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Rainer

4 months

This week the local voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution to join our union brothers & sisters in Nashville, Detroit, Durham & Austin to call for a Ceasefire & an end to genocide in Palestine. Here are my comments on the motion from the floor :

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

2 months

"Somebody's gonna die" is a special kind of threat when it comes from a guy working at the Somebody's Gonna Die Factory for Somebody's Gonna Die, Inc.

HOT SPOT

@HotSpotHotSpot

2 months

Lockheed Martin employee pulls a knife out on protestors in Sunnyvale, California for blocking the entrances and making him late to work

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@Anthroptimism

4 years

So we're at the feds murking antifascists point of counterrevolution. Got it.

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@Anthroptimism

3 years

@allisongeroi The only thing better than feeling underqualified while rewriting my resume is kissing each of the downy curves of a prospective employers ass by pulling phrases out of their mission statement and smashing them together with action verbs

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@Anthroptimism

2 months

Students screened The Battle of Algiers at the Stanford encampment last night. "You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you. The world belongs to you"

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@Anthroptimism

6 years

So my comrade left her bedroom windows open last night and look whomst she found under the pillow next to her this AM 😬

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@Anthroptimism

5 months

From Gramsci's speech to the Italian parliament, 1925

Paolo Berizzi

@PBerizzi

5 months

Roma, Italia, 2024. Vergogna di Stato. #AccaLarentia

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@Anthroptimism

3 years

The union crew walked off & drafted resignation letters citing 3 weeks' non-payment, lack of gun & Covid safety protocols, producers pulling adequate hotel accommodations, among other issues. Alec Baldwin & the other producers hired scabs instead of addressing the crew's concerns

IndieWire

@IndieWire

3 years

Prop Gun Fired by Alec Baldwin Contained Live Bullet, Says IATSE Local 44 (Update) "IATSE Local 44 sent an email that said the gun used in the scene contained 'a live round' and the production's propmaster was not a member of Local 44."

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

6 years

Great flyer doxx by comrades on E6th. Some more info on Jason Van Dyke, (Proud Boy featured in the top left photo). He’s still a barred lawyer in Texas somehow, even though he likes to send nooses and death threats to black folks and post white supremacist diatribes on Stormfront

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@Anthroptimism

2 years

At a cousin's wedding rehearsal the elders of each family got up to bless the food & when the groom's family (pentecostal) all started speaking in tongues, my great grandma (85, Baptist) opened her eyes & looked around in utter disbelief. One of the funniest things I've ever seen

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@Anthroptimism

6 months

"Burnout isn't real" is one hell of a thing to say to tens of thousands of comrades who aren't paid to do organizing work & who do everything they possibly can for the movement with the remaining limited labor power that hasn't been stolen by bosses & further stolen by landlords

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

9 months

My foreman said " @UAW needs to get back to work" & I said "This a union job & thats some scab talk". My JW laughed his ass off & my foreman said "They're fuckin the stock market up". I said "What do you think is more real, the stock market, or their lives?" He didn't say shit lol

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

3 years

The irony of the "antifa bus" trope is that we don't need to bus ourselves in from across the country or rent half a dozen penske trucks like fascists do, because we are defending the communities we live in. If we're taking a bus, its the metro

Sam Levin

@SamTLevin

3 years

NEW: Records reveal that California police sent an aircraft to search for a nonexistent "antifa bus" after reading rightwing conspiracy theories on Instagram and Facebook

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@Anthroptimism

1 month

It's been said that a Trump re-election will empower these guys, but the hegemony of white reaction is already State-sanctioned & enforced by police terror - the only power that can defeat white reaction is the force of a poor & laboring class that has formed itself into a weapon

Stacey J. Spiehler

@StaceyJSpiehler

1 month

A counter-protester jumps up and down and hoots like a monkey toward a protester who was live-streaming on her phone at @OleMiss today. Chants of “lock her up” as the Dean of Students ( @marsh_brent ) and multiple law enforcement agencies regain order.

