Dexter King

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

we both up 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.

[Josh Ellis @jzellis]

OK, let me solve American "economic anxiety" very quickly. I'm gonna sort it out for you in less than ten tweets and then you won't have that excuse anymore. You ready? Here goes.

The cause is capitalism and greed. That's it. Nothing else. Just that.

[Dyylas @DylanDyylas]

Elon Musk is unfit and unqualified to run Twitter.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 BREAKING: Zlatan Ibrahimović has now decided to retire from professional football with immediate effect.

Incredible player, incredible icon. 🦁👋🏻

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Legalize marijuana. Expunge past marijuana convictions. End the failed War on Drugs.

[charlie @chunkbardey]

ppl posting on instagram like “2020 was fucking awful but i made it through” and it’s like 8 pictures of them on vacation

[Dexter King @kingdext_]

@realDonaldTrump

[Dexter King @kingdext_]

Being a pacers fan is just yearly pain

[Tanya Ray Fox @TanyaRayFox]

Does America understand that the NBA bubble is literally just them using the proper isolation, distancing, mask and testing protocols and that if our federal government and state officials had done what the NBA is doing back in March and stuck with it THAT WE’D BE OKAY BY NOW

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

FOURTEEN. TIMES. 🏆

#HeadsUpFACupFinal | @EmiratesFACup

[🩸 @brianboolan]

Imagine taking a nap on the titanic and waking up to this

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

This says it all.

#GeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter #REVOLUTION

[Colin Kaepernick @Kaepernick7]

When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction.

The cries for peace will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance.

We have the right to fight back!

Rest in Power George Floyd

[Dexter King @kingdext_]

A soccer/basketball trick shot @CoachMayerBJPS @noaHaynes

[melanie marshall @minimindy16]

in september, my spanish teacher gave us a project to make a short film about anything of our choosing. my group decided to make our film about an infectious virus spreading, but now it is the time to film and we cant—

bc an infectious virus is spreading...

[Serge Gnabry @SergeGnabry]

London still red.. #FCB

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Our military is larger than these countries combined:

🇨🇳 181 billion
🇸🇦 78 billion
🇷🇺 61 billion
🇮🇳 60 billion
🇬🇧 54 billion
🇫🇷 52 billion
🇯🇵 48 billion
🇩🇪 48 billion
🇰🇷 39 billion
🇧🇷 27 billion
🇮🇹 27 billion

What if we invested in human needs to care for one another instead?

[Dexter King @kingdext_]

@Pacers Brogdon was useless

[Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespn]

Happy New Year, league sources tell ESPN.