The establishment ran on unity and then they all bolt as soon as they didn't get their way
This is the unity that was certainly being sold by the likes of Biden: unity with the GOP, not the left.
If Nevada ends up becoming a breakaway socialist republic (Chiapas style, baby) I'm gonna move there and support it.
I hate the desert, but Nevada is looking pretty good to me right now.
I live in Florida, and let me tell you, I would * kill* for some of that dry heat you desert people have.
You have no idea how much you rely on humidity, hiking an hour in Nevada can fucking kill you
Oh, I don't live in the desert. I've just visited long enough to know that it's not for me.
Close the border temporarily to prevent the cash from leaving the state, seize all assets belonging to the capitalists, repurpose hotels into public housing, maintain the amusements as entertainment for the people, turn over half of the valuable properties to indigenous tribes, eventually use tourism as a source of funding.
Ooooh let's hold off on revolution just a little bit and we can seize Musk's gigafactory. That would be fun.
That would be difficult due to the small size of the tunnel. The hyperloop is even bad at being repurposed.
Monopoly money
Keep the games that are kind of fun without gambling like Blackjack and Poker, shut down the slots
Nevada is already struggling for water. The US would cut off water access and destroy the state if it ever got too far to the left.
Why would they go to all the trouble of a siege when they can just send in their goons, imprison or murder the leaders and occupy the state and force capitalism on the people?
Don't tell me they wouldn't do just that.
And everyone was saying our obsession with Fallout New Vegas was a waste of time
What part of "the wealthy will not allow you vote away their wealth" do leftists in this day and age not understand?
Stuff like this still has the potential to get them to show their ass, but yeah. You've got to have a plan to agitate on that and take it to the next level because if you put all your eggs in that basket you're fucked.
Edit: As much as we joke about it, the Democratic Party isn't going to destroy itself. Its likely going to need a shove.
It seems leftist (okay, probably socdem, but lets be generous here) have been organizing for a long time at the local level. And while this seems bad, it did destroy the Democratic establishment. They purged themselves from their own party, and now the leftists have control.
I'm not ready to chalk it up as a win yet. The rats are fleeing the ship, but they will regroup and they will retaliate. They are going to coordinate with their corporate allies, maybe even with the GOP, and wage a media campaign to sabotage the new leadership and try to get their hands back on power at the soonest opportunity.
I think they may try to run against progressives next time, in primaries and leadership elections, but if DSA won this time, they can probably do it again.
Personally, don't think they'll join Republicans. I find it more likely these ghouls start working for the Democrats in another state or the national level.
Maybe we'll see the progressives ground down by electoral competition with the GOP, trying to win over moderates until they're just centrists again.
Yeah I guess it depends on what their connections are. Party loyalists like the employees mentioned in this article may very well just take up work in other states or for primary challengers, but local industry and commerce is tied down geographically and they will plow their resources towards whoever has the best shot at increasing their bottom line. The PACs will pivot at the drop of a hat if anyone threatens to limit their influence.
https://twitter.com/danrolle/status/1369125784892313603
The corruption is complete. Establishment dems on @nvdems drained financial accounts, quit on the spot and may have sabotaged efforts to move forward.
We are just beginning to understand what happened. It's not great, but this is what we must do to move ahead.
:amerikkka-clap:
You know what they say, in the chess game of electoralism if you win the match, they flip the board over
Starting the No Homers Club, now that the Stonecutters are all about doing nice things for people
https://twitter.com/danrolle/status/1369006236998500356
"The outgoing teams at @nvdems completely raided the accounts, farming most of that money out to big $ consultants, none of whom are in Nevada. They are refusing to hand over the details for the rest. "
Yakov Smirnoff Voice In Capitalist America, reactionaries purge themselves
Um, that actually sounds like legit payroll fraud.
If you quit a gig or get fired severance is not usually given.
I have no doubt that they managed to find some obscure legal way to take as much money as possible on the way out the door.
golden parachutes for everyone*
- terms and conditions apply, only persons of means (hereafter "people") are eligible for golden parachutes, all non-people will be metaphorically strangled with golden ripcords through acts of class warfare
if the fucking DSA actually does good by their people i'll eat every fucking word i said about electoralism just being entirely a crapshoot, and reserve my opinion for national electoralism in the united states. i'm even rooting for them. i'd still put all my money in on 00 before i'd expect to change shit through voting though.
I'm with you. If electoralism actually works then it's the easy way to fix things. Revolutions are both risky and awful to live through.
It hasn't and won't. Nevada is a small part of the world. Stop becoming a liberal as soon as one thing goes okay.
If this is all it takes to get them to revert to liberalism, they never fully purged it from their thinking.
Electoralism can do some good, like establishing socialist politics in the public imagination and build working class organisations. It can't bring about socialism on its own but it can do some of the educational and organisational work we need.
Vote blue no matter who. Also we're all immediately abandoning our posts if a socialist gets elected.
So, somebody smarter than me help me out.
If the shit libs abandoned ship, doesn't that open lots of spots to put in staff more in line with the Dem Socs progressive picks? Could this be a bit of a win for those progressive folks?
scratches head
I guess with the consultants gone, the rolo-dexes of cash cows go with them but maybe they'll be forced to go do more local work to get votes instead of relying on money bombs in media. :shrug:
They took a bunch of money out of NV dems to try and undermine the new people coming in. They may also attempt to regroup and organise again outside of the party. This is putting DSA people on the backfoot and attempting to force them to start from scratch.
This is in line with the kind of wrecking that happened under Labour with Corbyn.
If anything it'll at least be good for agitation, especially as in the US you might actually get reporting on it (like this piece), compared to just "everything is Corbyn's fault" here in the UK.
/r/politics thread has a shitton of comments already, very hard to pretend this is just normal or to sincerely pretend this is somehow DSA/progressives fault, though a few are trying their best lmao.
This is in line with the kind of wrecking that happened under Labour with Corbyn.
It seems like it's the complete opposite to me. Corbyn was destroyed by the apparatus of the party which remained hostile to him, and used their position to sabotage his leadership. For example: they deliberatly mismanaged anti-semitism complaints so he'd look bad and they deliberatly funelled money away from swing seats to safe seats during the 2017 election - an election where Labour could've won if 2227 more people voted for them.
The local organizing and planning over time that is described in the article is amazing. Local politics matter. This shit is real praxis at a level we should all aspire to.
This is such a fucked up story. I certainly hope people go to jail for this shit
Hot takes
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/m0vd4s/entire_staff_of_nevada_democratic_party_quits/
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/duplicates/m0vv7x/entire_staff_of_nevada_democratic_party_quits/
Getting a page not found on the second link. The neolibs nuke it?
It's just sending people to the crosspost tab instead of the comments
try https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/m0vv7x/entire_staff_of_nevada_democratic_party_quits/
DSA is not just bernouts, it's full of sincere Maoists and other kind of authoritarianists.
I fucking wish
lol locked and the one person who suggested m4a had their post deleted
