Anyway her husband is a Disney software engineer and she's a union buster, I simply do not give a shit what she has to say and hope she shuts the fuck up forever.
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This is disrespectful and uncomradely, and you should really delete it. Kristin isn’t a union-buster, and there’s nothing bad about being a software engineer. We all want socialism and for DSA to thrive; attacks like this don’t help achieve that.
Kristin is a union buster as is a majority of our current NPC. If they didn't want to be called that, they shouldn't have tried to balance the budget fully on the back of the union workforce and spin an elaborate ideological framework for why that's good and socialist.
I deeply disagree, but I think you could find a way to say that, which doesn’t include “I…hope she shuts the fuck up forever.” Your post comes off pretty sexist otherwise.
“Fully on the back of the union workforce” you’re either being willfully misleading, or you’ve been misled. Every national committee took a budget cut of 50% or greater
I 100% disagree with her on the staffing cuts and it’s one thing to poke at her hypocrisy. But I don’t think saying you hope an active DSA member “shuts the fuck up forever” (esp. in response to a pretty accurate statement about liberalism) is very comradely or helpful.
(I don't really have a leg to stand on re: my job, I'm a commercial litigator mostly, but I also don't front like I'm the second coming of Trotsky out here.)
Many ultras are. It's easier to become like that when politics is first and foremost an intellectual exercise or moral ideal rather than a material need for survival.
Eh. I think this is a bad faith attack. Many of the ultras I've met are also dirt poor. I think you're trying too hard to frame your comrades as not just wrong, but also as morally bad or evil. Not a road worth going down IMO. Better to work toward a vision than against individuals.
One reason the labor movement needs to be the core of the left, something which I think is common ground with several of the caucuses I disagree with a lot, is that worker-oriented politics will tend to put concrete material concerns over ideological flights of fancy.
when i stare at posts like this i figure that humanity is doomed: we can't even figure out why posting death threats under our real name and face is a terrible idea
Nothing wrong with having a good job, but it sits oddly with ultra-radicalism and tastes pretty bad when you've advanced an agenda of balancing the budget on the backs of much lower-paid DSA workers! https://bsky.app/profile/thecoratee.bsky.social/post/3lbq35jinr227
I literally don't see what her husband's job has to do with any of this. If you want to attack her position on staffing or the org that is fair game, but I think you're being pretty shitty with this approach and not productive.
People who defend this should consider substituting DSA with a progressive nonprofit with a membership base (say, Make the Road) and ask themselves how they'd react if that org decided to lay off 40% of its staff without cutting board member stipends. Probably not great!
i do not actually like the dsa very much but theyre also the only thing resembling a membership party we have, we just have to accept that they are at best the nucleus of one, and also that socialists are always going to have to work within the broader liberal tent
That seems kinda disqualifying for one's role in the whole project? Not sure what socialism without organized workers wielding power even is, if not actual liberalism with the serial numbers filed off
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