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we created it, let’s take it over

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sometimes when my brain starts going overboard with thinking that simply unionizing can solve *everything* i remind myself that the NYT and WaPo are unionized and they still are... That

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Thank you!

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I’m following, how do I “like” an account?

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To the author of the bot idk what I’m doing wrong, help

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats

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He was a *great* chair of the DNC (on its own terms, not saying the DNC is politically good). Then we stopped doing the 50 state strategy for some reason

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It’s also just a genuinely bad city. No real city to the city, other than a tiny old downtown. Nothing but connected suburbs. Awful

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I hope it’s okay to share but this is such a pure sweet post. My man sounds like an Achewood character

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lol yes i left a "usually" caveat in there. not telling john darnielle what to do.

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this thread is getting way more attention than i thought it would. if you buy into my thinking that we need organizing in workplaces to advance political change, the best thing you can do is go through organizer trainings from EWOC. workerorganizing.org/resources/tr...

recorded versions on youtube

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this thread is getting way more attention than i thought it would. if you buy into my thinking that we need organizing in workplaces to advance political change, the best thing you can do is go through organizer trainings from EWOC. workerorganizing.org/resources/tr...

recorded versions on youtube

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jesse's avatar jesse @killgoldfish.bsky.social
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yes!! "somebody should set up a new national party" is a task for someone else, whereas organizing a workplace is something that the poster could probably start doing. much scarier!

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Rich Puchalsky ⚑'s avatar Rich Puchalsky ⚑ @richpuchalsky.bsky.social
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I won't go through the whole list of various Red Scares. Put people who are like "just go and do it, can't be too difficult if you're serious" don't understand how hard it is to do this when the entire power structure is against you with the full support of the state.

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Alex P. 👹's avatar Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social
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the constitution is very old and very, very bad

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jesse's avatar jesse @killgoldfish.bsky.social
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unironically yes; we have a worse system than they do

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jesse's avatar jesse @killgoldfish.bsky.social
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but All Politics Is Local, right? reading about Bill Clinton in the excellent book "A Fabulous Failure," Bill was never pro-union because he came from a state with no union density, but where Wal-Mart had a ton of power and influence. so we gotta build strong unions from the ground up nationwide.

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come on, a leftist party would never descend into factions and infighting

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i think the dems are *more* pro-union than they have been since the 70s. i have lots of criticism of Biden but his NLRB is genuinely great. but it's a spectrum. democrats in highly union-dense areas are going to be more pro-union than in states where 1% of private sector workers are organized.

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correct- plus the normal people, who usually support one political party, their first question about a candidate is often "are they a [democrat/republican]" and you do not want your explanation to be more than one word

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can't fool me, this is from the opening of Uncut Gems

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Yeah. I think “new political party” is way less important than “new political organizing infrastructure in one local area,” even if they’re running people technically as Dems or doing ballot initiatives or not doing any electoralism at all Gotta build ground up not too Dow

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if you build a strong enough union, the democratic party will call *you.*

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so yeah i think third parties (both existing ones and making a new ones) are a complete political dead end. as always, i'm not a nihilist. build a working-class power base through other ways (like a strong union movement) and make the politicians come to *us*, not the other way around.

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i’m not a political scientist but i think analysis of why America’s system leads to two-party rule is pretty well-established. so all the above is unnecessary because the answer is “we’d need a new constitution first”

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now, i’d love for that to happen- i think a lot of people would- but i don’t think posting online about “bernie sanders and the squad should ____” is gonna get it to happen. idk. seems like if they wanted to do that, they’d have done so already.

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if we start from a successful ULP and work backwards, the most plausible way is for the left-wing of the Democratic party to essentially split. so, Bernie Sanders and the Squad would leave and form their own party.

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those donations to Democrats aren’t just “we like the Democrats,” they’re attempts to buy influence. where are you getting the money from to start a 50-start left wing party? small donations? who’s raising that money?

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as far as base of support: a leftist party has to be for The People, right? the workers, it’ll be pro-union. as someone whose day job is union organizer, good fucking luck getting union endorsements. union leadership is both tied to the democratic party, and pragmatic.

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a previous attempt at this sort of thing, People’s Party, was… bad. it was just bad. everything about it sucked. the last people in the country who should be in charge of setting up a new party were. google it

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if you’re not choosing between the two, you’re giving yourself more work by re-doing stuff both of them have done already, and then splitting the third-party-leftist vote even more. blech! (oh, and either way the democratic party is gonna throw lawyers at blocking ballot access)

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would it be a sort of focus on one of them, and if so, which one, and why not the other? already, we’re starting to have to decide between the Bookchin-esque, more Libertarian Socialist Green Party and the Leninist Party for Socialism and Liberation. oof! not fun!

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the first question immediately gets us into thorny territory. there are multiple leftist parties with some degree of ballot access across many states, specifically the Green Party and PSL. so, would ULP be created as a brand new thing, competing with these already-existing parties?

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jesse's avatar jesse @killgoldfish.bsky.social
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to start talking about this, we have to ask two things: who would be the people running the party, and who would be the base of support? let’s call it Unnamed Leftist Party (ULP)

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i'm going to take the question seriously. you should trust me because i've worked in politics multiple times (staff for nevada state democratic party) but also disregard me because i'm an anarchist so of course i'm going to say it's not viable [thread]

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flyease rules, my flyease jordan 1's are one of my favorite pairs

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gonna start posting some of my most important letterboxd reviews here

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some of those that burn crosses are the girls who love horses

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I mean obviously he’s lying but I love the kind of style he’s going with where he’s like wow yeah these guys seem like complete pieces of shit, anyways lots of luck to them hope they succeed

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pitching capcom on street fighter vs godzilla, so that we can get some answers

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they could've spent one day coming up with a backup plan, but clearly no, let's just dump everything on five people at the last minute

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when i worked for the NV Dems in 2019-202 and we had to pivot from using ~the app~ for reporting to a more-or-less old school system (with a google form), all our leadership was clearly staying up all night working on a new plan to replace the old one clear "work harder not smarter"

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I am asking in sincerity, what in the UK’s political system is causing this

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