Thelma Fleitas

Soy paraguaya, me crié en Nueva York. Productora audiovisual y cineasta. Socialista y feminista. She/her/ella. There is nothing as easy, as lucky, or free.

[Thelma Fleitas @tflei]

It’s never too late to start all over again.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

The ethnic cleansing of Gaza is now official policy: No Palestinians will be allowed to live in N. Gaza https://t.co/hFQEvKl8RP

[Thelma Fleitas @tflei]

If you ever met a wealthy Latino who emigrated to the US, you can 90% of the time accurately assume their family did some fucked up shit in their home country, or at the very least, they're quite conservative and hateful.

[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.

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

from god’s lips to your ear

[Jesús Arroyo 🦇 @JesusArroyoPsiC]

No le falta razón.

[throwbacks @solelynostalgia]

He took the substance

[Thelma Fleitas @tflei]

@GUSSRSM Todo esto para decirles que Josie y yo crecimos juntas, le conocí a mis 18 años, y me acompañó en todo. Era mi guía, yo la cuidé, ella me cuidó. La voy a seguir amando y extrañando el resto de mi vida. My girl 🤍

[Thelma Fleitas @tflei]

Hace años ya que dejé de usar redes sociales para hacer publicas todas mis opiniones (bc this joint is a shithole) pero aquí uno que no es ni medio hot take: el duelo que hacemos las personas para nuestras mascotas fallecidas no debería darnos tanta culpa -

[Thelma Fleitas @tflei]

@GUSSRSM Es eso, es perder a tu “hijo” llamese (antes que empiecen a gritar) pero de una manera más tangible, es perder un miembro de tu familia que forma parte de tu día a día. Corresponde un duelo, y no debería de generar vergüenza ni pena.

[Thelma Fleitas @tflei]

Plz mi mes preferido del mes ya tiene que arrancar 🎃

[Thelma Fleitas @tflei]

Springfield I am so sorry to hear that they’re eating your dogs and your cats

[m @l4ylagotme]

watching good cinema is supposed to make u an empathetic person not a glorified pretentious jerk, if your consumption of good art doesn't make you a person who understands people and the world better it's pointless