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Public will doesnt matter but constituency does. If there are people in power who want to be anti- Israel and think there’s an anti Israel donor base, it frees them up to take that position

The real question is if there’s more mtgs in congress

Its a difference in what it means to unionize

For radicals, to unionize is to come together to use direct action to forward a common goal at work. This is what the knights of labor and the IWW meant.

For most Americans, it means to give a mass-membership non-profit the right to bargain an employment contract on your behalf within the framework of US contract and labor law

This second thing is a legal right which can be given or taken, and it is the legal right Newsome just gave to contractors.

The internet makes things move faster

To my understanding the left overplayed its hand in the gpcr and got routed by developmentalist liberals at a time when the global consensus was shifting towards addressing the global downturn through liberalization, overdeterminating China’s liberal shift.

It’s really shocking to me that your basic left wing talking points are meeting so much resistance from people talking about hard choices and Reagan type “rising tide lifts all boats” rhetoric.

Some peoples politics on this website seem to be ptolemeic constructions built around the central assumption of “China good.”

It’s kinda of wild to me that your arguing against “china should have a safety net.” And that economic anxiety could be exacerbating nationalist sentiment.

Like, yeah, there are larger trends like a global cultural shift towards neoliberalism, ethnocentrism and nationalism and it can’t solely be looked at through the lense of economic anxiety, but this kind of strong reaction against that argument feels odd

Damn, trump posting that would be really eye opening for his followers if they were able to read

They’re addicted, it’s actually really sad

I kinda think Europe is in the beginning stages of a revolution. Not in the “workers seize the economy” sense, but like in the sense of the American revolution.

Theyre a smaller part of a larger empire and have some disagreements on the implementation of imperialism.

There’s also the same kind of alignment of the ruling class and working class over this, with the ruling class recognizing the PA while the working class strikes for Gaza.

There’s also them moving away from being clients of the US by building up their own military, expanding NATO

I think we’re watching a US-Euro split play out

I mean, probably a split between the DSA right and the DSA left rather than joining any existing org. Like, this multi-tendency left coalition emerged last convention: https://sordsa.org/ which points to the politics such an org might have

I think the big thing is going to be when the democrats finally kick out DSA affiliated folks and the question is going to be “leave the party?” Vs “stay in, move right, and keep the campaigning apparatus”

One can ask the same about the Mensheviks before their split

Its that they want somewhere green and quiet, which our cities should be but aren’t. They dont want community because theyve never had it and dont know to want it. But they have been to a farm before, maybe for Christmas or Halloween

Ive met folks who moved to the country to do organic farming, they had one of the following:

-a focus on cash crops like lavender, saffron or oyster mushrooms

-a secret grow op

-a tech worker girlfriend

-rich parents

Farming is not profitable and only the government or shenanigans can make it a living

“tall quad ristretto americano” are the magic words to get a decent coffee at starcucks

The south is underdeveloped and they have actual worms and then when they take their magic cure-all they actually feel better

My point is that ultras do good work

Weren’t Italy’s port unions originally red unions? And isnt red unionism like the defining feature of left communism?

Your description got me to realize that I didn’t realize Mueller and Comey were different people for almost a decade

Strikes leading to more strikes is propaganda of the deed in action. Not all propaganda of the deed is assassination

If propaganda by the deed doesn’t work, then why do strikes come in waves? Why do copy-cat actions happen?