Robby Lee Williams (he/him)

This is my shenanigans account
For my real stuff, check out @RobbyLeeWilliam
For my some sketch "comedy" check out @3leftft

[Nicky Reed🇺🇲 @NickyReed1974]

@Ariel_VLLC https://t.co/p3yjYW2YxL

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

I counter with the unspoken grief of never owning a home

[Rick Taylor @OhRick4]

My Aunt called asking about Thanksgiving plans

During the conversation she mentioned she voted for Trump

I told her my home is not open to traitors and I would not go to theirs. I have no space in my life for those who could care less about the United States

Shes upset

FAFO

[Dropout @dropout]

We stand committed as ever to the safety, freedom and lives of the Palestinian people.

We reject antisemitism, Islamophobia, and all forms of bigotry, and welcome all to our platform who treat others with respect, empathy, and human dignity.

[Dropout @dropout]

Since Monday, Dropout has received an unsustainable amount of physical threats to the safety of our staff and existential legal threats to the company.

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

Don’t you dare blame Palestinians/Palestinian-Americans/Arabs/Arab-Americans. Here are some worthy targets for your ire (add your own below):
*Biden
*Harris
*genocide
*Bill Clinton/sending him to Michigan
*Ritchie Torres/sending him to Michigan
*Liz Cheney
*Courting Liz Cheney
*Netanyahu
*Biden not dropping out earlier
*not having a primary
*Matthew Miller

[🌾 Ivan 🌾 @HuskerAlways1]

Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar won re-election by comfortable margins and the rest of the party are fighting for their lives in these states.

Let’s not pretend we don’t know how that happened.🤷🏻

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🇺🇸 Democrats spent 4 years desperately trying to get "moderate" Republicans to break from Trump.

The result? 94% of Republicans voted Trump - exactly the same as in 2020, while Democrat vote dropped.

(Via @CNN)

[Robby Lee Williams (he/him) @RobbysBrainDump]

As a Black man, I'm proud of the turnout. As a Latiné man: ORALE! ESOS PENDEJOS NOS CHINGARON!

[Andre 3004 @Blackkout__]

NC exit polls.

What do you see?

[Andre 3004 @Blackkout__]

Good brother I’m glad you asked. Lemme know what you think.

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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.

[Robby Lee Williams (he/him) @RobbysBrainDump]

Liberals keep telling us to "reach across the aisle," and this is what we were warned about. Reach across the aisle? We aren't even in the fucking room.

[Sky Burkson @skyburkson]

man, its so cool that we dont even have the luxury of not knowing how bad it can be
we’ve been there already, we’ve seen it. a whole swath of this country ended up in the grave because of him.
and that was before he was on deck to be sent to the slammer.
hateful idiot country

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Countless Americans are endangered now on a scale and intensity almost unheard of in modern America. Our first responsibility is to protect these people and resist these forces.