madisyn

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[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

the administrations attacks against free speech are clearly coming from a place of weakness, they must present penalties for dissent and strike fear in your hearts. you cannot let them win, we have the numbers and they know this.

[madisyn @scooterstepdad]

@mhammedziad1

[madisyn @scooterstepdad]

@MMydw60280

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@yousefQasem1998

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@rola_almoghrabi @gazafunds @Blaze_Knight95 @cursedchuuya @patfahy23 @iskandrah @KermitHigby

[onion person @CantEverDie]

if democrats want to win ever again they need to stop saying garbage like this immediately

[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.

[Gastronauts @GastronautsShow]

We went ahead and tried to find all the times @BrennanLM has talked about loving heavy meals...enjoy

#Gastronauts

[streetsblogkea @streetsblogkea]

I don't think a lot of people realize it, but St. Louis has *$300 million+* committed to street safety projects in the next three years...and a new mobility plan...and a new land use plan...and a new zoning code...and more coming down the pike. It's nuts.
https://t.co/vKa01uRbAp

[madisyn @scooterstepdad]

@midwestblow

[big pale tone 🤌 🍝 @BigPaleTone]

Can’t believe this is how he is selling people on the idea of a woman president. Smh.

[madisyn @scooterstepdad]

having a ninja creami is life changing. just had a huge ice cream cone for 160cal/20g protein. The vibes are unmatched. no one can hurt me.

[bug girl! @medusasgemss]

i find it comforting to think that somewhere out there, there might be some of my hair strands woven into a birds nest

[Jacob Wysocki @JacobWysocki]

i am chorizo joe if not anything else

[taimur @taimurabdaal]

Hi John, Thx

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