Deaner

1st generation Palestinian New Yorker living in Los Angeles. Very funny. Lover. Cat Mom. Proud member of the LGBTQ+ community. FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA 🇵🇸

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

There’s still a genocide happening in Palestine.

There’s still a genocide happening in Sudan.

There’s still a genocide happening in Congo.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

No, the people singing “there are no schools in Gaza because we burned all the children” are not the fucking victims here, and no matter how many paid-for politicians send tweets pretending otherwise they never will be

[… @Dreadful4Tymes]

“They stormed the Capitol, you stormed Starbucks” is a bar. 😭😭

[Adam 🇵🇸 @sad_pali]

Imagine getting your ass beat so bad it becomes an international incident

[Karim is reading A Farewell to Arms @shift_in2_turbo]

Am I happy Trump won? No.
Am I happy Kamala lost? Absolutely.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

We all remember when Anne Frank left the attic to go to a soccer stadium and lead “death to the Arabs” chants

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

I’m a simple man. I believe that if you chant “death to Arabs” you should be swung on by all available nearby people

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

No, SHE did.

[Free @Laddin_]

I’m not happy Trump won, I am happy Kamala and all the genocide forgiving liberals lost.

[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.

[Shadi Hamid @shadihamid]

It's time for us to just be honest. This version of the Democratic Party is arrogant and patronizing, taking minority voters for granted and treating them like children. Well, maybe minority voters aren't into that.

[Meg Indurti @megindurti]

if you are someone who was able to overlook the genocide and cast a vote for kamala harris, then you already understand how a conservative was able to overlook Trump's extremism to vote for him.

[AshleyStevens @The_Acumen]

I’mma say the hard thing. Kamala Harris did not lose the election because of racism and misogyny. That was a negligible reason at best. Rashida Talib, Ilhan Omar, and Summer Lee all won their seats in swing states VP Harris lost. Sit with the real reasons why she lost.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Well it seems that tonight the Democrats are learning the hard way that aiding and abetting the genocide of Palestinians is in fact politically costly.

[Heena Lotus @intrepidlotus]

They said they could do it without Muslims and Arabs, so we let them.

[Adam 🇵🇸 @sad_pali]

Sending Bill Clinton to say arabs deserve to die then sending in Liz Cheney whose father literally orchestrated the murder of 1.5 million arabs to Michigan probably wasn’t the best strategy

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I don't want a two state solution.
I want a single state of Palestine, from the river to the sea, in which everybody is equal.
And I want the apartheid terrorist state of Israel to be abolished completely.

[Kim Iversen 🇺🇸 @KimIversenShow]

I won’t vote for an AIPAC candidate. A foreign country has bought off so many of our politicians they now control our foreign policy, have marched us into wars, and have successfully lobbied for numerous censorship laws. Since both Trump and Kamala are AIPAC candidates (Trump more than Harris) I won’t be voting for either of them. It’s really that simple.