Nalanzu⁷

All or nothing. Overly analytical. She/her. Detail-obsessed. Resistant to cold. Accidental serial killer of plants. You may also have noticed the dog.

[Nalanzu⁷ @Nalanzu]

Just so we're clear, logged-out/new-account stalking of someone's Twitter after one has been blocked and/or sharing the existence of said Twitter account with individuals who would be blocked if they had Twitter = both creepy thing to do and dick move.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Oregon lawmakers have passed a bill that would block private-equity firms from controlling healthcare practices.

The resolution would create the nation’s strictest ban on corporate influence in medicine.

It now heads to Governor Tina Kotek’s desk.

[Nalanzu⁷ @Nalanzu]

Not that I've been active on here, but will be even less so. Will be around on Discord. Have some music.

https://t.co/r4CrxNiH5Q

[Nalanzu⁷ @Nalanzu]

@jroberts332 inquiring minds are VERY CURIOUS

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

in retrospect, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords really might've been a better basis for a system of government.

[Nalanzu⁷ @Nalanzu]

oh, yeah, here we go with our filtering event

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

On the bright side, we now have an answer to the Fermi Paradox

[jxke @jakemorell]

“close the borders, we’re tired of felons walking into this country”

motherfucker you just elected one as the goddamn president of the united states of america

[Nalanzu⁷ @Nalanzu]

@TheJTRO Stay where you are, we're all fucked over here

[James Roberts @jroberts332]

Wise words from a wise friend (on 🔒)

[Nalanzu⁷ @Nalanzu]

this is in fact the correct take

[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.

[Nalanzu⁷ @Nalanzu]

@jroberts332 I mean, he's not WRONG in that first paragraph......

[Nalanzu⁷ @Nalanzu]

Uh, why is @espn showing ads DURING THE FORMULA ONE RACE???????

That's ridiculous. We are MISSING PARTS OF THE RACE for the ads. What the actual f-

[Nalanzu⁷ @Nalanzu]

@Emroyka i miss ouran

[Nalanzu⁷ @Nalanzu]

ps read MTMTE and Lost Light

[Nalanzu⁷ @Nalanzu]

it's been a hot minute since i was on twitter but i have been reminded that jro is reliably v weird on this app and i am here for it

[Nalanzu⁷ @Nalanzu]

@RoseNightshade Once? That's it? I thought it was like twice XDDD

[ally @missmayn]

europe still has $2 coffees and $7 sandwiches and all their restaurant workers make a living wage fuck america bro

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Democrats should introduce a gun control bill called the "The Donald Trump safety and gun control bill" and make republicans vote against it.