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Everywhere is a good place for activism For example, I did some activism this morning by changing all the stations on the gym TVs off of fox news and hiding the remote
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Epic High Five posted:Everywhere is a good place for activism i can get behind that
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Mar 26, 2018 14:13
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GunnerJ posted:This one bothers me way more than the others: In some chapters, especially the larger ones, access to the Steering Committee seems to be a big deal whether or not you can get the chapter behind an effort. But otherwise that feels spot on and why this is such a bad look. Organizers should always be looking to trade responsibilities with others and looking for replacements, that's what builds institutional memory and protects against burnout. If it wasn't such a meltdown or politically divisive election it might have been that he could take a mentorship/support role.
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Mar 26, 2018 14:14
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Pikavangelist posted:i can get behind that i made this for you when squizzle didn't and I think you missed it 
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Mar 26, 2018 14:15
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online has informed me that the people who are mad about everything are mad that national is hiring a fundraiser staff person. Normal
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Mar 26, 2018 14:15
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the DSA should hold a competition with a prize for "most mad online" and then kick out everybody who voluntarily participates
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Mar 26, 2018 14:16
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Epic High Five posted:i made this for you when squizzle didn't and I think you missed it the piss pokemon is real (thanks)
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Mar 26, 2018 14:38
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Captain Queernabs posted:online has informed me that the people who are mad about everything are mad that national is hiring a fundraiser staff person. Normal I'm not sure if this is true and actually a thing, but if anyone is upset about National hiring staff they should be fired into the sun.
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Mar 26, 2018 14:41
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Tricky Dick Nixon posted:In some chapters, especially the larger ones, access to the Steering Committee seems to be a big deal whether or not you can get the chapter behind an effort. But otherwise that feels spot on and why this is such a bad look. Organizers should always be looking to trade responsibilities with others and looking for replacements, that's what builds institutional memory and protects against burnout. I just keep thinking about the phrase "figure out what it means" to be R&F. Like he's lost in the wilderness now that he doesn't have a title and the power/responsibilities of office. Bewildered by the prospect of being a DSA pleb. Poor thing! 
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Mar 26, 2018 14:41
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Yeah if you literally can't conceive of not being in power, you should not be in power.
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Mar 26, 2018 14:43
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GunnerJ posted:This one bothers me way more than the others: i think you're misinterpreting what he's saying (or he is not clear in his tweet, which you know... never happens), as co-chair the only thing he had time to do was administrative tasks, and now he's trying to figure out what kind of work he wants to do within the org that's not administrative
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Karl Barks posted:i think you're misinterpreting what he's saying (or he is not clear in his tweet, which you know... never happens), as co-chair the only thing he had time to do was administrative tasks, and now he's trying to figure out what kind of work he wants to do within the org that's not administrative If that's what he really means, cool, but the context is being super mad at losing an election. Which makes this sound like the prospect of not being in power is an unimaginable calamity for him.
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Mar 26, 2018 14:50
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lmao that these chapters can't get their poo poo together and yet my chapter, Literally Cop DSA, has recruited elected officials, begun taking over two local parties, and helped pass historic legislation. i mean c'mon y'all what the gently caress
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Mar 26, 2018 14:58
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careerism is bad thank’s
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Mar 26, 2018 15:00
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Syndlig posted:lmao that these chapters can't get their poo poo together and yet my chapter, Literally Cop DSA, has recruited elected officials, begun taking over two local parties, and helped pass historic legislation. Was going to say something about size leading to a chapter being big enough for internal politics to take up too much time but Austin's got 750 members and Boston's got 1100, which puts them in a similar league.
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Mar 26, 2018 15:03
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Syndlig posted:lmao that these chapters can't get their poo poo together and yet my chapter, Literally Cop DSA, has recruited elected officials, begun taking over two local parties, and helped pass historic legislation. i think the moral is always be purging
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Mar 26, 2018 15:04
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Syndlig posted:lmao that these chapters can't get their poo poo together and yet my chapter, Literally Cop DSA, has recruited elected officials, begun taking over two local parties, and helped pass historic legislation.
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Mar 26, 2018 15:08
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GunnerJ posted:Was going to say something about size leading to a chapter being big enough for internal politics to take up too much time but Austin's got 750 members and Boston's got 1100, which puts them in a similar league. we've got like 900 members now, it's insane. and insanely good. also wilco dsa, the tiny branch of austin i'm a part of, hit double-digit membership, so i'm pretty stoked about that too!
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Mar 26, 2018 15:14
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Syndlig posted:lmao that these chapters can't get their poo poo together and yet my chapter, Literally Cop DSA, has recruited elected officials, begun taking over two local parties, and helped pass historic legislation. I'm proud to carry the Fetonte tradition of get 'er done.
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Mar 26, 2018 15:59
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Syndlig posted:we've got like 900 members now, it's insane. and insanely good. Yeah congrats! I was actually wondering the other day if size is what leads to that kind of junk. Since as much as I gush about the dynamics of my chapter, it's still just a blip at 140 members so we're incredibly tiny and still conduct half our committee meetings at people's houses. I hope that guy who seems to be melting down about SC stuff really meant it as 'Now I can do a lot more for the org that isn't clerical babysitting' but that completely isn't how I read it. From someone outside of things it looks like he's half threatening to take his ball home, but doing it with a dramatic pause to let people beg him to stay.
