Everyone seems to forget that a significant economic downturn started in late 2019 and it was only the unprecedented stimulus in response to the pandemic that staved it off. Well now here we are almost five years later with most of that stimulus cut off and in a much worse international position. They’re just trying to pretend it isn’t falling apart through the election but next year we’re in for a bad time.
Idk all the anti-vaxxers where I live are insane wealthy white baptists that would have been in the klan a century ago (if they aren’t right now). The poorer people in town tend to get their shots.
Maybe we should differentiate colonized/imperialized peoples that are skeptical of Western medicine because they’ve been victims of it from those that are Nazis that hate everything modern or any expectations of them.
I work with a Ukrainian guy and he writes English in immaculate cursive. Idk how that translates to Cyrillic but I’d assume it does which probably means he’s well practiced with it.
The enemy are cruel and unrepentant murderers and we must bring them down by any means because this is war but also it’s bad to kill them and if they are killed it signals a dark turn for the character.
In all reality it probably isn’t even true either. When Trump took office membership and activity of left wing organizations exploded. It was so much easier to organize people into a state of rebellion when they couldn’t pretend things were fine under Trump than it has been under Biden.
Funny, my Democratic governor has been the primary roadblock to indigenous sovereignty in my state and continues to fuck them over at every turn she gets. I’m sure they’re glad she’s there thinking of them though.
Actually it’s kind of an apt comparison. They just don’t realize that Lincoln was never really anti-slavery and was only really forced into that position because the Republicans in the Northern states demanded it.
While I think the members of Red Star mean well and their faction generally has good positions, I’ve gotta push back on the idea that they’ve significantly pushed DSA’s international work broadly or their anti-zionist work specifically in a better direction. The recent gutting of the anti-zionist resolution by the NPC and the retraction of the statements on the Venezuelan election and the Israeli assassination in Iran show that at the highest level DSA is firmly in control of chauvinist social democrats on these issues (I had to scoff when I heard of the “left” NPC getting elected last year, as if Bread and Roses are left lol)
Furthermore, DSA’s position on the presidential election has always been firmly invested in working within the Democratic party as seen by their focus on the “uncommitted” movement and their recent statement about Harris picking Walz as her VP. They still hide in their dirty break/party surrogate position which functionally ends up the same as the CP’s line.
There are a lot of good people in DSA and I learned a lot when I was a member but the organization is fundamentally repelled by any sort of discipline and the social fascists on it’s right wing maintain their power through that disorder and have demonstated that they do not care if their opportunism harms the organization or anyone else for that matter. Changing it into something viable would take an immense amount of work that would be sabotaged by SMC/Groundwork/B&R every step of the way, or you could just join an actual Leninist org.
If she’s a real one she’ll run this fall anyways.
If you’re heavily involved join Red Star or MUG. If not at least reach out to them and ask how you can help their efforts.
Alternatively quit the org and join a better one.
I left the org because my chapter gutted this resolution and I seriously considered rejoining if this had passed as written but I guess that’s not happening.
From People’s World just the other day. Been kinda crazy to see them mobilize so quickly in support of her.
Also totally ignores that she’ll just continue Biden’s legacy of expanded Alaskan oil drilling and tariffs on green tech from China.
Tbh I think it’d be better to just say the Democratic party isn’t democratic and never will be. That’s the Democratic party’s own line and the the state involvement in their primaries is only really to give the facade of democratic legitimacy and so that the party doesn’t have to pay for it. Calling for reform is pointless.
Biden was watching the news and couldn’t believe how bad the president did in that debate.
In 2020 I knocked doors non-stop for months for a Democratic PAC because I believed it might make things better and prevent fascism even though I personally did not like the candidates. I probably did more for the Democratic party than 90% of blue maga online hacks trying to shame the left for not voting for Biden and guess what, I’m still going to have to pay my student loans under his shitty government.
If anyone ever tries to shame me into voting for a Dem irl I’m going to spit in their face.
Smdh Joe-bros stealing votes trying to prevent our first female president #itsherturn
The trailer for the original said it was made by the creators of Jurassic park. First as a tragedy then as a farce 
Apologies for the late reply, this is the first chance I’ve gotten around to it.
During contract negotiations 97% of UPS Teamsters authorized a strike. This was widely lauded as an impressive show of militancy. Later only 86% of the 58% of eligible UPS Teamsters voted for the contract, or a little under half of the Teamsters at UPS. Rushing a contract vote and not engaging members in it is a regular tactic of union leadership that wants to reach a compromise and their ability to mobilize a strike vote shows that union officials were more than capable of reaching more members.
Shortly before the contract vote, A small group of Teamsters were organizing against it. They released this article in Cosmonaut and did an interview on Revolutionary Left Radio detailing extensively how many of the supposed victories in the contract were far from that. Employee tiers remained, the air conditioning concessions that were widely celebrated were overstated, and concessions had been made.
Shortly after the contract ratification Labor Notes, who loudly supported the TA before the vote, released this article detailing the many Teamsters that would have preferred a strike.
As detailed in the Cosmonaut article, communists, socialists and progressive labor widely supported the TA even after the actual rank and file Teamsters had overwhelmingly voted in favor of striking. Now we are seeing the opportunist reactionary labor aristocrat Shaun O’Brien that they all fell in line behind show his true colors.
All the fucking labor notes hacks in TDU and all the socialist orgs that didn’t condemn their shitty UPS contract should be ashamed of themselves.
If someone has “official write in status” then they are counted. Otherwise they are tossed.