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Any significant structural changes wpuld probably need a couple of years to start showing up in the death count, get addicted to fent -> die two years later…

Did anything historical happen in 2008?

DSA just doesn’t purge people - we’ve never done that.

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I’ll come at this from a different angle: Zohran’s behavior in office is a measure of NYC-DSA’s ability to discipline their candidates and their ability to learn from AOC.

We shouldn’t be saying “Zohran is a sheepdog” or w/e we should be saying “DSA come get your man”

A majority of Jews support the entity, and New York is the most Jewish major city in the US. It makes a lot of sense that it came up

HR departments are also more labor law concious and less likely to just fire everyone than random small buisness people, but they’re also less likely to be intimidated by threats about ULPs, its a mixed bag

Ime having someone being paid to be a substitute (even if it means losing staffing) is better because then management isnt putting pressure on people to not call out.

Another way to address staffing is to write in hour minimums for employees that are higher than you normally get, that way theres just more people around generally.

The time-and-a-half rule is almost never used because once it was in the contract, manager immediately installed amazing air conditioning

Your issues are classic union issues and can absolutely be addressed in a contract!

A sandwich chain up in Seattle won time-and-a-half for whenever the kitchen gets above 82 degrees https://inthesetimes.com/article/working-people-homegrown-sustainable-sandwiches-strike

Some contracts have requirements that the boss has to get the schedule out two weeks in advance and give full-time hours to people with seniority.

Unions also have bully boss trainings about how to push back on bad bosses

All of your grievances are things you guys can address collectively

Oh no, it was rude as hell, but being in community where we’re actually accountable to each other means pulling them aside and privately going “dude wtf” and then doing a polite and formal public apology.

The internet flaming was unfortunate and gauche, but the kind of shit you get with MLs since most of them were radicalized online before they started IRL organizing.

So full disclosure I’m an anarchist but generally I like having either Red Star or Bread and Roses in leadership. Red Star is big on setting priorities for chapters and then having the whole chapter throw their weight behind it, which is exhausting when that priority is a candidate campaign and very cool when its anything else.

They also are big on two-camp anti-imperialism, which can sometimes be useful at cutting through the bullshit but can lead to edge lord behavior like the time they cyber-bullied a trot for being rude to a Cuban diplomat or the time they released a pamphlet entitled “we commend hamas.” Like, neither of those things are neccesarily wrong, but theyre internet behavior, not irl organizing behavior.

Red Star is the only ML caucus with a seat on the NPC. MUG is Kautskyist and imo struggles with being under practiced and organizing and having an electoral bent.

Communist Caucus is also ML but abstains from leadership elections, instead focusing on poaching DSA people for tenant, labor and anti-prison organizing. When they need something to happen nationally they usually lobby Bread and Roses (the pro-labor center caucus) to bring it forward for them.

Imo theyre the realest caucus in DSA by a long shot.

Theres also local ML caucuses like Black Red Guard’s thing, Red Labor, and Emerge.

If you count the trots, the left has a slight majority. If you dont count them (and you shouldn’t) then the left has a plurality.

Bread and Roses (post trot labor-notes core) and Reform and Revolution (A split from Socialist Alternative) are now the king makers, so expect DSA’s foreign policy to continue to be rough.

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Wait, so why have I been paying a subscription based clinic in LA to give me stool transplants when I’ve been getting the necessary gut diversity from my fetish this whole time? Waste of fucking money.

Wait a minute something isnt adding up here

I looked up the macros and cow milk has three times as much protein in it as human milk

America’s largest socialist organization, the Democratic Socialists of “America” just changed their by-laws to allow participation by democratic-centralist groups at their national convention.

This is an end to the tenuous situation where multiple groups in the Bolshevik tradition (Marxist Unity Group, Reform and Revolution, and Red Star) were practicing democratic centralism in violation of the organizations’ by-laws which went un-enforced due to the left’s majority on the organization’s steering committee “the National Coordinating Committee.”

Meanwhile, following their South American comrades, many American anarchists are embracing democratic centralism under the framework of Especifismo, an uruguayan formulation of anarchism syncretizing the practices of Focoist groups in the 50s with Anarchism. Great examples of this are the Center for Especifismo Studies and Black Rose / Rosa Negra (BRRN).

These developments show that the American left is beginning to take itself seriously and adopt techniques which have proven historically successful.

Its the way people on this site can tell me about the nuances of “water based cooking” but redditors only say the same 6 things (and they’re all evil) that tells me how deeply astroturfed that website is

Anything where we can make and solidify gains on an incremental basis: for example, union drives, contract fights, tenant organizing, expanding land trusts.

The best is if these activities either: let us practice self management (for example, creating housing and business coops) or put us in direct conflict with the capitalist class (for example, a contract fight) or better yet, both (a contract fight in a union like UE, IATSE or the ILWU).

I actually think certain forms of electoralism can dovetail really nicely with this, if you run ballot initiatives that increase your capacity to organize (like, you could do a tenants rights initiative enforced through self-help and then organize people to do self-help en masse).

The old CPUSA of the 30s - 50s used to talk about “developing leaders” through union activity. So you’d organize a strike at a plant, find people who were really into it and then deliberately on-ramp them into the party. This way you’re making both incremental gains for the class (in the contract) while also deepening the bench for your movement. There’s no reason that organizing economic self-help like coops or tenant organizing couldn’t develop leadership the same way.

People think there’s only two options: Shredder or Master splinter, but I’m here to tell you there’s an alternative: A socialist alternative. I’m here to advocate for every-day working people: for the goons getting clobbered by nunchuks for $14 bucks an hour and without healthcare! The turtles and shredder fight, nobody wins. We are calling on all goons to lay down their arms and refuse to fight a Mutants’ war.

What you’ve gotta understand is that hes a DSA-right guy. He wants to win people over to socialism by running socialist campaigns on the democratic ballot line and eventually become an independent party at some indeterminate point in the future.

He’s read Marx, thinks hes a communist, kind of is in some important ways, but his praxis is Sewer Socialism.

“We need to fully fund the police and keep response times fast” = “create alternative crisis response to reduce police workload”

“Israel has a right to exist as a democratic state” = “Israel doesnt have a right to exist”

“We should make the democrats better” = “we should win races as socialists within the democratic party to create a split”

The NFL stuff is based on a note NYPD “”“found”“” on his body, just like they “”“found”“” a statement of intent on luigi and “”“find”“” an unregistered fire arm on the body of every black man they kill in Harlem.

I’m calling it now, this was a sane man setting out to kill the CEO of Blackstone for what theyre doing to nursing homes and the housing market. The NFL stuff is NYPD and the media trying to prevent this from getting away from the like it did with Luigi.

Let’s not forget that Blackrock is a plurality owner of United Health"““care””"! edit: this is Blackstone which is different. Also not to be confused with Blackwater the PMC.