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@Anthroptimism

8 months

We MUST unlearn the urge to thread the needle in moments of rupture, afraid to ruffle feathers. What we should unequivocally renounce are imperialist & apartheid apologetics of DSA electeds in office & declare unwavering support for revolutionaries taking the boot off their neck

DSA

@DemSocialists

8 months

DSA is steadfast in expressing our solidarity with Palestine. Today’s events are a direct result of Israel’s apartheid regime—a regime that receives billions in funding from the United States. End the violence. End the Occupation. Free Palestine. 1/5

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@Anthroptimism

8 months

I hope comrades see laid bare so clearly in this moment that communists criticize opportunism & revisionism not simply on merely ideological / abstract grounds, but moreso because these lines mean life or death, victory or defeat, resilience or capitulation in moments of rupture

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@Anthroptimism

3 years

@paynus3 @twitersbadboy Then there is a subset of guy whose personality is shaped around the four cursed Davids : Navarro, Grohl, Matthews & Fincher

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@Anthroptimism

3 years

@bad_takes Imagine a news channel so devoid of news all they do is rehash culture war bits from IDW YouTube ca 2017

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@Anthroptimism

3 years

@YaBoyDannyBlaze @MATHnBASKETBALL @DragonflyJonez When Michael Jordan does you so dirty that you age 20 years before his feet touch the ground

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@Anthroptimism

2 years

We'd like to thank the admins at Northwestern for making @DemSocialists sound cool af

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@Anthroptimism

25 days

For the record, here is what the previous NPC majority admitted about their own lines of communication with AOC

aaron from queens 🇵🇸

@aaronnarraph

25 days

for context: the NPC majority has failed to meet with AOC's office for 6 months. the last time they met with *any* of our federal electeds' offices was 5 months ago pretty rich to complain you have "no continuing relationship" when you can't even be bothered to ask for a meeting

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@Anthroptimism

2 years

Every few years Bernie does his song & dance and so many good comrades (myself formerly included) get starry eyed again for a time, lose sight of what it will really take to win the day against capitalism for yet another electoral cycle, entertain the political logic of the State

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@Anthroptimism

10 months

A union brother dm'ing earlier today : "Do you organize with any org outside of your local? I meet a shit load of DSA peeps doing IBEW stuff lol. They are everywhere haha" Me, today : "everywhere you say?" 🤭

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@Anthroptimism

7 months

It was good for the movement that Bernie got so many to imagine a better world was possible, but it's an even greater good that we can now finally free ourselves of the albatross of his imperial & genocide apologia. A fallen "Israel" in his lifetime & a Free Palestine in ours! 🇵🇸

Daniel Denvir

@DanielDenvir

7 months

It’s so tragic that Bernie is vaporizing his reputation and legacy among so many young people who were first politicized and radicalized by his presidential campaigns.

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

4 years

Hard to overstate bourgeois hegemony when one billionaire is using the Department of Education to try to force our children & teachers back to contagion filled schools while her billionaire brother is sending his private mercenaries to commit war crimes against Portlanders daily.

Shane Burley בד

@shane_burley1

4 years

This is one of e more shocking videos of what police have done at the #PortlandProtest . Holding someone down in CS gas.

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@Anthroptimism

6 months

Nauseating propaganda aside, the idea that we can end capitalism & imperialism in a way that keeps us all comfortable, safe, risk free is a denial of the revolutionary necessity so deep that it will someday point such cowards to list-making liquidationism against comrades in arms

Meagan Day

@meagankday

6 months

Organized democratic mass politics isn’t easy, but it’s got a great track record and doesn’t involve mowing down elderly women with machine guns. Many on the Palestinian left, which is not a monolith dominated by Hamas, actually prefer it to terrorist attacks on civilians

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@Anthroptimism

3 years

@feraljokes Macy's Thanksgiving Parade is already on it

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

4 years

To all the op speculation : lets say you're right, the message conveyed is still "We'll fucking murder you w impunity even while the whole nation has eyes on you". If you're wrong, your speculation still has the net effect of propagating fear and isolation. Repression either way.

