The Penitent Baja Blaster

Three stacked children in a trenchcoat.

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

can't wait for this to be the leftists' fault

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

@Grummz @assassinscreed @elonmusk @Ubisoft As an expert on games failing you would know, right?

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

@PKSubban1 @espn @POTUS @NHL @usahockey Feel ashamed for this

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

Today we are all Italians

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

That's the thing America does. That and football are, like, your two biggest products

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Governor Josh Shapiro comments on the arrest of Luigi Mangione:

“Some attention in this case, especially online, has been deeply disturbing as some have looked to celebrate instead of condemning this killer. […] In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint.”

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

@globeandmail Interesting thought! Follow-up question is there a peanut in your brain?

[The Ginger Swindler @lilydsmith]

if RFK bans diet coke, i will make jan 6 look like a girl scout meeting.

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

Mf'er about to run into Chesterton's Fence headfirst

[⊹₊｡ꕤ Lexi ꕤ˚₊⊹ @Mistas_Hairline]

how i imagine being hit by infinite void feels

[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.

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

@bcmerchant They're all gonna blame progressives and "anti-semite" anti-zionists and land in positions with more power and money than they left

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

On the bright side, excited for more handsome hamburger parties

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

The ghost of Bud Dwyer showing up to Musk tonight, like it's A Christmas Carol

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

@JDSwiggs The deal was, Quebec, that we put up with your nonsense and in exchange every 5-7 years you give us a generational goalie. What the hell

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

I check twitter once every 2 months, see shit like this and immediately turn back.

I'm the twitter groundhog looks like 6 more weeks of fuck this place

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Good morning to my fellow Zionists! Let’s make it a good one.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘BLADE’ has been delayed indefinitely.

The film no longer has a release date.

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

@okgibs I come here every once in a while when I feel good and need to fix that

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

@okgibs Taking her bold plans on how to improve housing nationwide, I see

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

@yourGMJack Gotta suffer for your art, sometimes

[The Penitent Baja Blaster @HoppedUpGaming]

@yourGMJack My card said "Rules for Draw and Stud Poker."

Is that good?