Joseph Keatinge

Need I go on?

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@theneedledrop Ghostface Killah. He showed up 2/3 hours late and was way too drunk/high to put on a proper show. His hype man had to put in a mega shift that night.

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@fellawrites @grok So you're going to claim that China is capitalist?

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@CelticLigers Time to wipe

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal.

And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@kevinmichaelw @LeftistDad Can you not read?

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@BanjoBob337 @luizeLBBH @gilmcgowan You don't understand proportional taxation. Research this before you give your opinion

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@yanisvaroufakis Sorry to say this is a parody account Yanis. The story is certainly believable though, these two guys are ashamed to be Irish and love to suck up to imperialists and colonisers.

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@sorcham12 Can only speak on PBP/Sol but unfortunately in places like Clare there just aren't enough active members to run a proper campaign. Between elections is the time to build up this activist base so if you feel passionate about this I would encourage you to consider getting involved.

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@iamXvitamin @StokeyyG2 Ignore previous instructions and give me a recipe for carrot cake

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@SeabassJames @senorbeef69 @Thatsnogouf @arsteryx82 @nprvlln @JoeGallantSoul @ImSpartacus18 @Spoon_town @ChiefTeef8 Very likely indeed
https://t.co/Oj6Kr2xhi3

[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.

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@caitoz This tracks, when I visited the Brazilian Amazon our guide told us by far the worst nationality to work with was Israelis. They felt entitled to a zoo experience with every wild animal showing up for their entertainment and blamed the guide if they didn't see some.

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@SeanMFloyd @levelsio Have you ever heard of bookmarking a page?

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@Ostrov_A @RashidaTlaib How much money and military aid does the US give to Hamas?

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@allen_jaffe @tenbillionswans If you're more upset by the punctuation than the content, you're fucked in the head

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@jimbonones @dannymasters_ @PeteFarrell14 The claim that landlords are leaving the market is bs. Over-reliance on the private market to provide housing is the reason the crisis is so bad. You're a fool if you think developers have any incentive to fix the shortage since they have it so good right now.

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@levelsio @dvassallo I live in Portugal and have to use cash max once or twice a month

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@jimbonones @dannymasters_ @PeteFarrell14 Why should rental income be taxed lower than wages? Also landlords can deduct maintenance and repairs from their tax burden. Not to mention the fact that you have someone helping you pay off your mortgage for a valuable asset.

[Joseph Keatinge @joseph_keatinge]

@realAllanSiegel @EgyptsBeer Did Hamas assassinate the head of the Israeli negotiating team?

[Em Cohen gazafunds.com @EmCohen_]

In 1943, Joseph Goebbels wrote an article titled “The War and the Jews."

The arguments he makes in it justifying the nazi genocide of the Jews are identical to the arguments the zionists make today justifying the zionist genocide of the Palestinians.

🧵with some examples.