fault sama

I draw, play video games, live in canada

[fault sama @Fault_Sama]

Well my followers

It’s been an interesting 14 years here but in light of everything I really should stop using this platform and delete the app off my phone

I’ll leave this up as an archive but for now I’ll be more active on
https://t.co/dIUxLb35Gs
https://t.co/acI45uUyU4

[fault sama @Fault_Sama]

https://t.co/dIUxLb35Gs last chance!!

[fault sama @Fault_Sama]

For real? For real this time?

[fault sama @Fault_Sama]

(Just about the only thing I still use twitter for is looking for people posting their blue sky links anyway)

[📕 @SwampCommunist]

I feel like they set Dragonball in Maoist China for literally no reason and never really did anything with it

[KIM KITSURAGI @KitsuragiBot]

"Sunrise, Parabellum. Sunrise, Prepare-for-War. It's an old revolutionary saying."

[Hex / Paige ✨ @TheBase16]

THE ONLY WAY TO LOAD THE DICE IS TO KEEP ON FIGHTING

[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.

[fault sama @Fault_Sama]

(To be perfectly clear, the whole electoral system is stupid. The electoral college is stupid. The two-party system is stupid. It’s all a big farce.
It just seems like the Democrats have become much less adept at negotiating that broken system, and so the cracks are showing)

[fault sama @Fault_Sama]

(I hope the Democratic Party collapses tbh.
They are hopelessly out of touch with their voters and their decision-making is entirely based in… magical thinking.
Political theatre and establishment cronyism are clearly more important to them than actually winning elections.)

[ryan k @ryankeeton]

playing around with palette, do you prefer #1 or #2?

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

[NRC Gray @nrcgray]

Another lady knight I sketched this afternoon:

[VIKARE @vikare06]

The grotesque british fantasy "Jabberwocky" (1977) directed by Terry Gilliam, with Michael Palin

[Kabewski @Kabooski01]

Thinking about just how hard Wizard Daffy went.....

[fault sama @Fault_Sama]

:^)

[fault sama @Fault_Sama]

For real? For real this time?

[Blazemalefica ☀️🌙 @blazemalefica]

My patrons requested I immortalize the low poly rey dau creature

[Aleriia_V (Lera) @Aleriia_V]

Jessica Rabbit🐰🌹