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[kev @kevinknee_]

@MikePlunkett19 @hutchinson @hutchinson this is your audience now?

[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.

[kev @kevinknee_]

@OvinVithanage sandhagen?

[kev @kevinknee_]

@undercoverbetz @danawhite @nelkboys @happydad r u srs

[kev @kevinknee_]

@_aaron_golden_ @Spotify late today. i was getting worried

[kev @kevinknee_]

@kimlu667 me marquis and stanley fr

[kev @kevinknee_]

@MarshallDM lisan al-gaib

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

Sorry, this is not "looting." This is people who are being starved and systematically killed off by Israel's onslaught, desperately trying to find food for themselves, their children, for pregnant women.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The IDF just committed one of the worst massacres in modern history. But if you rely on US media, you wouldn't even know that from their headlines.

[kev @kevinknee_]

@kimlu667 i’d pay thousands for that blue juul

[NO CONTEXT anthony fantano @theneedledrop]

if your religion needs defending from a silly music video, it probably…sucks?

[kev @kevinknee_]

@kimlu667 this is insane because i’m literally the smartest person you know

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

THIS IS THE MOST INSANE THING IVE EVER SEEN, WHY IS THE US AGAINST CONDUCTING AN INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION FOR THE AL AHLI HOSPITAL BOMBING?

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Human rights investigators have shared new information with Channel 4 News that they say casts doubt on some aspects of Israel’s account of the Gaza hospital explosion.

@alextomo reports.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Now is not the time to talk about a ceasefire. We must support Israel in efforts to eliminate the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered innocent men, women, and children.

Hamas does not want peace, they want to destroy Israel. We can talk about a ceasefire after Hamas is neutralized.

[Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) @ashleyfeinberg]

i don't know how anyone could have seen images of a palestinian father carrying pieces of his children in two separate bags and somehow think the moral choice is to call for more

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

Piers has brought on so many guests to destroy him on Palestine this week that we may have to start considering him an ally