We should still fight at those levels. Jam up the works by running unabashed Socialists for every school board, state legislative seat, etc. Force them to fight for every inch and do a full-court press on the fuckers.
I want us to start crashing local Dem party meetings too. No peace for genocide enablers
I'm already on the vote plane! I'm just going to skip the "main course" and choose more important things like which soda I want (local elections). It's not like team chicken is literally hiring people to organize against Steak (third parties), nor does team chicken even want competitive primaries as we saw after the pro-genocide chicken defeated less-pro-genocide Bowman this week. I mean, those cluckers claim to want "democracy" and then insult people when the voters get to choose between more than one chicken 🐔!
God this analogy sucks.
Most of those ghouls are old enough to remember Carter in 80. They are probably thinking about that right now.
Or we take over the plane and serve actually decent food for once.
You don't have to defend this system. The constitution is F-Tier slave owner defending garbage. Let's get rid of it
But if you don't fund the Nazis and dead kids with your labor, then YOU are the one who gets to starve to death 🙃
Great system
Sounds right to me.
I'm personally struggling with the idea of "democracy" being an ideal since I have grown to hate most people. I think the majority of people in America are simply not smart enough, nor have enough basic empathy for others, to be trusted to make good decisions. Someone convince me that some form of benevolent authoritarianism isn't the solution.
Or fight dirty and tell his supporters to stay home in November. Force AIPAC to buy both elections.
Devil's advocate for a sec... if elections can be "bought" because people are so apathetic or lazy that they need literally millions of dollars worth of advertising to convince them to vote, then maybe electoral democracy can't work?
I mean, if we can't trust the masses to make good decisions in elections how can we trust them to make good decisions in a post-revolutionary system? Maybe Mao was right about a cultural revolution or can people actually convert to our side en masse?
Is this a common thing? Foreign leaders just get to give special speeches in front of other countries' legislative bodies?
When is Xi going to address Congress 
Just wondering if anything good is happening somewhere. Maybe some local organizing wins? Would be nice to see something positive happening.
I know DSA gets dunked on here pretty hard, so hoping we can have a constructive conversation about how to make things better.
I'm a DSA member. Plz don't Ban me...
It's a smaller chapter in the deep south. There's a mix of people including MLS, Anarchists, and some baby-leftists. No !liberalism and we make fun of Democrats all the time.
What we're doing:
New member education
BDS, in particular handing out flyers with a list of companies to boycott
Attending Palestinian rallies and supporting the Palestinian rights orgs in our area
Tabling at Pride
Brake light clinics
...and we're starting a public transit campaign to improve service
What are we missing? What could we do better?
I love it when libs think living in places like China or Cuba is like living in a wasteland. The way some people talk about these countries you'd think these places looked like something out of Mad Max instead of thriving, prosperous nations. I'd like to write up some agit prop as a go-to resource on these countries. Examples of info I'd like to have handy:
Life expectancy
Cost of Healthcare
How much does it cost to ride an ambulance?
How much does childbirth cost?
What if I'm diabetic? What if I need therapy for mental health issues?
Crime rates, ex: number of thefts / 10000 people
Rates of people suffering from depression
Suicide rates
Etc.
I believe the average person living in China has a higher quality of life than I do in burgerland, but I don't have hard figures to prove it. Help plz?
I am working on some proposals for my local DSA chapter (I know, !LIB) and am trying to find things we can do that a) actually help Palestine, b) aren't just performative, and c) aren't going to get my comrades arrested or fired. I have a couple ideas but am hoping folks here have better ones:
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Print pro-Palestine stickers, put on business store fronts (taken from https://hexbear.net/post/956137)
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Research businesses in the area that fund Israel or do business with Israel. Expose them
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Create information campaign "this business supports genocide." Create stickers, graphics, and flyers to inform people about Sabra, Burger King, McDonald's support for genocide. "McGenocide... I'm loving it?", "Welcome To Burger King... where bombing children's hospitals rule"
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Individual targeting campaign. A tit-for-tat against Zionist doxing of college students who speak in support of Palestine. Are there prominent CEOs, influential figures, elected officials in the area who have publicly supported Israel's genocide or attacked Palestine? Let's expose them, let their neighbors know who they live near, etc.
I posted something like this yesterday but it was buried deep in a thread.
Any ideas? Anything obvious I missed?
