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alice probert. heavy vehicle technician
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[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.

[Rania @umyaznemo]

If you don't know, it's because YOU don't want to know!

[🍉🍉🍉 @proberting]

@caughtedhanded I've said it before and I'll say it again VVG would have thought this ate

[🍉🍉🍉 @proberting]

@jeffeelme 👁️😖

[SLUG @generalslug]

why are you as a man letting country roads take you home

[Meg Stalter @megstalter]

Addicted to Kohl’s cash

[🍉🍉🍉 @proberting]

@AirBuddha Legend behaviour!!!!! This lad is destined for BIG THINGS!!!!!

[rhiannon blake @rhirhibeee]

my bf in the hallway at 8pm on a random tuesday night:

[🍉🍉🍉 @proberting]

@jeffeelme We’re so the same

[🍉🍉🍉 @proberting]

@BAMJlAER U should bookmark David harbour for a future era

[L’Apey @ouiouiapey]

Sometimes when no one is around I do the funny John Lennon walk

[MakeFenerbahceGreatAgain @makefbgreatagn]

@liliandaisies

[🍉🍉🍉 @proberting]

@BAMJlAER Um!

[🍉🍉🍉 @proberting]

@WillCDaly @hugeiftrue Ha ha that’s what I’m talking About! And hey thanks for remembering yeah pretty exciting, big things in the works here #bigthingsintheworkshere

[🍉🍉🍉 @proberting]

@WillCDaly @hugeiftrue Hey Willo if I can cal you that great fucking tweet mate you don’t see enough of it on the internet these days #hugeiftrue Am I right! Anyway how the bloody hell have you been mate

[🍉🍉🍉 @proberting]

@BAMJlAER @jeffeelme Just to keep u guys in the loop I got a notif that someone favourited mine last week and I have to assume that’s the king for me

[lionsgate @Lionsgate]

a date idea: lying in bed while u show me the twilight fan-fiction u wrote in 2009