Got called an idiot who makes stuff up in a thread today with a video debunking some stuff I said in a video about Elena, let's check it out shall we.
Important to remember you shouldn't believe everything you see in a random video on the internet.
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I am admittedly very upset. I’ve had my moment of panic and I’m sure that more will come. But to the utmost of my ability the only choice I have, and have ever had, is to live one day at a time. Today is Wednesday. It’s right on time, so not everything has gone wrong.
To any LGBT audience members in my audience, please don't hurt yourself because of tonight. Things worth living for still exist and will continue to exist, even if it looks dire right now.
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.
Despair is the liquor of the enemy. Of oppression. Abstain from it. As always, at the end of the day we only have one another.
Empathy, community, and education will be key moving forward. We will need each other now more than ever. Organize, educate, uplift. Love you all 🫶🏾
You're not gonna die. Because tomorrow you will be alive. And you will make a pledge to get stronger every day. And you will keep that pledge. You will bleed through honor and discipline. And you will become so strong that they may never threaten you. You are going to do this.
Have a lot on my mind but no matter what, I will keep fighting, not just for myself but for my friends. They are all I have and we need each other more than ever. Don’t ever forget that.
Its valid to let out frustrations that things didn't go the way you wanted, but try not to wallow in it for too long.
It can feel so debilitating and terrible, but I promise you that you don't deserve to dig yourself into a miserable spiral.
Gotta move on, even tho it hurts.