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@Anthroptimism

3 years

He perch

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@Anthroptimism

3 years

@crookedroads770 Grade A Dad shit, congrats on your victory

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@Anthroptimism

10 months

For everyone who tells you the IBEW ain't worth a shit, that it's a reactionary lost cause - we're out here, we're determined to change the nature of the organization for the better and we don't fuckin play

keith bb

@TRAILSANDWAYS

10 months

sparks of class struggle unionism in the IBEW ranks take down a venture capital "disruptor"💡⚡️

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@Anthroptimism

8 months

Boy there sure are a lot of cowards flinching and traitors sneering lately

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@Anthroptimism

7 years

1/ Eyewitness acct frm St Louis last night, where 250 protesters took refuge in a synagogue & 7 SWAT buses came &arrested many for no reason

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@Anthroptimism

7 months

Imo variety tactics should be used in conjunction, but to say that a phonebank of 200 people wherever they are is less individualistic than 1000s of comrades in multiple cities shutting down ports long emough to give unions across the world time to refuse shipping is just - wrong

Anti Nate Silver

@AntiNateSilver

7 months

one of the first things i learned when moving from the disorganized left into DSA is that most of the flashier, individualistic ways of confronting power (eg, direct action) were always way less effective than mundane modes of action done in concert with others (eg, phonebanks)

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@Anthroptimism

6 years

Here’s a look at the Texas Proud Boys’ “armory”, taken at Van Dyke’s house in Crossroads, TX, matched the paint and carpet to a featured video from earlier this year :

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@Anthroptimism

2 months

In the labor movement, in the tenant movement, in the youth & student movement, in the abolitionist movement, in the antiracist movement, in the socialist movement & everywhere we struggle to be free - cops are the enemy of the People, down to the very last one

reagan

@mxmimosa

2 months

what starts here changes the world

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@Anthroptimism

2 months

Oct 7 was the first time in my life that I felt so overwhelmed by hope that "hope" can't possibly capture the feeling. A new world is possible, its promise made real again through struggle. The Palestinians are leading the way for world liberation, the rest is in all of our hands

BlackRedGuard ☭ 🔻

@BlackRedGuard1

2 months

Did you, on October 7th, publically support the armed actions of the Palestinian resistance? That’s the dividing line on Palestine. If you opposed when the people rose up you are a waverer, a coward, and a middle of the roader who cannot be trusted.

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@Anthroptimism

3 years

@thetomzone

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@Anthroptimism

3 years

Here at Mom & Pop Landlords, LLC we help you reappropriate the majority of your wages, but in a farm to table, small business-y, Live, Laugh, Love kinda way. Read abt our very real plight in literally any news outlet: Help us pay for our 2nd mortgage & Telluride ski lodge today!

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@Anthroptimism

2 years

I've been on the job 6 months & my Journeyman just asked me how to join DSA. 🥲 It's a small victory, but feels really good nonetheless. Trade union consciousness can absolutely be won to socialism & communism, it just takes patience, organic relationships, agitation & solidarity

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@Anthroptimism

10 months

Welcome to the lathe of hell

Rainer

@Anthroptimism

1 year

Would totally vote for this, but we gotta make a draft of Bud w no sign so people don't make Bud say "Balls" or "I 💓 Zionism" or something

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@Anthroptimism

4 years

Just bc someone doesn't have a shelf full of theory, or hasn't been on the scene for yrs, doesnt mean we should call every new person on the streets an op when they make rash decisions. These are fucked up times. We'd be remiss to think we're promised a day in court at this point

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@Anthroptimism

4 months

It is so unbelievably low and vile to fedjacket comrades in your organization who are organizing against genocide & apartheid. Just because you don't share the same commitment and principles as the comrades you are shit talking, doesn't mean you have to be so fucking unprincipled

