andy_faz

One of the greatest players to represent the Reds ❤️ Have a brilliant birthday, @officialbarnesy 🥳

Bezos saw it coming & did what he needed to do. Who knows what comes next but this now is oligarchy. It’s the cojoining of state power & business interests. It’s 90s Russia. It’s the chaos before the crackdown. It’s Musk & Thiel & every cryptobro chancer in Silicon Valley

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.

I know this is aphex twin updates but jesus christ

Just read the insights of Jeff Bezos in his opinion piece in The Post. I wasn't going to join 200,000 others and cancel my subscription because doing so won't hurt Bezos -- he paid more for his yachts than his newspaper -- and, yes, the Post newsroom where good people, and some friends still labor continues providing meaningful journalism. But, my god, this man's insipid defense of his own transparent cowardice is provoking. I cancelled. I wasn't going to do it. I probably shouldn't, and certainly, if this technobrat oligarch ever releases his grip on what needs to be an independent newsroom and editorial board, indifferent to the financial positions of its publisher, then I'll return. But this kind of abuse of a public trust by a publisher is unacceptable.

@Guysley @MySportsUpdate Amen brother 💪🏻💪🏻

@MySportsUpdate @andy_faz 🔥🔥

The #Seahawks will wear their AWESOME 90s-era throwback uniforms on Sunday vs. the Denver Broncos.

shit band many fans

Bigots who’ve built entire careers inciting precisely the evil we’re witnessing did not ‘warn’ of it. The only honest ‘warnings’ came from people who explained what would happen if we kept giving racist liars newspaper columns, TV & radio slots & season tickets for Question Time.

Never even liked tennis anyway.

@kylesockwell Seoul vibes

what the **** just happened

@Propulsion_Swim This be how

22.28 out 24.12 back How. How. Won by over a second, PAN?!?!?! I have no words

@pullbuoy Unbelievable is right

Behind Pan who was a country mile ahead silver went to a fast finishing Kyle in 47.48 and David Popovici is in 47.49 - a winning margin of 1.08 is frankly ludicrous

@sharrond62 Brought back memories of Ben Johnson in Seoul

Incredible 0.4 World Record for Zhanle Pan China 🇨🇳 in Mens 100 freestyle to finish off a sensational night in the pool with 2 wins from home favourite Leon Marchand & Katie Ledecky’s historic 12th gold … the French raised the roof : twice!

Never in my life will I understand how a debate on TV could mean more than an insurrection on the capital

Hear that? That’s the sound of “F— Joe Biden” bumper stickers being scraped off 10 million Ford F-150s.

God wanted Donald Trump to live so he can lose to a black woman.

The gracelessness of every leading Republican, especially but not only Trump, at Biden’s decision is breathtaking. At a moment like this you acknowledge service, duty and common loyalty to country if nothing else. They truly are a lost party in thrall to a cult.