He stans every so called "progressive" that walks through the door. Mfrs literally been glazing Platner, a guy who literally has a nazi tattoo, went to war so he could kill some people, and worked as a private mercenary on top of that.
I think I'm about ready to switch to something QT based. Whether that is LXQT, KDE, or Trinity is still to be determined.
I'm a long time xfce user and my battle with CSD has ended with me losing. Too much stuff just breaks. I've more or less been forced to use adwaita as my theme for everything.
Hell, I'm already running plenty of QT software already.
NOoOooOO you can't call out the failings of our dSSa Democrats! Voting and organizing around them is the only thing American leftists are allowed to doOoOOO. 😤
This isn't a revolution now stance, this is a "You are literally not challenging power in any way" stance.
Democratic party entryism is a death cult for you. You guys just gobble that shit up. Ignore every other country that managed to make a 3rd party, ignore every other possible strategy. America is just soo exceptional! We've tried 1 strategy for almost 100 years and refuse to try anything else! That's the only strategy that'll work here! Trust me, it'll work this time!
Ah the counter-revolutionary opportunist position rears its head again.
"Would you have us make a 3rd party and systematically lose every election because the way our voting system works?"
Yes. Even if you feel like dogmatically applying Lenin's strategies from 100 years ago, you're still doing it wrong. Endorsing a legitimate labor party is far different than endorsing a democrat that pinky promises to be more left. And even if you were applying that strategy, you'd still be ignoring the knowledge we have today of this strategy repeatedly and consistently not working.
"Or perhaps part of the job of the socialist movement is to engage with the bourgeois structures where they exist today to build the power necessary to do away with them."
No. There is no peaceful reformist path to socialism and even if there was, you're not going to build power in the organization that has proven repeatedly to stifle anyone who will not adopt it's line (ie the rigging of the democratic primary against Bernie Sanders)
"What a laughably dismissive comment"
Yeah, because your lot have shown 0 reason to feel any other way.
I do agree with that, but what will separate him from the rest is if he calls attention to the fact that its happening and still holds firm to his beliefs when the entire establishment is against him.
My issue isn't that he isn't pure enough, it's that he's running with a bad crowd, and everyone else I can think of who ran with that crowd got neutered into being useless. (AOC comes to mind)
He's already said that he thinks the police department is an appropriate size and wasn't gonna increase it. But wasn't the issue that it was already oversized to begin with? Even in DSA, downsizing and cutting funding for the police is a popular position. The fact that some of his most progressive positions are to the right of many DSA members I've met IRL and online does not invoke confidence.
What I see often too is supporters of DSA-Democrats defending their move to the right in order to be more palatable to the general public and win an election, but when you do this YOU become more right wing, the PUBLIC does not move more left. You must always challenge capitalism to have an effective socialist program.
Where do you live where they aren't?
I go to gas stations, fast food places, everywhere has napkins and sauce packets.