I appreciate everyone's responses a lot. I also think it was good to remove the post because there was some reactionary stuff in the google doc I linked. I found it through one of the articles that Bad Mouse's link led to, not in any of the other comments. I only looked at the "first hand accounts" links in the doc and didn't even double check what else there was so that's my error.

I had a feeling the take would be that there are certainly big flaws, as there are in any org, with any group of people, but PSL is still one of the few vehicles for socialist agitation that there actually exists, and by joining it we can help improve it.

I'm likely going to be moving to San Francisco when I'm back in the states in case anyone has recommendations about specific orgs in the bay that are certainly good.

Also I got to say Bad Mouse's ultra turn also bummed me out a little. It seems like such a baby leftist thing to do to just shit on a socialist party from across an ocean and then refuse to elaborate.

    • Maoo [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      They're quite stupid and wrong criticisms but you're also missing the point.

      • Sunforged@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        You can't even refer to them without using your little nickname, it's childish, petty and extremely off-putting for any point you are attempting to make.

        • Maoo [none/use name]
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          6 months ago

          I'm not sure what you mean by my "little nickname". Sounds like a subject change though.