shurjo

michigan state alum

[shurjo @sh0enot]

@tejfbanalytics what font is this? it’s so pretty

[shurjo @sh0enot]

@NFLUKIRE @drewbrees @ScottHanson @NetflixUK live from bangladesh! #NFLonNetflix @NFLUKIRE @drewbrees @ScottHanson

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

The Bates 52-yard game-winner crossed the goalpost near the top. That thing would've been good from 70.

[shurjo @sh0enot]

@SportsAccount @BRlANBRANCH this isn’t branch

[shurjo @sh0enot]

redownloading this app for the election was… certainly a choice, but i’m deleting twitter again cya

[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.

[Eleanora (formerly LeftieStats) 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @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)

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Gone is a genocidal president too hypocritical to admit it. And in comes a genocidal president who wears it as a badge of honor.

[brian @brianonhere]

the leftist position is that people’s positions, even if horrific, have roots in their material reality. the liberal position as best i can tell is that 20-30% of the country has an irredeemably evil soul. i guess im going with the one you could actually do something about.

[shurjo @sh0enot]

@IMissWinning @_MLFootball @BovadaOfficial @Dav1dChabot @LLamorandier @tonydombrowski @GibbsWrld @DumasMike @Notorious_Det @reflog18 @brownsfanuk @gracesporttakes @NatSparbeck @LionsSyndicate nobody’s trying to scare the vikings brother

[Jon Bois @jon_bois]

jared golf should change his name to jared football since he’s been having such an excellent football season

[Brett Kollmann @BrettKollmann]

Dare I say...Jared Goff, MVP frontrunner

[Jon Bois @jon_bois]

i feel like "not like us" was about drake. lots of clues in there

[Jon Bois @jon_bois]

listen i'm definitely a college football casual so this might be a dumb question, but is notre dame losing to a credit union

[shurjo @sh0enot]

@EddyVinckk airline points, i got me my airpod pros at an airport shop

[shurjo @sh0enot]

this charli album fucking hits.