In my experience it’s the more polite thing people to my right on international issues call me irl instead of just calling me a tankie or something.

People who know people who would know have confirmed to me that he does have a security detail.

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I won’t bore you with all the details, but yes. The details are currently what’s being worked on, but there is a consensus among DSA leaders outside of the “right” caucuses that DSA needs to begin experimenting with operating as a fully independent political party where possible. I could write a longer post if you’re interested, but it would be mostly internal politics stuff.

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You are correct. I’m definitely speaking to my personal ambitions lol. DSA is in a stage where they’re trying to figure out what a successful socialist party in America looks like.

NYC-DSA has seen a massive increase in members during his campaign. His campaign has created more socialists that have joined a political party. For socialists in the current environment, I think that’s one of the best outcomes of electoralism.

How very convenient when one’s analysis requires them to stay at home and do nothing.

I have spent a lot of time talking shit about NYC-DSA and I must now shut up and listen. Amazing work.

The very same!

The ones I think about the most are the ones that reek of some kind of sexual pathology. Like Trump and Putin kissing, or Trump as a baby in a diaper, or the weird amount of signs with Trump shitting or pissing.

Many of my own comrades disagree with me on this, but from my experience and talking with others, I see the primary utility in socialists running for office to be gaining membership and increasing organizational capacity. Regardless of whether you win, you always gain new members from the campaign. And hey, if you keep it up you’ll eventually have the muscle to actually win.

As a fellow grass-toucher, this post goes hard. I have never in my life been to a more libbed-up protest but I was happy to be there with my comrades. I think many armchair organizers are far more worried about appearing the same as liberals when instead they should be worried about making more socialists.

This is better than my previously held analysis of “damn nyc-dsa is annoying” lol

This is NOT very materialist of me, but my opinion of this guy has just gone way up

Protest where I’m at was much bigger than I was anticipating for a short notice action on a weekday.

I have a pet theory that a lot of Americans, including unorganized folks, really crave that sense of revolutionary freedom that was in the air during summer of 2020, and I think it’s easy to see potential for that in LA. Though how far any of this goes is hard to judge from where we’re standing now.

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Data on this is based on polling, and varies a lot, which makes the data flawed. The usually cited figures in what I could find put self-reported participation at between 15 and 26 million.

Of course, people could be lying or exaggerating how much they “participated”. But even if we half the low-end estimate, it still puts the George Floyd uprisings as the largest mass action in American history by a wide margin.

I mean, the answer is kind of in your post. 2020 BLM was the largest set of protests in the history of the country. There would be massive amounts of pushback from everyday people.

I actually think a lot of this stuff is best thought of through the lens of moral panic, in that the subject matter is almost arbitrary because it’s being used as a vehicle to express a deep-set anxiety about society. Another helpful connection here is how “sissy hypno” porn has been latched onto by anti-trans fascists as a demonstration of how the internet is “corrupting” children or whatever.

I’m sure right-wing spaces have had their own weird debates about it, but when I see people panicking about gooning in leftist spaces, I assume it comes from a sense of unease about the easy accessibility of pornography and how it might affect us. I have a much longer rant about how I think that is picking the wrong target to critique, but I should probably stop posting about gooning lol