joepinetree posted:

Lot's of people trying to become the next chapo (in a chapter where the biggest event we had had like 40 people, I know of at least 4 different podcasts that got started).

Pentecoastal Elites posted:

exactly what you'd expect: sex work includes posting nudes. actually it doesn't. actually it does but only if it's your sole source of income. actually it doesn't unless you're poor. actually it does but you can't bring a +1. actually you can bring a +1 but they have to be a sex worker too and they fail to meet the criteria. actually they do meet the criteria but because you're an abuser and want to predate on sex workers at the pool party you want to reject them. actually you're the abuser and this is all just a way to get access to abusable sex workers. actually I'm making my own sex worker pool party WITHOUT the abusers and here is the criteria with which I will evaluate sex workers. actually you forgot to acknowledge etc etc etc etc etc

Cuttlefush posted:

lol you met iron crowned

aw frig aw dang it posted:

DSA lasagna caucus

Ace of Baes posted:

Al! posted:

this has never happened in the history of society

lumpentroll posted:

hitler

AnimeIsTrash posted:

*walking into a dsa meeting*

how many of your fellows like big tits?

Al! posted:

i mean really how many dsa members does it take to change a lightbulb?

jarofpiss posted:

DSA is not a staff led organization. staff doesn’t lead anything. staff provides infrastructure, training, and support for membership to campaigns. i hear what the staff organizers do all day long and the vast majority is training for chapter leadership. also providing direction to try and help keep the amateur chapter membership from violating election law or creating other legal issues for themselves and the org at large. giving them access to national infrastructure, getting them set up with communication lists, helping them work through the process of getting bank accounts, dues share, and when they’re established doing trainings for their local campaigns, putting them in touch with resources for larger national campaigns, etc. membership has dropped and the current proposal leaves the remaining organizers with over 80 chapters each

literally the sort of infrastructural poo poo you need if you want to be anything more than a local book club.

gutting this just reflects the complete baby brain lack of perspective these loving internet posers have about this org.

the majority NPC appears to want to dismantle the existing staff union infrastructure so they can direct funds toward their caucus dictated priorities like preserving the health insurance and paid salaries for the 1099 independent contractor npc co-chairs. its loving starve the beast conservatism in action

co chairs on an npc that can’t seem to produce a budget with actual numbers on it and instead want to drive ahead with firing 8 people (approx 4 more than required to hit their previously requested budget deficit). no target budget number presented in negotiations. these are not professionals in any sense of the word, they are literally just moron internet brains.

this clusterfuck of a committee is consistently self admitting to negotiating in bad faith with the union, committing numerous nlrb violations, and somehow thinks this isn’t going to bite them.

co-chair loving crying on twitter about how hard this has been for her. outrageous. it looks like the plan is to bust the union to gut staff and give jobs for their caucus deep state friends




like i am constantly thinking back on union meetings when i was a teamster and contrasting it with the sort of poo poo the self proclaimed left gets up to and it’s incredible. we are doomed.

i’m trying to imagine if i had a job where different people with zero competence or understanding of my industry got to come in every two years and make a bunch of proclamations and then were tasked with trying to balance a budget (but also they dont know how to count past 10 with their shoes on). loving depressing.


not to say that the cspam internet communists dont have a lot of great advice to give in this thread, but fermun you dont know what youre talking about and this thread is just a spectacle for this reactionary cesspool to jack off to drama in.

maybe don’t post like you know how any of this poo poo has gone or have any sort of valuable perspective to add, unless youre gonna leak new behind the scenes caucus deep state chats?

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

i read all of that

Raskolnikov38 posted:

lmao DSA goldbelly'd itself

khazar sansculotte posted:

Democratic Socialists of America

*puts on They Live glasses*

Social Democrats of America

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

https://twitter.com/Jef_The_Leftist/status/1775953536817262596

my_custom_username posted:

Turning down the opportunity to speak with the head of one of the few standing socialist states, leftishly

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

https://x.com/brytonsthoughts/status/1781071308715122760?s=46

R. Guyovich posted:

Cuba: Between Imperialism and Socialism

"i harangued a full quarter of the delegation to meet with a bunch of spindly nerd bloggers with no imaginable constituency outside the verso loft"

mawarannahr posted:

nice shoes... did you get them at the clown locker?

comedyblissoption posted:

personally meeting president xi followed by falun gong

PhilippAchtel posted:

DSA: It's wrong to imply I met with right-wingers

Cassian of Imola posted:

hey quick question op what was the USSR's policy on the Nazis before deciding that defeating them was the best strategy, and what made them change their minds

follow up: is it your contention here that the USSR under Stalin generally supported the CCP over the KMT and is responsible for its success

HallelujahLee posted:

i personally signed the molotov pact

Cassian of Imola posted:

everyone knows he had reasons for carving up Eastern Europe with Hitler, and the UK and France were responsible to the extent that they limited his options. it just seems silly to pretend that Stalin's main reason for building up soviet industrial capacity was defeating nazism per se when his most famous foreign policy aims re: fascism up to WW2 were co-opting and undermining the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War and selling out the CCP to the KMT. it seems much more likely that he was concerned about potential military rivals on the Russian border regardless of ideology

all that is totally in keeping with his stated beliefs and aims re: communism in one country, which just a moment ago you nerds were defending. stalin defenders always get all huffy when you suggest he wasn't a true blue internationalist trot. you can't have it both ways!

Cassian of Imola posted:

no communism is cool, incl. existing forms of communism, including stuff like agricultural collectivisation. I didn't think Stalin was such hot poo poo what with all shooting poets, carving up Poland with Hitler, etc. but the USSR was sweet both as a utopian project and as a real existing place to live. absolutely unimaginable today that a country would, for example, create a massive bureaucracy dedicated to preserving and translating the literatures of dozens of languages and cultures within its borders while also pursuing space exploration and a universal standard of living. pretty sure I'm just the social retard kind of trot not the CIA stooge kind. but who can tell if they're a CIA stooge

Cassian of Imola posted:

yes

Cassian of Imola posted:

the USSR probably could have replaced a violent paranoid maniac with somebody else in the 1930s and done just fine. many other successful communist governments get by without a literally insane guy calling the shots