Abhigna

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[Abhigna @abhignaaaa]

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[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Our time has come, New York.

Our time is now.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

“Israeli families and the people of Gaza” - this wasn’t a deliberate demarcation of humanity; it’s reflex. A masterclass in seven words on how Palestinians are rendered faceless and nameless when slaughtered, while Israelis are granted empathy - especially when they are the butchers.

[katie crosson @katiecrosson]

baby formula sinking to the bottom of the ocean in international waters 60 nautical miles from the site of mass starvation. this shames the world

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

For two years, the overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews and every one of their institutions have supported the non-stop slaughter & starvation of Palestinians; the vast majority believe there are no innocents in Gaza.

But the NYT believes it’s the slaughtered who have to be “deradicalized”.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

The violence of this gesture. The racism. The dehumanization. The ruthlessness. The arrogance. The lawlessness. The bloodthirst. The unmitigated evil. This is the US empire.

[claire @claireyael]

I’m no reply girl, but I am a like girl. I like a lot of tweets, a lot of stories, overall a lot of posts. I’m a giver. A lover of like. I love a tap on the heart, you could say.

[Shivani @ilovemy__house]

How r people so productive on train journeys i literally just experience 4 hrs of Big Thought

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

people who say “why do we need [fine arts, humanities degrees, mid-budget films] when they don’t make a ton of money?” are insufferable. why do we need chrysanthemums? why do we need bonfires or baleen whales or the color blue? we just do. we just do.

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[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

A genocide has become background noise, just a thing that is constantly happening. Horrific levels of normalisation

[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.

[🌾 Ivan 🌾 @HuskerAlways1]

Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar won re-election by comfortable margins and the rest of the party are fighting for their lives in these states.

Let’s not pretend we don’t know how that happened.🤷🏻

[michael wave @michael___wave]

not the first or last to say it, but if i run over human beings with a bulldozer, the sight of their mangled bodies is not something I witnessed, it is something I DID

[Bassem Youssef @Byoussef]

And suddenly my phone , our security system , my kids tablets are time bombs that detonate at the whims of one country . You win Israel . Not a single politician or late night show talks about this ? None of that worth the news ? Nothing “funny” can come out of it ? The whole country is truly a hostage. The whole world is.

[maya 🦭 @mayaisfiya]

my heart hurts