Genevieve 👁

@atgenevieve

4 months

if i were in the fbi and my job was to sabotage left organizing i’d wait for crisis moments and manipulate people into abandoning each other and whatever small amount of power they’ve built by demanding they adopt more and more absolutist positions and disavow anyone who won’t

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@Anthroptimism

8 months

Houston at its best 🇵🇸

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@Anthroptimism

8 months

Can't help but think we'd be in a stronger position in this conjuncture if there'd not been such subordination & repression of the movement for Palestinian liberation in our own org the last 2 years. This includes the gap opened up in that time for electeds to dither on the issue

Francesca

@francescamar6

8 months

two things seem clear: (1) DSA & the US left were painfully unprepared to meet this moment adequately; and (2) all the organizing, line struggles, and ideological consolidation of the last few years have made us readier than we’ve been in decades, even if still insufficiently so.

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@Anthroptimism

2 years

Attending the @MarxistUnityDSA Convention as an observer from @DSACommunists and we are hearing from Jack Conrad, August Nimtz & Gil Schaefer on which aspects of the strategy of Lenin and the Bolsheviks might apply directly (or not) to our situation today. Framing questions are :

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@Anthroptimism

7 years

@cityofprogress @peg_mclaugh @ericgarland Hi Eric fellow DSA member. If you want to talk to me about this, please feel free. Asking for 24,000 friends.

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@Anthroptimism

8 months

I know great betrayals like this may be difficult to accept for many still-radicalizing folks on the left, but it's a good thing the working class are our own protagonists and we don't have to depend upon cowards like Bernie for leadership anymore.

Bernie Sanders

@SenSanders

8 months

My statement on the continuing violence in Israel and Gaza.

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@Anthroptimism

6 months

Union caucus reading group let's fuckin gooooo

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@Anthroptimism

8 months

Sometimes I wonder if Bernie's cowardice on Palestinian liberation is bc he can't accept that the story he loves to tell about the "virtues" of communal life on kibbutz would have to be reframed as it is : that he was an active vanguard participant in zionist settler colonialism

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@Anthroptimism

6 months

The comrades at @NotesFrom_Below interviewed @DSACommunists about our structure, principles, cadre development, organizing work & our efforts inside & outside DSA to overcome proletarian disorganization through class struggle. Check it out here :

Building Cadre: An interview with the Communist Caucus

by Communist Caucus // Three comrades from the US (Ben M, Sarah M, and Rain S) discuss how they have built a caucus orientated towards worker and tenant organising within the Democratic Socialists of...

notesfrombelow.org

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@Anthroptimism

8 months

The cause of communism is righteous & just. If we backpedal from the cause to cover for politicians or to "save face" under pressure, the politicians will betray us & our enemies will hate us all the more. Have some principles & stay the course. We're on the right side of history

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@Anthroptimism

3 months

I learned so much from your example & grew so much as a communist while organizing with you in CC these last few years. When we storm the barricades in the struggle for the new world, we will carry you with us. Love you forever, comrade.

Rainer

@Anthroptimism

4 months

Just got some awful news that brings my heart so low & the only thing I can think to do w this feeling is to let it drive every ounce of my will & being into becoming part of the fist that shakes loose the chains we wear in this life & to make the communist future real together

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@Anthroptimism

3 years

@EMMAORYX Dungeon Keeper 2 hand best cursor

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@Anthroptimism

15 days

Prioritizing domestic issues at the cost of unending apartheid, genocide & war on the world's oppressed classes is right opportunism & social chauvanism; socialists & communists must uphold the struggles of the whole world's oppressed classes or we aren't worth the air we breathe

daniela 📚

@daniela127

15 days

This, from a DSA organizer I follow. Top priority for DSA is changing the US's position on Israel. Not improving conditions for working people in the US, or student debt relief, or immigration reform, or any of the other domestic issues that face our country. Instead, Israel. 1/

