- Lin-Manuel Turtle
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How it started
What are is the Democratic Socialists of America?
From their website.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. DSA's members are building progressive movements for social change while establishing an openly democratic socialist presence in American communities and politics.
At the root of our socialism is a profound commitment to democracy, as means and end. As we are unlikely to see an immediate end to capitalism tomorrow, DSA fights for reforms today that will weaken the power of corporations and increase the power of working people. For example, we support reforms that:
decrease the influence of money in politics
empower ordinary people in workplaces and the economy
restructure gender and cultural relationships to be more equitable.
We are activists committed to democracy as not simply one of our political values but our means of restructuring society. Our vision is of a society in which people have a real voice in the choices and relationships that affect the entirety of our lives. We call this vision democratic socialism — a vision of a more free, democratic and humane society.
In this web site you can find out about DSA, its politics, structure and program. DSA's political perspective is called Where We Stand. It says, in part,
We are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo.
We are socialists because we share a vision of a humane international social order based both on democratic planning and market mechanisms to achieve equitable distribution of resources, meaningful work, a healthy environment, sustainable growth, gender and racial equality, and non-oppressive relationships.
DSA has a youth section, Young Democratic Socialists (YDS). Made up of students from colleges and high schools, the Youth Section works on economic justice and democracy and prison justice projects. It is a member of the International Union of Socialist Youth, an affiliate of the Socialist International. The Youth Section meets several times during the year.
The DSA has chapters all over the country, chances are there's one in your state, if there isn't one near you though, starting your own chapter isn't very hard.
To find a chapter:
http://www.dsausa.org/chapters
To start a chapter:
http://www.dsausa.org/start_a_chapter
Also if you're going to start a chapter download and read this;
http://www.dsausa.org/organizing_for_justice
Also read that anyway because it's a great guide for organizing in general.
The DSA has yearly dues, which can be seen here:
As you can see, it's pretty affordable for once a year, the dues are necessary because the DSA is completely funded by membership/dues, people who can't afford the dues are still welcome to attend meetings and volunteer with the cause, they're just not dues paying members of the DSA, although from what I've personally heard usually chapter heads will work with people who can't afford the $27 low income due.
To become a member of the DSA go here;
https://dsausa.nationbuilder.com/join
So what does the DSA actually do?
DSA chapters do a lot of local stuff, like a DSA chapter in my state is working on improving the treatment of the homeless in the major city, and stopping/reversing the illegality of being homeless. The national DSA also does campaigns, for example they supported Bernie Sanders during the democratic primary, and they also have a current campaign, from their website;
DSA and YDS chapters organize around a variety of issues based on local priorities, especially labor solidarity and anti-austerity work. However, the national office provides resources and support for the main activist priorities of the organization:
Standing Up to Hate Emergency Response
In response to the anti-Mexican, anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-refugee anti-woman and general hate-mongering coming from Donald Trump and the way he is creating space for racist extremists to mobilize, DSA local chapters are reaching out to immigrant rights organizations, mosques and others who may be targets for violence. We are mobilizing to spread the message that hate only creates more hate, and we will continue to resist him and what he represents. Longer term, DSA chapters will work to build a multi-racial democratic socialist movement that is forthrightly anti-racist and includes white poor and working class and rural folks.
Feel free to use this thread to ask questions about the DSA, talk about the DSA, post sick DSA memes, discuss organizing efforts/progress etc.
Please do not use this thread to hate on the DSA, or be a big baby with a poopy diaper.
