elena

only leo to exist

[elena @sighelena]

@semieviIhag yay! happy birthday <3

[elena @sighelena]

he’s my hero for this btw

[yeli @regalsaviour]

he really went 4 for 4💀

[️️ @L1LFAIRY]

I’M GOING TO GET DISGUSTINGLY FINER AND SEXIER IN 2025!!!!!

[elena @sighelena]

this is my last straw

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Chipotle announces they are raising prices by 2% due to inflation.

[elena @sighelena]

ROAD TRIP WHOS WITH ME

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

A Dev Patel look-alike competition will be taking place in San Francisco on Sunday.

[ZAYNA🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE @HorrorHijabi]

Democrats are more mad at third party voters than they are the 68+ million that voted for trump and thats why we keep failing. theyre blaming every single minority even though trump is ahead by 5 million. even if we had every vote from third party it wouldnt make a dent

[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.

[**** @azmiesque]

pay attention to how the moderators speak about palestine (hamas, war, terrorism) and how they speak about ukraine (injustice, sovereignty, civilians)

[୨ৎ @deadacademic]

hello, august.

[elena @sighelena]

guys please… this man is a libra it’s what they do

[Sarah | fan account @cloiskryptonite]

”actors don’t relationship bait like they used to” WELL GLEN POWELL DOES????

[elena @sighelena]

@sickasheaven STOP

[elena @sighelena]

this is going to affect the context of all in which we live in and what came before us :/

[mayka 🍉 @maykamaykaba]

"No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us!" — Marsha P. Johnson

#FreePalestine

[Syahidah 🎨 @syahidahraya]

“why people saying “ALL EYES ON RAFAH”?”

“where is it?”

“what’s happening there?”

🔻 Rafah is located on the border of Egypt & the LAST place for refugees
🔻 everyone in Gaza is displaced in Rafah now (around 1.7 million)
🔻 Israel still attacking Rafah, burnt people alive

[elena @sighelena]

don’t touch this. these movies are sacred to me

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

A reboot of ‘THE MAZE RUNNER’ is in the works.

[elena @sighelena]

@POTUS oh my god can you do something productive jesus christ