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@Anthroptimism

2 months

Finally, a non-marxist caucus in DSA

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@Anthroptimism

7 months

Nothing happens in a vacuum; the conjuncture we now find ourselves in wrt the primacy of Palestinian Liberation in this crucial moment lays at all of our feet, some certainly more than others. All who wish these comrades ill should search their hearts & take it as a great failing

Palestine Solidarity Working Group🇵🇸🌹

@PalestineSWG

7 months

We, as an organization, are no longer affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America and, moving forward, will be known simply as the Palestine Solidarity Working Group.

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@Anthroptimism

2 years

This DSA endorsed State Senator *just* won his primary in September, and barely a month later he's already openly inviting YIMBYs to come testify against zoning restrictions in Providence. Seems bad!

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@Anthroptimism

1 year

When they get to your commune and ask if you're communists

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@Anthroptimism

6 months

Tbh the only reasons DSA should discuss the 24 election is if Rashida Tlaib runs or if we commit to a campaign of fiery, socialist, oppositional messaging. Every single other candidate has so betrayed our movement, what utility could there be? A million more pressing issues rn

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@Anthroptimism

3 years

@The_Law_Boy I give it three days till online calculates the actual impact force that was applied to that dudes forehead and the police union starts tweeting "this cop hero was poked with the blunt force of 3.23 irritable toddlers!"

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@Anthroptimism

4 years

@LonestarTallBoi @mcmansionhell She's Lucille with tobias' sense of propriety

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@Anthroptimism

8 months

Everytime a mealy mouthed Harringtonite anticommunist rage quits DSA for standing strong on issues which socialists should fight for such as ending apartheid, their bad vibes depressurize enough to fit 10-20 new good vibes communists under the big tent

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1 year

9 months in the trade so far & I'm still loving it! ✊️👷🏼‍♂️

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@Anthroptimism

7 years

"The bankers who destroyed our economy, stole your 401K, foreclosed on homes, go visit them in jail. Wait, they're not there" @JordanChariton

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@Anthroptimism

11 months

Today marks 4 years of marriage w my ride or die comrade 🥰

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@Anthroptimism

2 years

I remember when Danny Fetonte came to Houston to try & whip support from us & I told him he was fucked & there wasn't a way to spin organizing cops, period. Maybe I thought those days were behind us, but socialists should feel the same about ICE, Border Patrol & Bureau of Prisons

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@Anthroptimism

27 days

Not sure how verified the supposed fracturing of SAlt is & want to respect comrades going through it right now, but I highly encourage anyone coming out of the org to take time to reset & then come join the largest socialist org in the country when you're ready to get back at it

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@Anthroptimism

2 years

Work and organizing has been pretty intense lately, but we have some exciting news that has been keeping me going. Little Taurus should be joining us in early May👨🏼‍🍼

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@Anthroptimism

6 months

Not just on a personal level, but on a political discipline & solidarity level, it's incredibly unbecoming of NPC members to be petty mudslining at comrades who've been in the org so long. When your anticommunism has done as much for the cause as our organizing has, let us know!

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@Anthroptimism

2 years

Goddamn does this org need comprehensive political education for all members, especially electeds. Socialists in office should be able to describe the ills of capitalism w such clarity & scope that the unaffiliated class rises up in accord w the socialist vision & joins the cause

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.

@JamaalBowmanNY

2 years

It’s time for world leaders to come together and figure out what the hell is going on with humanity. We are sick. And this sickness is killing our children. It’s time to stop and rebuild humanity.

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1 year

"How to build a YIMBY/Tenant Activist Bridge" gotta be up there as a contender for one all time worst tenant/housing twitter ideas I've ever seen

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@Anthroptimism

4 years

@Boringstein He's also a total sweetheart. Used to come into my vegan food truck in Austin all the time to eat and shoot the shit.

