lol why follow lifeafterdsa when you can cut out the middle man and just follow @fbi directly?
they always post dumb shit without knowing whats going on. there was some shit but it was handled pretty quickly and doesnt seem like a big deal, the people got expelled.
I am only joining a mass movement if I get to become the sole focus and charismatic speaker, and die a martyr so I can play out my suicidal ideations in a "healthy" way.
Like a lot of things, a little bit is healthy, but a lot is terminal. It's great that people are skeptical enough of DSA leaders to identify and root out sexual misconduct. It becomes a liability, though, when people lose sight of the fact that sexual misconduct is basically guaranteed in certain types and sizes of organizations, and that the DSA seems to handle it much better than comparable organizations. Compare this to Democrats' handling of Tara Reade, for instance.
I'm gonna do a whataboutism and say that the DSA is not an organization uniquely rife with abusers. I won't claim to prescribe what features of an organization make it resistant to abusers, but there are plenty of groups that are more radical, further left, more centralist or horizontalist, which have failed to maintain a basic standard of safety and protection for vulnerable members.
It seems that even people who weren't in the EC did step down so that new elections could be held and trust could be restored within the chapter. I don't know what happened and don't feel the need to research (nor would I find it sensible if I would necessarily find what happened online), however that people got excluded and there are new elections and there seems to be a working national procedure is more than what could be said with some organizations I was involved in.
A mainstream government party a friend of mine was associated with for example had an sexual abusive official who also was a stalker who did get shielded by the local, the state level and the federal level blocked any channel to deal with it. So I for one applaud every structure in which the abuser isn't shielded in the end - even if stuff could still be better.
lol why follow lifeafterdsa when you can cut out the middle man and just follow @fbi directly?
Because "DSA sucks, its just a bunch of Democrats and we hate Democrats" is way more fun to say than "I uncritically consumer gossip on Twitter when developing my political views".
love to make a “life after dsa” account and spend the next 3 years spreading nonstop unsubstantiated rumors about dsa and only talking about random dsa drama online every day
lol why follow lifeafterdsa when you can cut out the middle man and just follow @fbi directly?
they always post dumb shit without knowing whats going on. there was some shit but it was handled pretty quickly and doesnt seem like a big deal, the people got expelled.
https://i.imgur.com/jceEdrG.png
https://twitter.com/NewSovietPoster/status/1384962253498236929?s=20
I'm like 70 percent sure lifeafterdsa also in fact got kicked out of their dsa chapter for harassment.
A lot of leftists are way too eager to rip on the DSA.
I think instinctual distrust of institutions does American brains no favor.
Going to build a mass movement of the proletariat just as soon as I can find other proles I'm not instinctually terrified by or disgusted with, brb.
I am only joining a mass movement if I get to become the sole focus and charismatic speaker, and die a martyr so I can play out my suicidal ideations in a "healthy" way.
Like a lot of things, a little bit is healthy, but a lot is terminal. It's great that people are skeptical enough of DSA leaders to identify and root out sexual misconduct. It becomes a liability, though, when people lose sight of the fact that sexual misconduct is basically guaranteed in certain types and sizes of organizations, and that the DSA seems to handle it much better than comparable organizations. Compare this to Democrats' handling of Tara Reade, for instance.
I'm gonna do a whataboutism and say that the DSA is not an organization uniquely rife with abusers. I won't claim to prescribe what features of an organization make it resistant to abusers, but there are plenty of groups that are more radical, further left, more centralist or horizontalist, which have failed to maintain a basic standard of safety and protection for vulnerable members.
Making fun of the DSA is often quite funny tho
Fixed it for ya
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It seems that even people who weren't in the EC did step down so that new elections could be held and trust could be restored within the chapter. I don't know what happened and don't feel the need to research (nor would I find it sensible if I would necessarily find what happened online), however that people got excluded and there are new elections and there seems to be a working national procedure is more than what could be said with some organizations I was involved in.
A mainstream government party a friend of mine was associated with for example had an sexual abusive official who also was a stalker who did get shielded by the local, the state level and the federal level blocked any channel to deal with it. So I for one applaud every structure in which the abuser isn't shielded in the end - even if stuff could still be better.
Because "DSA sucks, its just a bunch of Democrats and we hate Democrats" is way more fun to say than "I uncritically consumer gossip on Twitter when developing my political views".
love to make a “life after dsa” account and spend the next 3 years spreading nonstop unsubstantiated rumors about dsa and only talking about random dsa drama online every day
Big bitter ex energy