communist // third worldist // abolitionist gaia socialism // in the belly of the beast Amerikkka
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RT @NerdeenKiswani: Every single so-called progressive politician in the U.S. put together isn’t worth a single fingernail clipping off of…
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RT @NerdeenKiswani: My issue with the JVP protest isn’t that it was “performative.” Everything about protest has a performative dimension.…
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Because you force the arguments in the courts, and using genocide statutes can force the US government to actively defend genocide in court. It's not different to what Trump is doing by kidnapping Maduro and forcing Courts to address jurisdictional Qs over heads of State
In what world could he possibly arrest Netanyahu without it blowing up in his face and Netanyahu being released immediately
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DSA Rightist endless cycle:
- apologize for everything bad Mamdani does b/c the core organizing principle of the DSA Right is idol worship
- when DSA left engages, claim you’re not an apologist & support criticizing Mamdani for breaking promises
- go back to apologizing
Zohran should be held to what he ran on - disassembling GDB and SRG. It's a great mistake to attribute politicians' decisions to the 'personal.' Mamdani's admin is uplifting socialists throughout the country and across the world. Listen to what Die Linke said.
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“We are organizing to hold office to wield power” cannot be maintained with “we have so little power against the state once in office.” That is outright doublethink.
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Should be said but it goes back to the specificity of understanding the police in the US as a occupying army in black and brown communities. Opposing the police isn't using them for our "ends" or moving digits on a spreadsheet it's articulating a politics of community control
I’d respect Zohran’s association and collaboration with the NYPD a lot more if he actually weaponized them for socialism, against ICE and fascist federal encroachment. Instead he’s just letting Tisch re-run the Adams playbook and it’s not entirely clear why/what the long game is.
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"nebulous buzzwords like reparations" y'all are not beating the allegations lmfao
I was pushed out of Seattle dsa leadership along with my slate for prioritizing Medicare for all (this was during the Bernie years!) instead of nebulous buzzwords like disability justice/queer activism/reparations. A once promising chapter became a national joke for nothing
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@Sain4847 came up with this formulation (though Tooze stole it on a recent episode!!):
Mamdani and others have attached an ultimately unremarkable politics of affordability and proactive municipal governance to a moral claim that separates them from their opponents…
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Exclusive: in a brazen act of sectarianism, the compatible "left" (like liberal Zionist lobbying group @jstreetdotorg) held an exclusive planned CD with their own white glove police unit. NYC-DSA and JVP unite with zionists like Brad Lander in photoshoot with top leaders.
This is the @jvplive anti-Netanyahu protest today in New York. The organization did not announce it publicly, instead seemingly only notifying a small group of celebrities, activists and political candidates.
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RT @OGBlackRedGuard: DSA member Zohran M. (NYC) must be censured. Using state power against comrades is indefensible.
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This is how movements get defanged.
We elect someone because of demands created by years of organizing, then suddenly protecting that politician becomes more important than protecting the demands.
The politician becomes the movement instead of being accountable to it.
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Netanyahu untouched in nyc ranting about hasan piker, nypd surveilling and arresting protesters, mamdani somewhere filming instagram reels #alright #thatsjustthewayitis
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zohran had his cops arrest his friends in a planned highly media coordinated civil "disobedience" because he can't arrest netanyahu and this is just as impactful
.@DarializaforNY @OsseChi and Caleb Heron all among the first few put in zip ties and taken into NYPD custody
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Every Democrat in the FL legislature, including @AngieNixon, voted for the “send poor people to prison for trying to secure housing” law. No solutions for the affordability crisis, just prison. This is why Democrats keep losing elections here. Stop voting with Republicans!
Starting October 1st, lying to get an apartment in Florida is now a felony. | #ONLYinDADE
Florida has a new law for people who lie to get a rental. Fake pay stubs. Fake bank statements. Fake IDs. Pretending to be someone else. Any of it can get you a felony. That means up to 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Landlords don’t have to wait for a court case, either. They can give the renter 7 days to move out. There’s no chance to fix it.
A big apartment group pushed for this law. They say Florida had more rental fraud than any other state. Every lawmaker voted yes. It passed 110-0 in the House and 34-0 in the Senate. Governor DeSantis signed it in June.
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RT @NerdeenKiswani: This is how movements get defanged.
We elect someone because of demands created by years of organizing, then suddenly…
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RT @NerdeenKiswani: I genuinely need people to understand what they are being asked to normalize here.
Mamdani campaigned on arresting Net…
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RT @NerdeenKiswani: So this performative nonsense is meant to distract from the fact that hundreds of NYPD vehicles escorted Netanyahu to t…
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