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Mar 26, 2018 16:27
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140 is tiny? dang, we've just barely reached 70 and of that really only 30 have been active beyond just a few meetings. But it's definitely possible to have an outsized impact even at that size if you are very active and very organized, which we've managed to be despite some hiccups.Syndlig posted:also wilco dsa, the tiny branch of austin i'm a part of, hit double-digit membership, so i'm pretty stoked about that too! 
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Mar 26, 2018 16:31
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Syndlig posted:lmao that these chapters can't get their poo poo together and yet my chapter, Literally Cop DSA, has recruited elected officials, begun taking over two local parties, and helped pass historic legislation. all locals are Literally Cop DSA it's just that most are in denial and that is very counterproductive 
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Mar 26, 2018 16:35
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Coolness Averted posted:Yeah congrats! I was actually wondering the other day if size is what leads to that kind of junk. Since as much as I gush about the dynamics of my chapter, it's still just a blip at 140 members so we're incredibly tiny and still conduct half our committee meetings at people's houses. Most of the working group invites I get on facebook are at people's houses, I don't think this changes unless it's a big event like a M4A canvassing meet or whatever
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GunnerJ posted:This one bothers me way more than the others: Some extremely normal recruiting for the Fredericksburg chapter ITT.
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Mar 26, 2018 16:42
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Internet Explorer posted:I'm sure it will take them some time to update the official platform and get it posted. I think we're doing a press release as well. I'll post both if/when I get them. A video of the "Denver County Dems become DemSocs" moment - https://twitter.com/DSAdenver/status/978009464883232770
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Internet Explorer posted:A video of the "Denver County Dems become DemSocs" moment - https://twitter.com/DSAdenver/status/978009464883232770 So whats going on here? Is this a case of 'Democrats in Denver are socialists' or 'enough DSA types attended the meeting to pass the resolution' or 'a lot of libs thinking democracy and The Many sounds nice so they unwittingly put End Capitalism on the platform' or what?
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Dekko posted:So whats going on here? Is this a case of 'Democrats in Denver are socialists' or 'enough DSA types attended the meeting to pass the resolution' or 'a lot of libs thinking democracy and The Many sounds nice so they unwittingly put End Capitalism on the platform' or what? Likely the last bit. But it's nice to know that the words "democratically owned and controlled economy" isn't enough to scare away the liberals. Essentially, the concept of "yeah, far too small of a group has power" is one that people agree with and if we can start with that, we may have some hope. The resolution was originally going to be written in a much more traditionally "booksmart Socialist" way, but we all agreed with trying to distill it down to something that the average person could associate with. While gathering signatures I had one or two people balk at the idea, but all in all we gathered ~150 signatures in about an hour and it passed by an overwhelming margin. It's not binding and it doesn't mean much, but it's an insight into what people are thinking an offers a glimmer of hope. At least that's my take on it.
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should have just ended it at "not to make profits", instead of "not to make profits for the few" imo
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sorry i know this is from a few pages ago but i cannot stop laughing about the loving furry con guy
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"hmm where should we build socialism, gang?" *sees black man being murdered by cops* *sees crushing poverty in immigrant communities* *sees folks ground into dust by the gig economy* "hey you know what i heard anthrocon is gonna be here like next week"
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drake_no.jpg outreach to the attendees of anthrocon drake_yes.jpg outreach to the taxi/uber, hotel, restaurant, bar workers who make anthrocon possible but seriously, have a thing for service worker appreciation for anthrocon attendees to participate in and pass out information on upcoming pro-worker legislation/actions Ruzihm has issued a correction as of 20:53 on Mar 26, 2018 |
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Mar 26, 2018 20:51
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That is a much better idea honestly
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Furry liberation will be a natural consequence of fully automated luxury gay space communism, but it's not high on the list of priorities, y'know?
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Ruzihm posted:drake_no.jpg outreach to the attendees of anthrocon this is extremely good
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Mar 26, 2018 21:07
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I think the properly organized group would find out whoever is a furry in their bunch and pay their way in to distribute literature and brainwash honest decent folk into the cult of godless communism, since they were probably going anyway
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Epic High Five posted:I think the properly organized group would find out whoever is a furry in their bunch and pay their way in to distribute literature and brainwash honest decent folk into the cult of godless communism, since they were probably going anyway it's not that hard, there are hordes of angry leftist furries, and a lot of them are probably in DSA. the fur is shed from inside the caucus
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RiotGearEpsilon posted:it's not that hard, there are hordes of angry leftist furries, and a lot of them are probably in DSA. the fur is shed from inside the caucus a furry goes to my gym, and when I see him sometimes he likes to tell me about how that one nazi neo-confederate fox keeps getting beat the gently caress up by other furries
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Epic High Five posted:a furry goes to my gym, and when I see him sometimes he likes to tell me about how that one nazi neo-confederate fox keeps getting beat the gently caress up by other furries how much does it cost to get nazi blood out of a fursuit, i wonder
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Why would you want to?
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Halloween Jack posted:Why would you want to? so the next nazi doesnt expect it duh
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