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PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Al! posted:

long story short goon who would hang out at the strip club but not pay for any dances or tip the stage dancer. brought in a lasagne and forced a dancer take a polite bite of it. according to him the girls are all friends with him.

the gently caress kind of strip club allows you to bring in food?

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my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Al! posted:

long story short goon who would hang out at the strip club but not pay for any dances or tip the stage dancer. brought in a lasagne and forced a dancer take a polite bite of it. according to him the girls are all friends with him.

was also permabanned for doing violence to dogs or something like that. real good poster. Free him

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

iron crowned was not violent towards dogs (or at least he never posted about it) but he did hate dogs and has a million probes on his rap sheet for lusting for dog death

speng31b
May 8, 2010

lobster shirt posted:

iron crowned was not violent towards dogs (or at least he never posted about it) but he did hate dogs and has a million probes on his rap sheet for lusting for dog death

goonlore has merged him with the dogbricker in narrative memory

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

brick crowned

DaysBefore
Jan 24, 2019

Merging every goon telephone story into one ultimate Mega Goon. Then making Goku fight him

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

joepinetree posted:

At its pre-pandemic peak there was certainly a major contingent of creepy guys who legitimately thought "it's ok, im just being sex positive" was a good excuse for hitting on every woman in the org.

One of the people I'd hang out with at DSA events was this woman who worked as a stripper. The only reason I learned she was a stripper was because I was having a conversation with her and some other guy recognized her, proceeded to identify the club she worked at, and started to ask questions about her schedule to go there and see her.

isn't that what swp stands for?

asking a SWP member if it stands for "sex worker positive" would be a great joke, but most SWP members are so old they might die from shock

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

joepinetree posted:

DSA is a perfectly tuned machine aimed at taking any energy for change and channeling into irrelevant procedural nonsense.

My last meeting with DSA there was a stupid slapfight for like 30 minutes over whether a particular motion could come up for a vote, and there was a whole thing about roberts rules of order and amending the agenda (note, the debate wasn't about the motion itself, but whether someone could make a motion to amend the agenda to add the motion for debate and a vote). The guy wanting to put the motion to a vote got loud at one point. So this lady interrupted him and said that as a victim of sexual assault he was triggering her by speaking loudly. He then said that as a victim of sexual assault himself he found it extremely concerning that she would casually use sexual assault that way. Which then led to mutual threats of filing grievances, a discussion of how no one internal should be able to handle it, and a promise by the chair of seeking help from national. Best part was that the motion itself was some vague pablum about engaging in electoralism even after Bernie's defeat.

After the meeting was over, I cancelled my membership, and asked to be removed from the rolls (despite being allowed to continue on as a member for a while if I wanted).
lmao

thats also about right as it's right there in it's name: democrat* . anyways the last time i paid dues was 2019 and never again. it wasn't always bad in the earlier years, but towards that period it was definitely a notable amount of tumblr-esque wreckers caring more about wasting time on privilege and land acknowledgments or whatever instead of actually getting stuff done.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

While it's a shame that it funnels some money towards meaningless stuff, I figure that it's good to have a hobby, and DSA is a good hobby for some people.

I view it similarly to "a college club, for adults." Just a college club that some people think Really Matters for some reason.

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000


Ultra Carp

Cuttlefush posted:

lol you met iron crowned

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

SA pervert mortal kombat: iron crowned vs bust rodd

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

fermun posted:

as a reminder, you can't be a communist alone, so even as dysfunctional as dsa is, if youre not in an org, you're a lib.

it doesn't have to be dsa, though thats the only org available in a lot of places, but join salt or cpusa or whatever

socialist alternative makes you pay money to support anticommunist British guys in Hong Kong

mawarannahr has issued a correction as of 10:03 on Jan 16, 2024

Submarine Sandpaper
May 27, 2007


PostNouveau posted:

the gently caress kind of strip club allows you to bring in food?

If you do make it a taco box for the strippers, not something that that requires a loving fork.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

mawarannahr posted:

socialist alternative makes you pay money to support anticommunist British guys in Hong Kong

Lol

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

mawarannahr posted:

socialist alternative makes you pay money to support anticommunist British guys in Hong Kong

this is why i left SA lol. their antichinese stance is unrelenting and the only thing it does for americans is give a left-wing cover to justify further escalation against china. its so stupid.