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@Anthroptimism

4 years

@jamie_elizabeth Turn Emma Vigeland communist

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@Anthroptimism

6 months

📚 I've been putting together a multi-year political education series for the building trades that I plan to start next year at trade school & the apprentice committee. Here's what I've got so far :

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@Anthroptimism

8 months

All yall "both sides" mf can kiss both sides of my ass

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@Anthroptimism

2 years

At some point we have to decide whether we stand for Socialism, or whether we accept the terms of Capital & our class enemies; will we suspend our movement within a simulacra of power, ruling from the sidelines? There is a line in the sand. I know on which side a red banner flies

David S. Duhalde

@TheDuhalde

2 years

All I know about this DSA YIMBY/NIMBY discourse is some people really assume there is a clear line on a subject that other people such as myself don’t really understand or the org has not set out any position on. Let’s be fair to each other and honest about actual stances.

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@Anthroptimism

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"I gotta get to my killin' people job, or else Somebody's Gonna Die!"

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@Anthroptimism

3 months

Really concerned by the implication that we need megadonors, opening DSA up to the type of smears we see other orgs face about millionaire proprietors, perceived or actual influence the money may purchase, or that fulltime political leadership should be so focused on fundraising

Groundwork: Socialists Must Lead!

@GroundworkDSA

3 months

Our passive fundraising makes us helpless passengers, who can only throw each other overboard to stay afloat afloat. When we organize for a party-level economic foundation at the same level we organize for everything else, we'll rise to the next level.

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@Anthroptimism

5 months

Would love for National @DemSocialists to join @dsa_intl_comm & sign onto South Africa's Genocide Convention Case against the zionist entity

Progressive International

@ProgIntl

5 months

BREAKING: More than 900 popular movements, unions, political parties, and other organizations have signed an open letter calling on states to support South Africa's Genocide Convention case against Israel.

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@Anthroptimism

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The zionist entity has broken ceasefire agreements 180x in the last 75 years along w human rights law & the Geneva accords. They're committing genocide w such cruel, unceasing violence that they knowingly kill their own people to do so. Ceasefire will not hold, "Israel" must fall

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

8 months

JUST IN: Israeli official says there will be 'no ceasefire' in Gaza

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@Anthroptimism

4 years

@andersleehere Easy, Brace Belden

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@Anthroptimism

4 months

As socialists we're compelled to protest & polemicize electoral candidates that conflict with our democratically decided political program. What is more important, abolition & Palestinian liberation or letting the political establishment know for certain we're no threat to them?

DSA-LA 🌹

@dsa_losangeles

4 months

DSA-LA Censures Councilmember Nithya Raman, Maintains Endorsement -

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@Anthroptimism

11 days

Gotta hand it to the DSA Fund, hosting not 1 but 2 events about housing without asking DSA's own Housing Commission to design, moderate or consult on the content would almost be a good bit if it wasn't so weird and straight up fuckin rude

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@Anthroptimism

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@wrappingline I don't mean this as a bad faith dunk tbc, but I 100% agree & we should include the folks who spent the last few years repressing the BDS WG. Have heard a lot about how certain cuts will affect "real organizing", but no admission that we failed these comrades at critical moments

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

7 months

"While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it & while there is a soul in prison, I am not free" aint just some slogan. Some of yall need to figure out where your loyalties lie; this goes doubly during times of active political repression

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@Anthroptimism

8 months

There have now been multiple events of fascist violence against demonstrations for Palestine in the last 24 hours. They are prepared to defend fascist violence abroad with fascist violence at home. When the situation changes, we must change our tactics and strategies along w them

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@Anthroptimism

8 months

The revolutionary horizon of the tenant movement isn't homeownership, its the end of capitalism, the abolition of private property & the landlord & boss class, the end of the extraction & repression of our lives, safety & autonomy - the abolition of tenancy through class struggle

Ryan in Buffalo

@slavojtrex

8 months

I’ve noticed a lot of people think that being a tenant is “wrong” somehow. Even most “tenant organizers” seem to view tenants as temporarily embarrassed land owners who should, under ideal economic circumstances, own a home, regardless of whether or not they want to

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

9 months

Retvrn

By Graham and Ian🌹🪟

@AlisonB916

9 months

It should be illegal to evict elders.

