred & burned alive.

The U.S. is funding & arming the Israeli military’s extermination of the Palestinian people. It’s unconscionable.

End this genocide. There must be an #ArmsEmbargoNow

[Sumaya Awad @sumayaawad]

HAPPENING NOW: anti-Zionist Jews taking over New York stock exchange with one message: Stop Arming Israel! No one should profit off the murder, the burning alive of Palestinians.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

spending yom kippur in brooklyn with hundreds of jews who reject the notion that jewish safety must come at the expense of palestinians, for our liberation is intertwined

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

I look so sad.
My eyes are so sad.

[Max in San Diego @MaxScd]

@JoshPateCFB The duality of man

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

UK polls show that:

• 84% of the public think Netanyahu should be arrested if he comes to the UK

• 67% think Israel has committed war crimes

• 56% support blocking all arms sales to Israel

The British public are on the right side of history. Our political leaders are not.

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

"I found a considerable lack of work after doing concerts for Palestinian children.. if that's the way it has to be, that's the way it has to be. If you support human rights, you gotta support them everywhere."

- Kris Kristofferson

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

An entire army is trying to silence a group of journalists dedicated to telling the stories of Palestinians to the world.

Shutting down our offices won’t stop our voices.

We will continue reporting - until our last breath.

[(INSERT BLACK CHARACTER) Deserves Better @GL2814_3]

I see it's on me to represent

[Max in San Diego @MaxScd]

I refuse to answer a literal cal to adventure; let it go to voicemail.

[Max in San Diego @MaxScd]

It was 102° degrees today

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

theres a PC game from the 90s called ‘nightmare ned’. its a disney game that is, functionally, a kids game - i would say, except for the concept: you play as a child who has been left alone in their home at night, who experiences their home as a nightmarish horror phantasm.

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[Max in San Diego @MaxScd]

The other day at work we went to the warehouse and saw that the guys had collected a prosthetic leg like wtf how are we gunna sell that shit?