craig

paying child support to the game
he/him

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

we both up now

[kendall @superiorsantina]

"She ran the best campaign she could!"

[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.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

nonstop everyday, with full bipartisan support. Republicans openly genocidal, entirely fictitious “ceasefire talks” to give Dems cover so they can support genocide with a Sad Face, a liberal establishment entirely in election mode that’s nothing more than an excuse-making machine

[wint @dril]

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

[Jaythechou @jaythechou]

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1193

[aaron @PrettyObvious7]

I never Ever get tired of the full punchline from this scene

[thomas violence @thomas_violence]

a guy got removed from our flight today and it's incredible how much it brought us all together. they should kick one person off every flight to build cohesion and morale for the passengers and crew. they can be a paid actor or whatever, they just have to cause a scene

[Oluwajomiloju @JomiAdeniran]

Explaining to Homeland Security why I was yelling “OPEN SHOOTER” in the middle of an airport <<<<<<

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

What a loser. Go get you some ice 💎💎

[craig @d_pfeiff]

i swear to God Alex Turner is Dracula. nobody has ever been this close to real life Count Von Count

[craig @d_pfeiff]

Holy SHit arctic monkeys were absolutely elemental

[craig @d_pfeiff]

SUBLIME #Barbie

[craig @d_pfeiff]

@LEVITATION psych fest was sick except y'all had the master volume at like 30%. Couldn't hear any vocals for anyone, took the energy out of all the sets

[LEVITATION @LEVITATION]

.@crumbtheband melting our minds on the Willie stage! Toro Y Moi up next!

Photos by Samantha Tellez & Pooneh Ghana

[ClickHole @ClickHole]

It's just true.