Stopped clocks etc etc

Ok so it's broken containment so not gonna bother to keep asking people to take it down, but for the record I would rather not be a football in a pissing match over whether MUG really helped on Zohran or not. Helped some as I have for half a decade the less we could talk about it the better.

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Man I can't wait to be a washed up old crank. The wheels on this puppy are very wobbly.

The nerve...

"Hello! Please correct your reporting to reflect the fact that Brandon Johnson is not a DSA member and was not endorsed by Chicago DSA" -Me for two years.

It is enervating that the GW chieftains have convinced themselves because Chi will talk to them that he'll be Bowman 2 (affair aside he was a different level). Otoh genuinely unhinged that the IC thinks this guy is going to be their guy on Campism. How do you not get that this is a weird liar guy?

It's super dumb that meditating kind of works

Unironically MUG are the only Social Democrats in DSA

expanding on this (and i realize that its opaque) but like even among the "rightist" caucuses, you have SMC who are basically a fusion of dem socialism with post-Maoism, while GW came from a merger of ecosocialists with some folks who are (for lack of a better term) post-Stalinists

Idk y'all can believe whatever, but anyone actually involved knows Mamdani isn't trying to protect Jeffries. I wish Mamdani's strategy was more oppositional, but this is a debate about state vs federal/governance vs agitation/patience vs opportunism, not a mask off moment. Fuck him on Brad though.

Man it would be really nice, it I got to take the occasional break form my various neuroses

I love her: x.com/RashidaTlaib...

It's good Zohran speaks at our forums when he disagrees; it's because he views himself as a member. He's not perfect, but I have absolute confidence he's doing this out of a belief that this is what's best for the project. Alexa thing is some goody two shoes shit though and he can fuck off.

Renee isn't wrong here but let's be clear this is a direct consequence of the political incentives produced by 1m1v. NYC has kept much bigger secrets than this in member meetings, because voting synchronously meant you had to convince active members. Going to the press didn't help you.

I'll leave the real response to our SPA scholars, but I do find it funny Blanc's MUG Derangement Syndrome pushes him to contradict himself in one sentence.

There's no such thing as tiered endorsements. All endorsements eventually fall to the lowest standard at which resources are available. A mass party like DSA, cannot possibly show the deftness in resource allocation required for both categories to be meaningful and different.

Socialist Majority believes in a majoritarian movement for democratic socialism: we work together toward a bigger and unified DSA. We support the updated NYC-DSA dues page and applaud our SC members for voting to ensure there is only one standard of membership: national dues.

SMUG for life tbh

Why is it every choice I make eventually leads to me deciding I need to read the Phenomenology of Spirit again?

You bet your ass we will!

Peter Sterne seems like a fine guy but City and State is the enemy. If you're gonna leak scoops send it to Hell Gate

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Whether DSA or our electeds' defend abolitionism or not isn't a tactical question it's a strategic one. There is a profound cowardice involved in believing public sentiment can be read off polls. It saves you the dangerous tricky work of actually figuring out how to speak to anyone.

Saying "no you shouldn't lie about what I believe" = "an absolute opposition to compromise" is really telling on yourself lol

This gap is why we need a Min-Max program. The inability to walk and chew bubble gum on this stuff was one of the major failings of the 20th century left.

TBC both Portland DSA and the campaigns that elected their city council people were lead in major part by members of Reform & Revolution and Bread & Roses, 2 Trotskyist caucuses. Even when we disagree, the right of DSA has a lot more in common with the left than they do with people like you.

Resolution just passed by the "Ultra-Left" wing of DSA www.marxistunity.com/mugdsa-conve...

well we had some good faith, well-sourced journalism on DSA (shoutout @petersterne.com) so it was inevitable we'd be back to the slop eventually

FYI one of MUG's major disagreements with Groundwork (the larger of the two right caucuses) is that they support an eventual one party state and we oppose it. web.archive.org/web/20250825...

I wish a smaller proportion of DSA politics was absorbing whatever it is people need to emote at you so you can talk about whatever it is you actually need to talk about.

MUG mentioned: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/o...

Not seeing the hypocrisy here is kind of amazing. Also make sure the last of our three issues explaining our politics we were handing out at convention.

I guess Rashida is an Ultra now lol

Not on Twitter, but let it be known I too think RS's posturing as on the left electorally is cap x.com/chairmanmeow...

The one comfort about "Left YIMBYism" is that, like progressive free tradeism of the 90's, it will eventually become impossible to ignore that it can accomplish none of its stated objectives. When that happens, we will have another chance to build a real renter coalition of old tenants and new.

Fuck off asshole Zohran is a socialist www.thenation.com/article/poli...

New post on the substack! Tl;dr - people in DSA mean fundamentally different things when we say "democracy" or "more democratic" open.substack.com/pub/jantesla...

...Are we just gonna pretend super Tuesday 2020 didn't happen? Obama is certainly familiar with the distinction even if you aren't. Like I understand there's a lot of historical illiteracy but goddamn.

Has AOC ever responded this much to left critics before? This one seems to have gotten under her skin

Okay this is very bad but the phrase "mean of reality production" just bums me out man. You know TV doesn't make stuff real right?

Man I am so deeply grateful to every dumb, red baiting, Zionist Reformist who kept DSA and the democratic traditions of the very old left alive long enough for the Bernie left to land in DSA and not Our Revolution. x.com/gracchusstru...

Disagree, he's pretty cool.

I'm a Zohran Field lead and I want an independent party... also a break I can't believe I'm losing my Saturday's for another 5 months lol

Damn Zohran's finally made the big time

"OH you can be a YIMBY and a socialist; it's harm reduction there's no question of principle involved!" I say as I free base political rat poison...

Based