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

4 years

All we ever have is our intuition, OSINT, what we know about *our own* communities, what we've experienced or witnessed in person, or at best, whatever shit gets leaked or declassified when we're old and gray. The State will always have a monopoly on this. So why speculate?

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@Anthroptimism

3 months

If this is true A) it's GOOD B) it means solidarity dues can *help pave a path forward C) ppl dunking on comrades in this state of flux only detract from that solidarity w bad faith D) we still need to reckon w the proportion of staffing : overall expenses & the nature of the org

Frances

@francesloretta

3 months

Today's updated figures from B&F showed that the 2024 DSA deficit projections were overestimated by $420,000 dollars. As these deficit figures have been used by 10 NPC members to justify the need to lay off nearly 40% of staff, we call for the NPC to reconsider in light of this.

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

8 months

Me, sincerely : my comrades have spent a lot of time & effort trying to articulate their vision. I may often disagree, but I should take it seriously & really hear what they have to say Me when the @MarxistUnityDSA materials arrive : "Kautskémon Red & Blue - Gotta Kautsk'em all!"

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@Anthroptimism

10 months

I truly disagree and believe that giving and receiving comradely criticism is actually one of the most essential skills we can practice for the cause of socialism

Isaiah Thomas

@ILavelleThomas

10 months

As a Socialist I have no right to legitimately critique other left organizations or parties, I may have gripes, but nonetheless shut the f*ck up, organize, and win. Otherwise you’re some weirdo who likes left wing aesthetics emulating rampant selfish egoism like an individualist!

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

3 months

Respectfully, there are millions more people who are daily subsumed in totalizing alienation, having the value of their labor expropriated by a boss, who are even further extorted in rent payments to landlords, than who consider voting to be a meaningful, much less political act

aparna 🌸

@largeaparna

3 months

I’m a union member & I came to DSA through tenant organizing, and we should invest in tenant & labor, but we cannot cede electoral ground when that is where the vast majority of people in this country (people we’re trying to win towards socialism), primarily engage with politics

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

2 years

Not gonna quote tweet it, bc I'm not trying to dogpile on that person, but even my 4-time college dropout ass knows that class is a relationship to the means of production, not a peice of paper you hang up on your wall

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@Anthroptimism

6 months

Our son joined chess club this year (6th Grade), so we got him a soviet chessboard (1963) and mechanical clock (1970s) for us to practice with at home

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Rainer

@Anthroptimism

29 days

Had to rock the union tie clip🤵🏼‍♂️👶🏼👩🏽👱🏼

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@Anthroptimism

2 years

We're excited to announce the launch of the Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee (ETOC) to establish, train & mentor new member-run tenant unions! Everywhere there is a landlord, we're prepared to organize & fight! Sign up if you'd like to organize a tenant union in your area ✍️

DSA Housing Justice Commission 🌹🌆

@dsa_housing

2 years

We are excited to announce the Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee (ETOC) program! ETOC is a program for supporting comrades interested in building mass democratic tenant unions that can fight the landlord and build our collective power.

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@Anthroptimism

1 year

Apparently it bears repeating that socialists shouldn’t be rubbing elbows w YIMBY orgs like Open NY, nor should they be speaking to media about it! In my capacity as a leader in DSA's housing work, I condemn such collaboration in the strongest terms as unprincipled & unacceptable

Rainer

@Anthroptimism

2 years

Gonna go ahead & say that people paid to staff this organization should not be openly or otherwise advocating pro-development capital politics and should seriously consider whether or not they are actually socialist or someone whose political ascension better befits the Dem Party

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