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[Elihu @EliSoltes]

Eliwho am I

[ErgotLoaf @ergotloaf]

Im feeling it chat

[Tal @talankori]

@PokerPerry1 about to watch rogue one again just to feel something

[Elihu @EliSoltes]

@talankori Down

[Tal @talankori]

missed half of bibi’s set cause they weren’t letting me leave the scientology building

[Ally Sammarco @Ally_Sammarco]

This paragraph says everything.

[Mr. Beat @beatmastermatt]

If the Democratic Party wants to survive, it must embrace populism.

[Merrick 🦂 @punishedmother]

Hasan Piker was correct when he talked about young men being constantly flooded with right wing propaganda in all digital spaces they spend time in. The right wing propaganda machine is absolutely enormous and it has a GRIP on them. We need a solution to that, like, yesterday

[Guilty as Slade? ✨🤌🏼 @Jesse_bslade]

this legit must be how katniss felt when they made her do the hunger games a second time

[onion person @CantEverDie]

the country didn’t “move far right”, trump got less votes than he did in 2020. democrats just completely fumbled their coalition and alienated entire bases of voters

[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.

[Liv @Liv_Agar]

RFK is going to become the head of the cdc and hes going to abolish the use of germ theory

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

The Democratic Party establishment will learn nothing, no one will pay. They’re as corrupt as they are vengeful, they’ll cling to their lucrative Dem Party sinecures like pitbulls clamped on a baby’s neck. If 2016 is any indicator, they’ll unleash vengeance to blot out the shame.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Want an example of a broken system? Florida DIDN’T “reject” the proposal to include a right to abortion in the constitution — they voted 58.2% in favor of abortion rights. But it needed 60% to pass, so it failed WITH A MAJORITY.

Can’t imagine what Florida women must be thinking.

[Lily Lynch @lilyslynch]

There will be zero introspection. Liberal narcissism dictates that it must always be someone else's fault. They will scapegoat minorities who failed to fall in line, blame Russia, blame misogyny, blame "irrational" voters who choose candidates based on "emotion" – anything to avoid looking at their own record of failure. They are congenitally incapable of self-criticism.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

even if kamala barely wins democrats need to recognize that being moderate and attaching themselves to neocons is going to cook this country completely

[JAY ✰ @jpgxjayy]

I don’t think yall understand how bad this is. Everything that’s been fought for across decades….gone.

[Justin @jdabre11]

45% from Latinos while running on a massive mass deportation campaign. I just don't get it man.