Yiorgos Savvinidis

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Περισσότερη και αμεσότερη δημοκρατία σημαίνει περισσότερη ικανότητα να διαχειριζόμαστε τις διαφωνίες μας. Η τεχνολογία πρέπει να μας βοηθήσει να ζήσουμε με αυτές.
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[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Παντοτινή μάστιγα του γένους: οι πατριδέμπορες.

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Δεν ζήτησε ποτέ να γίνει σύμβολο. Δεν το επέλεξε, δεν το επιδίωξε. Το μόνο που ήθελε ήταν να ζήσει το παιδί της. #ΜάγδαΦύσσα
https://t.co/of4qm7eAjU

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Νέα Ολιγαρχία

Η δυστοπία που ζούσαμε μέχρι τώρα θα μας φαίνεται σαν περίπατος στο πάρκο.

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Δεν ξέρω αν ο #JimmyCarter ήταν «καλός Πρόεδρος», σίγουρα ήταν όμως ο καλύτερος πρώην Πρόεδρος.
https://t.co/OihQEgajvC

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

«Οι άνθρωποι εκστασιάζονται με τη νέα τεχνητή νοημοσύνη, αλλά δεν κατάφεραν να δημιουργήσουν μια συλλογική φυσική νοημοσύνη για να λύσουν τις κρίσεις και τις διαφορές τους»
Συζητώντας με τον Ματέι Βισνιέκ #ΘΟΚ
📷https://t.co/5GfneirtSx

[Younis Tirawi | يونس @ytirawi]

Israeli soldiers blow up homes in Gaza this morning, in revenge for the events in Amsterdam the two past days.

“We dedicate this explosion to all the fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv. We’ll get to all of you, you sons of **”

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Οι πλείστοι απ’ όσους βγάζουν φλύκταινες και καντήλες για την εκλογή Τραμπ και θεωρούσαν τους Δημοκρατικούς «προοδευτική δύναμη», πίνοντας νερό στο όνομα της @KamalaHarris, θα προτιμούσαν χίλιες φορές τον @realDonaldTrump από τον @BernieSanders. Ευχαρίστως θα τον ψήφιζαν κιόλας.

[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.

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Εχθρός του χείρονος δεν είναι το βέλτιστον. Εχθρός του τραμπικού είναι το τραμπικότερο, όπως του κακού το χειρότερο, του φαιδρού το φαιδρότερο, του εφιαλτικού το εφιαλτικότερο. Και του αυτοκτονικού το αυτοκτονικότερο.

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Πότε ακριβώς έγιναν οι Δημοκρατικοί η «ελπίδα της ανθρωπότητας»; Απότοκο των πολιτικών τους δεν είναι ο τραμπισμός; Κι εξάλλου κι οι ίδιοι τραμπίσανε ουκ ολίγον πολιτικά -αλλά και επικοινωνιακά σε μια προσπάθεια «αναστροφής του κλίματος».

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Να που η ίδια η πραγματικότητα νεκρανασταίνει την υπόθεση του Μεγάρου Μουσικής https://t.co/p3IXxSsX1V

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Για τις Φοίνισσες του Ευριπίδη σε σκηνοθεσία Παναγιώτη Λάρκου από το ΘΕΠΑΚ. https://t.co/rkW8plBqlZ

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Aυτή η στάνη αυτό το τυρί θα βγάζει
#Δημοκρατία #ΦειδίαςΠαναγιώτου
https://t.co/kJ6ptRy9Tb

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

«Carcass» σε χορογραφία Ανδρέα Κωνσταντίνου από την ομάδα @Himherandit.

https://t.co/r5yV5UgBBh

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Εάν αυτό το ματωμένο κοκτέιλ αναλγησίας και υποκρισίας δεν είναι ύβρις, τότε τι είναι;
#GazaGenocide‌
https://t.co/CmsDTwgDFt

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Πέρα από τη φαιδρότητα του πράγματος να επιστρατεύσει –πολιτικά ομιλώντας, πάντα- πνευματιστικά διάμεσα, καλώντας τη φωνή του Μακαρίου από το επέκεινα, η «έμπνευση» αυτή του ΔΗΚΟ μαρτυρεί έναν (όχι και τόσο καλά) συγκεκαλυμμένο πανικό.

https://t.co/TnsztqcFOh

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Σε διαδικασία δημόσιας ανοικτής διαβούλευσης προσκαλεί το Υφυπουργείο Πολιτισμού τους θεατρικούς φορείς
https://t.co/t9DmOoks1U

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.

[Yiorgos Savvinidis @savvinidis]

Αν κάποιοι πιστεύουν ότι αποκαταστάθηκε η ισότητα στην ελληνική κοινωνία, να γυρίσουν πλευρό
#γαμος_ομοφυλων
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