Fayola Bostic

Freelance technical copywriter. B2B content and copywriting for businesses that sell complex products and services.

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Allyuh. I've been sick every other week since the bosslady started daycare. I absolutely am not looking forward to these foreign germs that are about to land for carnival. 😩

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@tenilleclarke1 "Demonizing"? I need people to be so for real.

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@ramit In what world are the 2 separate?

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@bungarsargon Batya, your trolling is next level 🤭

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@MajinMoe @BreakingBrown @QueenzFlip American descendants of slavery. But more accurately it's descendants of American slavery. If you are an American descendant of slavery elsewhere in the Americas (Brazil, Caribbean), they don't mean you.

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@tenilleclarke1 My biggest take away is that the TTPS needs to strip us of our constitutional rights to fight crime and they didn't tell us what would determine when the SOE would be lifted.

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'Crime fighting measure' doesn't seem to meet the high bar for declaring a state of emergency. And exactly how will we know the 'emergency' is over?

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@buhdahwee Baby Frida my guy.

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@thedailybeast Not yall calling Bozoma Garcelle in the caption of the image with Dorit and Erika.

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@TheCinesthetic Then. Now. Forever.

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"Decide the type of person you want to be.

Prove it to yourself with small wins."

-@JamesClear

[Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب @FadhelKaboub]

The case for debt cancellation and the responsibility of the credit rating agencies in Africa's debt crisis. I explain it in 95 seconds. Take a listen 👇🏼

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@SkinCareBully They definitely don't. But she got 14M fewer votes than Biden. Some dems definitely stayed home. Maybe she would have turned them out with a better stance on Gaza and not campaigning with Cheny or talking about Republicans in her cabinet.

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@carolinerenard_ What this tells me is that she need to be more progressive since she was going to be thought of like that anyway. Progressive policies are popular. The term is not.

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[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.

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@bungarsargon I agree that inept Dems have lost the working class. What I don't understand is what the Republicans offer that is appealing. Tax cuts for businesses? Fewer regulations? Tariffs? Which proposed economic policy appeals to workers?

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@mikedennymike @natlawyerchic I think the opposite is true and she did too much to appeal to the right. She tried to win over people who would never have voted for her instead of people who might have.

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@iamMelsmith It was the confidence for me. My whole inside cringed.

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@KevOnStage I'm your lady - Celine Dion. Our Haitian/Jamaican queen.

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@StephRamlogan Everywhere. I married my first bf. He was definitely not my first break up.