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I'm moving on. @carojo.bsky.social Insta: blackspiderstudio 🧵@blackspiderstudio

@TheRealThelmaJ1 Please come over to Blue sky Meemaw!!

Your tweets are now training data for anyone who pays Leon

@SketchesbyBoze Yaaayyyyy! 😍

I'm not leaving twitter but I'll be cross-posting at the other place if you happen to be there and not here

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I actually don’t feel as fine as R.E.M. led me to believe I would

Same here in Canada, same everywhere else in the world. They're a cancer to society.

These are the words I need to hear from @RadioFreeTom Thank you.

@richsignorelli See you there! Signing off here soon...

See you over there. @richardsignorelli2023?invite=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.net/@richardsignor…

@misterp55 @jasonhickel Maybe we need a different word than "socialism". Because that is poison to rural, middle class voters. Remember, Harris was repeatedly reviled as a "communistsocialistmarxist". And if I'm not mistaken, fascist got tucked in there as well at some point.

As well as acknowledging that Liberalism had its chance, and failed, I think we need to redefine the alternative, "Socialism". For many, the definition harks back to what they hear about life in the 70s. Yes the core, an alternative to capital domination, is still present but the world/planet/nature have moved on and we either need a new word or to redefine the S word as looking to rebalance and maintain the health & wellbeing of humans and a liveable planet.

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.

@Will_Bunch For those of us jumping ship, where else can we find you @Will_Bunch ?

Holy bleep I lost like 2000 followers today

Greatness, said Pangloss, is very dangerous, according to the report of all the philosophers... I know this too, Candide says. We must cultivate our garden. 🌱🌷

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@atrupar Apparently the bots are leaving. They've done their job.

Noticing an absolutely huge and perhaps unprecedented exodus from this platform today. I'm down more than 10,000 followers. And while I'm not above a bad tweet or two, I don't think it's anything I posted.

@Limeylizzie I will look for you on Threads. Really unable to focus or process much right now.

I suspect that Musk will merge this app with Truth Social , and it’s just going to be a huge right wing echo chamber, so I will start moving over to Threads , I’ve tried BlueSky but it’s meh.

"They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs" proved a more effective message than "Let me help you buy your first house."

I might unfollow everyone on Twitter except @RadioFreeTom