Julie

Make DSA more democratic, make DSA a mass party, let’s get socialism in our lifetimes

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Fine if you want to repeat this but the obvious thing left unsaid here is that people don’t believe Democrats mean what they say either. The erosion of political reality required liberal collaboration and Democrats have happily gone along with everything that brought us here

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Expel Vickie Paladino NYC Council Member Vickie Paladino posted a meme about murdering DSA members. Tell Speaker Adams and the council ethics committee this is unacceptable and she must be expelled.

NYC Councilmember Vickie Paladino posted about murdering her political opponents. Tell Speaker Adams & the Council Ethics Committee this is unacceptable–she must be expelled. actionnetwork.org/letters/expe...

Always amazed by the grace that liberals will extend to people with massive power. It’s not Chuck Schumers fault! He’s only been one of the most powerful people on the planet for a decade now.

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The nice thing about all these wonk guys going full mask off is the pretense of them actually being smart has been dropped and we can now clearly see them for the resentful little creeps they have always been

Nice example of how Silicon Valley's new anti-woke politics is all about reasserting control over their workers.

Not an expert but it’s probably true that they drive down wages some but the underlying issue is labor rights. It’s why tech CEOs love them and it makes organizing the industry much much harder

After working in tech for ten years watching the nativist right and the tech oligarch right debate H1-Bs is a wonderful Christmas present

Ultimately Democrats vulnerability on trans rights has nothing to do with trans rights. What people hear is that Democrats care more about trans rights than their own concerns, a message that would have zero traction if they felt Democrats genuinely did care about their own concerns

I think this is because a central trick of reactionary/fascist politics is to invert the realities of power. Even if reactionaries gain power, maintenance of it requires escalation of that inversion to construct a world where miseries of capitalism are blamed on Hamas, wokeness, whatever

The people in this video need a better option to vote for and it’s up to us to give it to them. Trump is going to fail them too

at the end of the day I think left wing politics requires optimism and doomerism from liberals about "it's horrifying that so many people hate you" is actually kind of infuriating. people love me actually they just hate your lib politics!

You are simply not going to convince me that half the country wants to murder trans people or whatever when Zohran goes and talks to them on the street and they are like “I can’t afford groceries” or they talk about the actual murders in Gaza we are all watching every day on our phones

It’s worth emphasizing that even bad websites for public services are the result of privatization. NY State has almost no full time tech staff to work on UI. CUNY spent $600 million (!!) on a custom software system from Oracle that everyone hated pscbc.blogspot.com/2013/03/cuny...

Screenshot of Seth Moultons education history including Andover Academy and multiple degrees from Harvard

it's been the case for a while now that one of the most vocally transphobic segments of American (and British) society is actually elite liberals and Seth Moulton is no exception. trans people are simply an inconvenient speed bump in his career aspirations

What if we privatized public schools but in a start up way with no HR

Want to Do Business in Silicon Valley? Better Act Nice (Published 2019) What happened when a venture capitalist told the truth about a Mark Zuckerberg-backed start-up.

Every time this topic comes up I’m reminded of the VC who dared to offer public constructive criticism of one of Zuckerbergs failed ideas in 2019 and the rest of the VC/founder community completely lost their minds www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/s...

lol i was about to google to find the “long investigation” because i already saw Paul’s piece but i guess it’s just Bari being disingenuous

this is good and all but barbara lee is 77 years old man, the left has got to find a way around the democratic party gerontocracy

That Israel controls everything a Gazan needs to be alive is all the evidence you need that Gaza is one massive prison

you need to express your disapproval of the water being turned off in gaza with just right tone and then blinken will make them do it

good post from @eschatonblog.com on it www.eschatonblog.com/2023/10/powe...

been thinking all week about how good modern reactionaries are at portraying themselves as victims when they actually have nearly absolute power. upper class terfs in the uk have perfected it, and we’re watching it happen again

it seems like there is a perhaps understandable wish among the professional lefty opinion havers to have something to add beyond the obvious tragedy and horror right now but so far there just isn’t much

anyone pretending to be mad about tweets from a dsa chapter run by like five volunteers and one guy has the twitter login is purposely avoiding the reality that even national dsa has basically no power to affect the ongoing carnage that has bipartisan approval

you’re mad that i said “lol ok”?

ha i will check them out because i am not an expert but if you think dsa members haven’t been paying attention you should go to some meetings because we are full of the most pedantic people on earth (complimentary)