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Dude just loves riling himself up into a frenzy, doesn’t he? I guess he was mad that Hasan was going to interview Obama, which never even happened, and now he thinks Hasan is a “genocide supporter” because a random YouTube clip he came across that said “Hasan supports Kamala’s policies”, which he never even watched and was most likely just clipped. Hasan isn’t perfect, but fuck, you think at least him going to the DNC as a journalist would be considered fair from BE. Wild.
Deeply unserious lol
Like someone on here comparing PSL to trots.
I'm the unserious one?
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Respectfully disagree with the mods decision to delete this. Equating Hasan with AOC is an ignorant statement to make due to evidence of him being far more radical than her. Thus any attempt for me to reply to their argument in good faith, I feel, is tainted from the get-go.
#1 donor to the amazon labor union btw
bill gates is the #1 donor to alleviating Malaria and has likely saved millions of lives
are we going to adopt the Bill Gates political platform now?
surely you're not equivocating medical colonialism and giving money to support a worker's union that your "boss" opposes. that would be a genuinely deranged equivocation.
but you're clearly on a real tear here and in need of some grass touching, so i'll be blocking you if you feel the need to continue to pop off at me. you are clearly scrolling this thread for hours looking for people to try to argue with and it's seriously neither healthy nor productive.
my point is that money for charity, even if it were a good cause, is not any reason to support someone. It just means they're rich. Rich evil fucks do great things through philanthropy all the time to absolve themselves, it means nothing.
Your dislike of this statement does not make it ignorant
I'm sorry you feel that I would reply in bad faith. I don't understand why I would come across that way and frankly it's hurtful that you think that.
PSL does have a Trot genealogy, though is ML. Socialist Workers Party -> Workers World Party -> PSL. SWP was Trot. WWP were an OG tankie split and the origin of Marcyism, literally led by Marcy. They adopted more ML stances but didn't shed all Trotskyist thought. So many people handing out little papers and making unrealistic proclamations about what organized labor would do in the imperisl core. Then PSL split off of that over internal organizational disputes. PSL seems to have been on the right side of that and is obviously now even cooler and more ML, and explicitly so.
But I do think see echoes of its Trotskyist parentage from time to time. For example, putting so much energy into electoral vanguardism, aping Bolshevik structures, and coming across as detached from the community when it comes to local work. To me, one of the more salient failures of Trots is in how they tend to aesthetically go through the motions of an idealized canon of What Trotsky Said To Do, which is often just what Lenin et al developed for their conditions, and generally fail to do the science of revolution. Much time spent self-congratulating, picking bad fights with others while repeating boilerplate lines, and then launching into the Next Big Thing that is Very Communist because leadership made A Great Speech. This does not describe PSL, but I do think you can see legacy bits of that kind of thinking pop up on occasion.