thesocialistfonz

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We need Universal Basic Income right now. That's it. That's the tweet #UBI

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@dorkworldsfair One the 3 stand out tracks from one of her best albums. The others being Love Profusion and Nothing Fails

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This is a really puerile statement from Walker. No one gets there only news from NM. He should have said “we are sorry we should not have covered the story and we will do better in future”. Nothing else was required

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@1989TWIGS It was directed by Mary Lambert

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@PastorAlexLove @TheGreek_1000 yep me too

[Mike D - London, Europe @MikeDLondon]

@wsebag Indeed...

[Leeds+ @LeedsPlusSocial]

The Leeds café changing the lives of people with Down Syndrome… but now facing closure 😲

The charity behind 21 Co. Café has just announced a £30,000 funding shortfall with fears it could be forced to close.

A fundraiser has been setup to help: https://t.co/N7BHg61gZ0
#leeds

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@michelle511 @Inevitablewest @JeremyClarkson @elonmusk 😂

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@Frankpembleton6 @PolitlcsUK haha I meant Reeves but I can see how it could be either

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it really is time to leave Elmo's fascist fiefdom
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[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

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@FishPeopleFC Aerial
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@TPowercrypto @GeorgeMonbiot there's no fucking socialism in the UK, are you on glue?:

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Let’s face it men in America voted against their mothers, their daughters, their sisters, their wives, their aunties, their nieces, their colleagues, their friends. Men voted against a woman and women.

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@MichaelJStern1 And not white

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This. For the UK just replace Democrats with Labour and liberalism with centrism

[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.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Centrists hate this one simple trick to stop rising fascism: redistribute wealth and end wars.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

I've resisted saying this for many years, because it doesn't help. But ... we are so fucked.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

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

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@graceblakeley We are fvcked

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@FilmUpdates Terrible film and homophobic in the extreme

[Sarah James #GetLabourOut #FreePalestine @SJview]

I think we are ALL @RobertSmith of @TheCure right now. #Dispatches #AbolishTheMonarchy #BritainsBiggestBenefitScrougers #FooledBritannia 🇬🇧 🤮

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