Jean Allen

Happy 10 year anniversary to @rocdsa.bsky.social

perfect representation of the vicious asininity of our persecution and the banal mechanisms of its implementation: these regular-ass people, the staff at the dmv, dutifully inflicting whatever absurd degradation they're told, no matter how blatantly, cruelly pointless. would you do that? will you?

@rocdsa.bsky.social reprinted Go Left Young Writer! With an introduction from yours truly

Hymm of the July 26 movement

Where Are They Now?: The Pundits Who Got Iraq Wrong One would think that cheering the U.S. into war in Iraq would have been a career-destroying mistake. Alas...

Back in 2023, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, I did a "where are they now?" article about the pundits who cheered on the U.S. invasion www.readtpa.com/p/where-are-...

Theres a kind of lefty in this country in the hundreds of thousands whos aware of the socialist movement but thinks themselves above all of it and cynically postures that theyre waiting for someone else to build something thats serious enough for them. You gotta get over your ego now

Literally teaming up with Israel to attack Iran makes people treating the pretext with anything but searing contempt all the more ludicrous.

I dont think its dsa people who are pro platner, more extra-dsa lefties vs libs

Based on what I’m seeing at work and with colleagues, it sure seems like USian society really fucked up in creating a culture where people will put in Herculean amounts of effort to avoid admitting someone else knows more than them about any topic.

That said, good talk, im gonna go back to work.

You keep going to jokes instead of arguing your position.

I know you should probably attend that event and read more Mao if you think hes interchangeable with all the other positions you've described.

If your problem is with communists, MLs, maoists, and you dont want them invited to chapters, dont want their ideas discussed, you can say that and I will disagree with that, but also its too late! People are being convinced and instead of understanding why youre trying to call the manager

But brg isnt a nazi! Hes not a khmer rouge supporter or a Bosnian genocide denier or any of those things! Youre freely associating those because it makes the position seem obvious but you cant go further than saying people are advocating for authoritarian regimes

So what are the ideologies and events that should never be discussed in any DSA meeting? List them out

I think the issue is youre bad at articulating yourself munin and hide behind negative statements and badjacketing

You keep doing this thing where youre trying to sarcastically portray positions you disagree with instead of saying what you think should happen.

Youre getting lost in the sauce and dont seem to have much beyond beef with a streamer.

So you want to be anti authoritarian by prescribing and censoring positions, and you do so by associating people youre opposed to with politics they havent advocated?

Be clear about your issue here please.

Why not?

I actually think its key to the democracy of DSA that any member can build a faction to fight for what they believe in, and think that this is what led DSA to be the largest substantively democratic organization in the US right now.

Trying to get a sense of what your issue is here. Tbc, I dont agree with brg on a lot of stuff and often dont like the way he engages online--something thats true of a lot of dsa members and lefties--but hes also been a streamer for quite a while and hes free to visit or speak to chapters

Remember being in like a Serious DSA factions meeting and people talking about cucking another faction and having that exact thought

i'm mogminning. im maxmogging. ive fallen down the stairs and can't get upisol spiking

It's depressing how quickly the Trump regime's cold-blooded murders in the Caribbean Sea have become background noise in the US. At least 150 people killed.

But beyond that brg wasnt under the discipline of a democratic centralist organization, he just has maoist politics.

The democratic centralism ban was removed last summer after being used once. People are free to try to start a caucus based around support for israel--good luck

This empire thats falling apart has so many ways to do "politics" that are just as stressful as real life organizing and shit only youre giving your life's purpose to arguing about a TV show

All members are allowed to start caucuses