pato

wheelin and dealin

[rosie @therosieum]

this is insane.

exactly what i wrote about.

@nypost you should be ashamed

[rosie @therosieum]

https://t.co/F2G1usjT2E

[prance @bocxtop]

nyc swung right in the presidential election but just nominated a Muslim socialist for mayor. this country isn't getting more rightwing, people are just fed up with cowards who don't stand for anything or care about making anyone's life better

[Merrick 🦂 @punishedmother]

Hasan Piker was correct when he talked about young men being constantly flooded with right wing propaganda in all digital spaces they spend time in. The right wing propaganda machine is absolutely enormous and it has a GRIP on them. We need a solution to that, like, yesterday

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[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.

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

Scathing statement from Bernie Sanders on the election results

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them…”

[pato @notpatio]

@lacroixboi6969 looking for mommies

[pato @notpatio]

@lacroixboi6969 subscribe

[pato @notpatio]

@scarrrots i thought i said no phones in the can…

[pato @notpatio]

spent 140 on a trashcan because i have priorities

[Chris Williamson @CWilliamson44]

Y’all know what time it is!!! The 21st of September baby!!!

[pato @notpatio]

Upper management is the kingpin of bullshit jobs

[pato @notpatio]

@scarrrots @classicallyabby why is benny’s sister bussin

[pato @notpatio]

@theratbasher in any case: fuck conservative hogs

[pato @notpatio]

@theratbasher oooooooooooh I see I see

so you’re saying make pro-choice have the negative connotation as opposed to pro-life

fuck them kids ofc, but wouldn’t that imply that fetuses are alive after conception, the opposite being a main argument for the pro choice side?

[pato @notpatio]

can’t tell if not giving a shit about how i look is a sign of strength or a sign of depression