Millennial Expert #ACAB

eat your pheasant, drink your wine 🌈 🇻🇳

[ellory smith @ellorysmith]

When my dad got cancer they tried to kick him off his insurance so as he was dying his life was paperwork and phone calls 👍

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

Not even Trump did this - it's been almost 30 years since the last time a president did. Leave it to Biden.

[emma @emma_____weaver]

@StiglitzHugoSGT Hope every other country keeps it up too!!!! 😍😍😍

[emma @emma_____weaver]

Amazing keep it up everybody!!!!!!

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

“Violence isn’t the answer” unless you’re Israel, the American government, the police, military-trained vigilantes, or a for-profit healthcare system.

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

I knew a lot of men hated women, but I didn't realize how many women hated women.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Centrists hate this one simple trick to stop rising fascism: redistribute wealth and end wars.

[Arielle Angel @ArielleLAngel]

Say what you will about the GOP, they saw where their base was headed and the party followed them. The Democrats have showed nothing but contempt for their base. And here we are.

[Maureen Murphy @maureenclarem]

Scratch a liberal and you’ll find a …

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

CNN analyst says Democrats should have listened to Bernie Sanders when he said the focus should be “on bread and butter issues.”

“A lot of people attacked him for that, saying, well, are you saying cultural politics don’t matter? He wasn’t saying that.”

[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.

[itzy binks ohtani 💙🇲🇽 @theitzybinks]

sandy hook was the indicator for me that people do not care about anything

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Kamala Harris proudly said: "I will appoint Republicans to my cabinet. Trump supporters will have a seat at the table when I am President".

that was her pitch. She went on a tour with Liz Cheney, touting the endorsement of Dick Cheney. That was her campaign. Look at the result

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

Once again, insane that it’s just received wisdom that ya gotta pivot to the right to get conservative voters. They already have a party and you do it at the cost of your base. It’s not even complicated, it’s just dumb

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

There are around 200,000 Muslim voters in Michigan. Trump is currently leading in that state by around 120,000 votes. Was it worth it? Was it worth it to send Ritchie Torres to Michigan to antagonize Muslim and Arab voters? Was it worth it asking Clinton to insult their faith?

[GoliathFan1952 @ByYourLogic]

they sent Liz Cheney on a 3 state tour. they sent Kathy Hochul to PA! THEY SENT RITCHIE TORRES TO MICHIGAN TO START FLOSSING IN FRONT OF PEOPLE WHO HAD LOST HALF THEIR FAMILIES!

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

Biden/Harris had House and Senate majorities. They increased police funding, didn't codify Roe v. Wade, and didn't raise the minimum wage.

Now solid red states are outflanking them to the left, achieving the opposite of all three.

[Eyes Left @EyesLeftPod]

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[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

VIDEO: Columbia University Alma Mater statue dripping in red paint on the first day of fall classes as students protest against the university’s continue support for genocide.

Provided anon.