DSA Goons by State
AL - SSJ_naruto_2003
AZ - Solid Poopsnake
CA - ChickenOfTomorrow
CA - lancemantis
CA - Baby Babbeh
CA - no more books
CA - cheese
CA - Stinky_Pete
CA - Anime Schoolgirl
CA - apokaladle
CA - fermun
CA - Larry Parrish
CA - Raskolnikov38
CA - Doc Hawkins
CA - gently caress. marry. t-rex
CO - Ace of Baes
CO - Internet Explorer
CO - MShadowy
CO - SomeMathGuy
CO - skeemon
CT - HiHo ChiRo
DC - resurgam40
DC - Jenner
DC - WhiskeyJuvenile
DC - Nitrousoxide
DC - Zikan
DC - COOL CORN
DE - Nichael
FL - Venom Snake
FL - Phi230
FL - mister magpie
FL - Fullhouse
FL - ThatBasqueGuy
FL - Oh Hell No
FL - Ronald McReagan
FL - Skeptic Tank
FL - Huragok
FL - Dr. Poz
FL - big black turnout
FL - Crazycryodude
FL - Darkman Fanpage
GA - Ferdinand the Bull
GA - Iridium
GA - Serf
IL - Jonas Albrecht
KY - salat brut
MA - GlyphGryph
MA (Boston) - Karl Barks
MA (Boston) - Taran
MA (Boston) - Pollyanna
MA (Boston) - RiotGearEpsilon
MA (Boston) - Maduo
MA (Boston) - Defenestration
MD - Ruzihm
MO - Troy Queef
MI - Ofaloaf
NC - Thunder God Biden
NC - Eustace
NE - Corporal Beefheart
NH - OhFunny
NH - Matthaeus
NH - BrainParasite
NM - Minty
NY (NYC) - Crusader
NY (NYC) - unbutthurtable
NY (NYC) - unicorn dreams
NY - I Am A Robot
NY - Ol Standard Retard
NY - Lumpy
OH - TwoQuestions
OH - Business Gorillas
OK - Dreddout
OK -Tricky Dick Nixon
OR - Thaddius the Large
PA - Nroo
PA - Tuxedo Catfish
PA - Manky
PA - Goon Danton
PA - achillesforever6
TX - jarofpiss
TX - XBenedict
TX - Office Pig
TX - teacher_man
TX - Syndlig
TX - Triangle Shirt Factotum
TX - Sir Tonk
TX - ScrubLeague
VA - Popular Human
WA - HorseRenoir
WA - GodFish
WA - Doorknob Slobber
WI - Hilario Baldness
WI - BitcoinRockefeller
WI - Mythical Moderate
OP 7 Years later
Whatever happened to the dsa they spent half a million dollars on inter org grievances and in fighting sounds like a rw joke lol, feel bad for all the chapters that are like organizing workplaces or forming tenants unions or whatever then dig a little deeper into the org and find out about this stuff
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- Lin-Manuel Turtle
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Catering Party USA
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- Lin-Manuel Turtle
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aren’t you the moron who was running around saying Stalin allied with Hitler? How the hell are people ever supposed to believe even the wildest lib poo poo coming from you is satire when your normal takes are also wild lib poo poo?
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- Lin-Manuel Turtle
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if you think somebody's opinion of a crazed paranoid alcoholic/revolutionary hero who peed his pants and died 70 years ago is a reliable indicator of their stance on gaza you should make it a point to talk to one single person in real life ASAP
Christ.
go away and be an epic lib in gbs or please anywhere else ffs
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- Lin-Manuel Turtle
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it isn’t “intraleft” fighting to criticize Stalin for buying time for the USSR by signing Molotov-Ribbentrop, it is thoughtlessly regurgitating reactionary nonsense.
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- Lin-Manuel Turtle
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Look, Cassian, you made Turtle break character. WTF is wrong with you?
this is how upset I felt:
It is just that there is no better opportunity to try to drill through someone’s thick skull that every piece of received wisdom they have ever learned about Stalin is a product of bourgeois propaganda. Even learning the most basic facts about Molotov-Ribbentrop should make it clear to anyone who claims to be on the nebulous “left” that that little canard is a completely baseless lie designed solely to equivocate between socialism and the USSR and Nazi Germany for the sole benefit of Nazis and their fellow travelers.
I could tell the Gaza bit was satire, but it makes no sense to show off that you could see through the liberal lie of “I support Palestine but not the evil Houthi’s who do actually do something to support them” or “I support Cuban socialism but not the evil communist dictatorship that is responsible for fighting Imperialist encroachment” but fall for the equally moronic “I support a hypothetical Soviet state, but not the evil figure who upset the bourgeoisie by trying to defend it from its enemies.”
It is ignorant incoherence, and the simplest effort should make someone realize that it means something that they are obviously wrong about basic facts, and hopefully do something to educate themselves. If you want to criticize Stalin, at least pick a legitimate complaint, not one fabricated by fascists. To quote a line from a great man and musical “If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.”
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