Toby Driver

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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.

[Devdev @DevdevTWT]

#DoNotConcedeKamala GET THE FUCK BACK IN THERE KAMALA DON'T ACT LIKE A DEMOCRAT AND JUST LET IT HAPPEN. BARK AND YELL AND SCREAM AND FUCKING DEMAND A RECOUNT JUST LIKE THEY DID 4 YEARS AGO.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE ECONOMY, THIS IS ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS.

[Toby Driver @tobydriver]

Americans, especially those in swing states: please vote for Kamala Harris today. Even if you don’t care and you think it doesn’t matter or if you are usually a non-voter. Please do it for the rest of us!! We’re counting on you!

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This video is incredible.

Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.

[Toby Driver @tobydriver]

Anyone willing to share DIY booking contacts? Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Australia…? Please send a message or email me - td at kayo dot dot net Thanks!!!

[Everything Is Noise @NoiseEverything]

Check out our review for Alora Crucible's new album "Oak Lace Apparition", which was released August 9 via House of Mythology (@HOMlabel)!

Excerpt below
https://t.co/DmupYpdKRj

[Toby Driver @tobydriver]

A link that no one will ever see.
https://t.co/0SiNBjKTLJ

[Toby Driver @tobydriver]

Hey everybody the way to solve the housing crisis is to make it illegal to own multiple homes

[Jeandenim @hdaeyn]

@ParanoidTourist @tobydriver @shadeyy_6 Huge vouch for Toby and Alora Crucible. Glistening and fresh goosebumps from a super gentle spring drizzle, pulling back big leaves with little puddles of water, this album.

[NG SF | Kid Ei @ VI A TWICEEEE! ♨️RIP🐧❤🐯4/4/24 @ParanoidTourist]

@shadeyy_6 As you like Kali Malone and Post Rock you should check the new Alora Crucible album, is AOTY material. If you don't know him is the side project of Toby Driver from Kayo Dot

[The Progressive Subway @progsubway]

Alora Crucible's "Oak Lace Apparition" is undeniably lush and texturally rich and at the same time laced in quasi-eldritch dissonance. https://t.co/YjAdrQcSPu

[Toby Driver @tobydriver]

O🌊L🌊A🌊

(Oak Lace Apparition)
out now!!!!

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

I agree with those who say this video should go viral *every single day* until Americans go to the polls in November

[Toby Driver @tobydriver]

"Oak Lace Apparition" comes out in a few days! In trying to promote it, I've been sending it out to close contacts, but nearly all my contacts are in a different scene. Could any of you recommend radio or press contacts that'd be interested in covering peaceful, non-rock music?

[Jeandenim @hdaeyn]

New @AloraCrucible track. Highly euphoric and feels exactly as @tobydriver put it in his newsletter, “Creating the songs as a trio with Timba and Cristina in a live collaborative environment was the highest level of pure musical experience possible …” https://t.co/nHTcN68qIG

[Toby Driver @tobydriver]

What are the shield?
a. The invisible wagon with invisible seeds
b. The forking timeline where you fall in
c. A hole in the lake on the day you expired
d. The ozone perfume of the high tension wires
e. The cowbells' shamble to the gloaming
f. All of the above

[Toby Driver @tobydriver]

@JesseKrakow Thanks, Jesse!

[Toby Driver @tobydriver]

My friends, I’ve released a new song this weekend. Have a listen:

[Ulverofficial @ULVEROFFICIAL]

So beautiful it hurts, @tobydriver:
https://t.co/QYm5Yp68rF

[Toby Driver @tobydriver]

@panosd If some promoter gets in touch with me.

[Toby Driver @tobydriver]

I’ll be on tour in Europe with Extra Life next week:
7/5 | Mülheim
8/5 | Karlsruhe  
9/5 | Brussels
10/5 | Lippstadt
12/5 | Budapest
13/5 | Bratislava 
14/5 | Prague
15/5 | Berlin   
16/5 | Aarhus 
17/5 | Oldenburg   
18/5 | Copenhagen •  A Colossal Weekend

[Toby Driver @tobydriver]

People need to stop saying that Democrats will feel that their primary votes were taken from them by the Party. That’s nonsense. There weren’t even any candidates to choose from during the primary because Biden was presumptive the whole time. The primary was just a gesture.