What I am saying is that...having hope that a system will do the opposite of what it was designed to do, if only you try hard enough, is not particularly useful. I'd rather have clarity, personally.

So I've been seeing a lot of people saying that Mamdani's victory is good because it gives people hope, and like...I'm not convinced that's necessarily a good thing. Giving people false hope that *this* politician will be different, this one won't eventually give in to the power of capital

If institutions and procedures cannot help human beings, they should be ignored or abolished. No institution or procedure should be defended for its own sake.

So now can we be done having parasocial relationships with politicians? They are tools. They should be backed at the ballot box when necessary and criticized liberally in public. But not a single one of them needs uncritical public support and not a single one of them is above reproach.

A little jealous that Chicago's getting snow, while here in Boston we're just getting gray, depressing rain.

Welp, time to get back out there and try to help each other survive.

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The news in the government doesn't change what I'm doing. I'm still working on getting this food bank up. 💅

These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.

"Be less critical of politicians" is...sure a take to have in these times. (re: the substack piece about how leftists should stop criticizing Mamdani, lolol.)

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All hope drawn from politicians is ultimately false hope. The only true hope in this world is the hope we create together Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I'm glad people are waking up now, but it should not have taken this. Y'all should have woken up to how the dems handled COVID. To how they handled prosecuting Trump. To how they handled a genocide.

Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.

The status quo delivered us to this moment of fascist acceleration. As Democratic elites in Washington keep proving, they have nothing to offer but behavior that abets and fosters more of the same. Their trajectory is as fixed as the right's.

Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus

Mamdani like yesterday stated he was ok with the NYPD’s terrorist division, which will inevitably be used against activists and Antifascists of any variety, yet that is “beyond criticism.” Social Dems and others again repeating the same mistakes from the last century, even before. 🫠

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You know, really not loving this "in order to be in good faith as an anarchist you have to work with the government and not critique Mamdani" thing I'm seeing right now! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

50 antifascists disrupted a Charlie Kirk vigil in Boston and got it shut down an hour early, in spite of 50501 disavowing the action.

The system is designed to sustain itself at all costs

when democrats want to stop something (single payer healthcare) they stop it. when they don't (fascist dictatorship) they don't

The system is what the system does. The suffering is the point. The dems are complicit.

this is an EMERGENCY

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

They were willing to hold out while SNAP recipients went hungry but the FAA starts cancelling flights and they cave

HEY BOSTON PEEPS! If you live in/near Dorchester and you have the means to help a family who's fighting the SNAP struggle, please DM me and I'll connect you with a known local org that's matching people up. (IDK if they want to be shouted out so until I hear back imma play it like this.)

Here’s why it’s MUTUAL Aid: - Street vendors win bc they make money & don’t get kidnapped - Food-insecure ppl win bc they get 250 tamales! 🫔 - Bike peeps win bc they’ve found where their community needs them to be & it’s awesome - And everyone wins when la migra loses!

Establishment Democrats aren’t afraid of the GOP. They simply agree with the GOP in almost all the ways that count. And it is in those ways they do the most harm to the poor, to the sick, and to immigrants.

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so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.

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How can we interpret it any other way?

Caving now means they literally did it for nothing and caused harm to people for nothing. Just absolute failure on every level.

These motherfuckers

addicted to losing and throwing the most vulnerable under the bus

Chuck Schumer is a freaking shande every day. Grow a backbone dude. Our people have dealt with millennia of hatred and pogroms and genocides. You can deal with Donald Trump and the Republicans when people's food and healthcare are at stake.

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

I'm deeply sorry to everyone who is going to suffer for this. Truly, truly sorry.