https://act.dsausa.org/signup/QA_about_DSA_11_19/
As a member of DSA, this cant be good for DSA. As a subscriber to the pod, this cant be good for the pod
Yeah, they were good. They have to answer a lot of beginner questions which makes sense. I’m excited for the PSL people to do their q and a here so I can compare.
I think what differentiates DSA from PSL is that the barrier for entry isn't as high. I've managed to get dozens of people to join who were involved with the Bernie campaign but didnt really do anything afterwards. If you've been a socialist and have a good ideological and political knowledge and have been involved online in socialist circles its easy to join PSL but I think it can be harder for people to join and get involved with them since it requires a bigger commitment. I think its important to grow this movement quickly right now and DSA has managed it well over the past 4 years where we've gotten something like 75,000 new members.
Yep we hit 85k today, and it's a lot easier to bring a non active but dues paying DSA member into a working group than with a group like PSL where it's hard to get someone in the first place. I mean, I'm also not an ML though, and DSA will of course get non ML socialists much easier than PSL. And the national impact DSA can have is partly precisely because it does not organize like PSL.
DSA u just sign up and ur in. PSL u gotta get interviewed and go through an education course for a few weeks i believe? Though PSL is a political party while DSA is an org, so its a bit different.
PSL espouses a sort of "professional revolutionary" idea about its members. You're supposed to treat it as sort of a part time job and organize with them professionally. At least thats what they stressed during the interview. I dont really have the time and mental space to do that, but i get it, and i mean in DSA thats basically what most people who run the chapters or organize the working groups and caucuses do too.
Ooooh I like that. I can see the appeal of both, but I think having a strong commitment with other who I know are committed would help me a lot. Thank you.
Its not that people in DSA arent committed, all the chapter are run entirely by volunteers, and there is an enormous amount of work and organizing that goes on. Its just that people can easily join en masse and start getting engaged and educated and trained, which is what you need to build a mass socialist movement. Theres certainly difference between dsa and psl, tho ive been happy to meet and organize with comrades in the local marxist caucus in dsa. For me the interest is with DSA's influence though, as it can make a large impact nationwide, but we gotta also make sure the org is orienting itself the right way too.
just sign up here and ull get a zoom link to join
https://act.dsausa.org/signup/QA_about_DSA_11_19/
they might put it here later
https://www.youtube.com/c/DSAEventLivestream/videos
is that where I can watch it live? or do I need to create an account on that link to join it?
The sign up does not require an account, but it does need an email to send you the zoom link. I don't know if the zoom and youtube will be done concurrently or if the youtube video will be put up later.
Is it true that he slept with a minor in his late 20s?
I want to stan him, but I can't knowingly stan anyone with sexual assault allegations...
If this poster can't produce anything and nobody can back up their claim that this is out there, that's a ban, right?
"believe all women unless I like the guy they're accusing"
"Believe all women unilaterally" has never been the point. Not commenting on this allegation though, I've never heard of it I'll have to read about it.
Ya got me. But I literally can't find a single thing about this allegation so what am I supposed to do with that?
I could have sworn that was also a pseudonym. I mean it's almost a pun. I too can't find anything about this allegation.
That site makes 0 sense. Is that a bunch of comments from the old sub nonsensically stitched together? What does this prove?
It has a bunch of comments from This thread interspersed with... something else? Looks like a writeup on Kiwifarms or /r/drama or a random Discord (from that region of the internet)
Edit: also mugrimm is weirdly mentioned in there (a former chapo mod). I think it's just some bullshit sprinkled into the incoherent (obviously bot-scraped) thread, but makes me think it came from Twitter somehow?
No, I wouldn't say that. I think it's a bit more complicated (though they are obviously shit stirring). I finally found where the bulk of the content on that page came from, which appears to be legit criticism of Chapo (and Virgil's) association with Cumtown (and by proxy association with MDE/Sam Hyde). A response post gave some context here.The link is dumb though, some weird algorithmic shit that has been posted on multiple Wordpress blogs somehow, and very sketchy.
I found one example of "accusations" against Virgil, and it was a conspiracy theorist forum post listing off a bunch of random twitter personalities and their alleged infractions, just gossip.