Uncle Boogeyman
Jul 22, 2007

Ytlaya posted:

I was at least expecting the $30k/month person to be "king of the DSA" or something instead of a "harassment and grievance officer."

How does that even happen?

you gotta harass a lot of dsa members to earn the big bucks

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Ytlaya posted:

I was at least expecting the $30k/month person to be "king of the DSA" or something instead of a "harassment and grievance officer."

How does that even happen?

this is significantly more money than Kathy Hochul's and Gavin Newsom's salaries. is there really not a typo involved? lmao

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

mawarannahr posted:

this is significantly more money than Kathy Hochul's and Gavin Newsom's salaries. is there really not a typo involved? lmao

look if you had to deal with DSA polycules you'd demand six figures too

DaysBefore
Jan 24, 2019

30k a month for the socdem HR person. Badass

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

DaysBefore posted:

30k a month for the socdem HR person. Badass
possibly the highest salaried HR official in the entire world

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001
goon in the seattle lan thread was hyping his cool org the other day too

Mr. Lobe posted:

A group called the Seattle Revolutionary Socialists. Pretty small potatoes, but that's the Marxist left for you in America.

We're good about tabling though. If you ever see a group with a bunch of books and a red banner, that's us. You see a tall white guy in black with a beard, that's me.

SRS Website posted:

China and Cuba, like the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, have nothing to do with socialism. We support the struggles of workers in these countries against the bureaucratic ruling class.

DaysBefore
Jan 24, 2019

Seattle ftw

aw frig aw dang it
Jun 1, 2018


Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

goon in the seattle lan thread was hyping his cool org the other day too

give that man $30,000 monthly

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

goon in the seattle lan thread was hyping his cool org the other day too
I do not think they send money to British expats fwiw, they seem pretty harmless and they show up to stuff in their small numbers

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

mawarannahr posted:

I do not think they send money to British expats fwiw, they seem pretty harmless and they show up to stuff in their small numbers

sinophobia is not harmless op

Insanite
Aug 30, 2005

Raskolnikov38 posted:

look if you had to deal with DSA polycules you'd demand six figures too

cannot disagree with this

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

sinophobia is not harmless op
i guess you're right. they had weekly meetings on campus when i was at school and I would attend sometimes. they rarely brought it up when i was there (probably cause it would turn people off/they were afraid of me)

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

what active socialist groups are there that do not stand against the horrors of red china / Cuba / Vietnam / America’s enemy of the week? actual question

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
psl

fosborb
Dec 15, 2006



Chronic Good Poster
Catholic Workers?

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019


psl has no games members in Seattle

fibblins
Dec 21, 2007

party swan
I joined an IMT branch in my area despite my reservations about their position on China since they were the only communists actively organizing here that I could see. I figure it won't hurt to get experience organizing while developing my own education enough to come to my own conclusions. If I get expelled for being revisionist at least I'll be a better poster for it.

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



Raskolnikov38 posted:

psl also has the advantage of being a revolutionary marxist-leninist organization that utilizes democratic centralism to avoid the comedy of fuckups that was the DSA

I stopped my dues years ago but the last email I got from my chapter before I unsubscribed was that they were voting to dissolve into the PSL. Wonder how that went

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

received an email today signed

In Love & Solidarity,
DSA Speed Dating Team

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

In Training posted:

received an email today signed

In Love & Solidarity,
DSA Speed Dating Team

concerning

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

goon in the seattle lan thread was hyping his cool org the other day too

lol

bet they've got a newspaper

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

Best Friends posted:

what active socialist groups are there that do not stand against the horrors of red china / Cuba / Vietnam / America’s enemy of the week? actual question

cpusa sometimes has brunches with Chinese/vietnamese diplomats in dc after official business is over

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

goon in the seattle lan thread was hyping his cool org the other day too

lmao

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

In Training posted:

received an email today signed

In Love & Solidarity,
DSA Speed Dating Team

ominous

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Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

goon in the seattle lan thread was hyping his cool org the other day too

You have a pretty distorted notion of what hyping is. I did not mention what org I was tabling with at the Olympia action until asked, and in that quote you cited I literally described us as small potatoes. Because we are. We are like 12 people.

Are you seriously trying to start poo poo, in another thread, on account of a 12 member trotskyist group? That's 1. creepy as hell and 2. A very poor use of your time.

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