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[somwon @Jeffnowmos]

@TheExtremeMusi1 They named their members? Weird

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@doinkpatrol Zverev wins a lot but his matches are always dull to watch. Bland playing style

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@BeatlesEarth Somebody do a gif of it spinning
Not me I don't know how

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@peterdaou No lie, I recently had an argument with someone who thought the ACA(Obamacare) was socialism

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@notnotnuanced Two other matches going on.
Ridiculous. I'm not tuning in to listen to talking about tennis

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@daveweigel Does Jake Holmes or Bert Jansch get a mention? The plagiarism on the first 2 albums is ridiculous. Nevertheless I like them, great stuff when they learned to write

[somwon @Jeffnowmos]

@SouthernKeeks Pray tell what is a subject that isn't 'so stupid as politics'?

I'll never understand this 'we fundamentally disagree on reality and life and death issues but we share DNA so here's your Christmas present!' attitude. You're crazy.

[somwon @Jeffnowmos]

@kept_simple He thinks Josh Hawley actually cares about the working class. Really

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@WadeTurnbull What do you want them to do, just pack up and go home?
Do YOU offer anything other than snark?

[somwon @Jeffnowmos]

I don't want to watch this movie
How do I turn it off?

[Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff]

Anyone who blames “the left” for Harris losing is an idiot

[Janie Danger 🥂 @Wifesucker]

wait so being against genocide is electorally viable???

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Kamala Harris didn't lose because she's a woman or because she's black.

She lost because if your donor-rigged political and media system limits the choice to two hardline neoliberal candidates, with anything else denounced as 'communism', the most hardline, neoliberal candidate will have an edge.

Over time, the system just keeps moving further to the hardline, neoliberal right. You can't stop that relentless shift by voting for one of the two symptoms of your diseased political system.

You have to rise up against the diseased system itself.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

I’m seeing people talk about the worldwide trend of countries moving right, and I think that has to be largely understood as the failure of neoliberalism. As liberal parties move right they stop delivering for people and find themselves in political no mans land.

[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.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

It is more important to look at why Trump was allowed to run, after committing sedition and a number of other crimes to which he confessed, than why he was able to win.

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

Don’t you dare blame Palestinians/Palestinian-Americans/Arabs/Arab-Americans. Here are some worthy targets for your ire (add your own below):
*Biden
*Harris
*genocide
*Bill Clinton/sending him to Michigan
*Ritchie Torres/sending him to Michigan
*Liz Cheney
*Courting Liz Cheney
*Netanyahu
*Biden not dropping out earlier
*not having a primary
*Matthew Miller

[somwon @Jeffnowmos]

@NoraGirl19 @HorrorGorl Where I am, not a drop since September...

[somwon @Jeffnowmos]

@HorrorGorl Not as much anymore.