I largely agree with your post, the concern is that as we do our best to spread our vision of a socialist future, there are like 100 different fascist rabbit holes with tons of resources that we are competing against. The “proper ideology” isn’t in the left-sectarian sense, but the socialism or barbarism sense.
True, it’s positive that people are seeing beyond the usual boundaries, but concerning where people will end up, as you said. I hope they rely on the orgs that were present Saturday, which included representation from the unions, DSA, PSL, FRSO and others. What ive heard is that most people who came out on Saturday were not there as individuals (obviously the scope of our concern is beyond this particular incident).
So this was a protest organized by the unions with a “no kings” vibe with a lot of “peaceful protest only” liberals, their families, and people on the older side. From what I understand the plan was to march around the block past the facility, but a couple dozen people went up to the gate so they gassed the whole crowd, almost all of whom were just standing, marching and chanting for like 10 minutes after coming down from the park up the street.
The whole thing will escalate the radicalization of the 10-15k people who were there. This is also part of the ICE directive, ramp up the intensity until somebody snaps and does an adventurism.
Encourage them to do it. The more they want it, all the more internal strife that will be distracting the US from exploiting the global south.
Correct, Celsius is not kelvin
Its useful for science, although it isn’t even an SI unit and is just as arbitrary as F
There are several chapters that are exactly that cool.
“DSA sucks” with no further detail or nuance is just ripping a popular take from online, just like the liberal china-bashing in the OP.
I wonder if AIM has an ally branch/org
This, but unironically
Where im at $13 gets you the burger by itself, no fries and no drink.
Liberal/progressive Americans have never fought for anything and expect the magic wand to show up. If they were to step up for the first time in their lives in Oregon and get crushes by the feds or Democrats or whoever, that will be valuable experience for them.
Same goes for the Mamdani campaign. Let them go full socdem, since for many of us it was radicalizing to watch the Bernie campaign get crushed (except me, I was reading Stalin and Mao in the womb and was born the one true leftist).
Canada’s healthcare system was a province by province rollout. Your points are concerns, but they are not impossible to address.
Democrats have created a committee to do a two year project to create a universal health plan which will then need to be legislated/amended and will almost certainly go to a statewide vote.
Would be cool to see it go live, but there are a ton of hurdles in the way. Portland DSA and some other orgs are starting to use it as a flag to rally around.
One would imagine that WA and CA could join their single program if it exists.
It’s an illegitimate country on stolen land anyway. Nothing wrong with running it back and starting over.
The People’s Republic of Cascadia stands with the Minnesota Democratic Republic in their struggle against the genocidal American imperial entity.
Yeah that’s why I’m explicitly directing our comrades here to actively work against that. If it were to happen (it won’t, but it’s more fun to act like we live in the good timeline (:bloomer:)), we finally have a shot at being a part of a decolonial movement, but that work starts decades in advance (now!).
If you want to will this into reality, it is critical that you educate yourself and those around you about the indigenous history of your land, lest you simply reproduce a settler-colonial entity (but smaller?)
American Indians generally weren’t citizens until 1924
If you have an HOA or neighborhood association, join up to make these connections and make sure there aren’t any boomers up to funny business about how people should now their lawns and stuff.
If you live in city limits, attend city council meetings and get to know your city leadership.
Join any group that does a land acknowledgement and hold them accountable to that (if anything, by further educating them about the people of the stolen land they are acknowledging), even if its a bunch of liberals who don’t want to do anything cool.
Go to a volunteer workday at a local park/green space.
What helps is focusing on my local community. You can apply theory freely to making the world a better place right outside your front door.
It is wise to be aware of complex global issues, but I think that taking part of a discussion on the (global) internet is going to feel ungrounding because of the diversity of participants and the increased complexity. A more local or regional focus offers a “big fish in a small pond” effect and can feel very grounding, since legacy media that people around you consume is going to have a national or global focus.