Join an org, by the way! I’m just fantasizing here about what could have been. Organizing with DSA or PSL or whoever is really important and can help the proletarian cause a lot!
Where’s the genuine dual power organizations, the revolutionary party groups? Why is everyone here focusing on local elections (not that they aren’t important, they are) and sectarian issues? There’s so much cool shit we could be doing as organizations but my local DSA chapter just does electoral stuff and my local PSL and even more left-leaning organizations just seem to sort of be doing absolutely nothing? I could be wrong, I haven’t checked the news or anything, but I feel like every time I see an event for an org it’s always just a social meeting, an electoral-politics related protest or canvassing session, a protest for a serious issue like abortion rights or Palestine but nothing further, or a regular meet.
A lot of this could be due to a lack of resources, but our cause(s) aren’t just milquetoast liberalism, why are there no attempts to secure funding through illegal or unhinged means? Why are there no networks of power being built? Surely we’re more creative than this. Where are the armies of communist prostitutes spending their free time procuring money for their org? Where are the lefty organizations doing insane Ponzi schemes? It feels like everyone in every org is just running their wheels and doing basically nothing. Why? Surely there’s better ways to procure worker power than trying to protest to get specific bills passed? I mean, it isn’t useless by any means, but there has to be more?
An individual can escape the dragnet if they're not already a target. I made a year's salary in 2021 off someone else's crypto scam and those guys are still running around despite the fact that they incorporated in the US under their real names (INCREDIBLY stupid; only reason they're not in jail is the SEC is going after bigger fish right now). They probably cleared 500k. Lots of people buy drugs off the darknet and it's common knowledge that only big vendors and marketplaces get busted, not customers. I have no doubt that if I find a vulnerability in a DEX of some kind that I could exploit it and launder the cash.
Actually doing crime on an organizational level is tougher. If you personally do something illegal, don't tell anybody, and are reasonably cautious about it, you'll be fine. If you have 10 people, it's gonna get out. That's why the highest-profile crypto hackers are all outside of US extradition powers. Glory to the DPRK axolotl gambling game thieves, etc etc
And obviously you're not gonna rob a bank and get away with it just because you're alone. That stuff barely even worked for the BLA. Modern digital crime though, I don't think they've caught up.
Right that's what I mean by if they decide it out the resources into it
Which they will if they're socialists