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maybe-later-honey Yes, he suppports a genocide, but you must still vote for him because he has proven he cares about democracy and civic rights. funny-clown-hammer

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

When some in the DSA’s leadership suggested that the organization could at least call on its members in swing states to consider voting for Biden, the majority voted down the proposal.

The organization lacks a united political program even on such basic matters as whom to endorse for president.

Yeah that is a unified political program for basic matters like whom to endorse. Just because the members voted in a way you don’t like doesn’t mean there’s no system there.

America’s youth-led social-protest movements petered out by the end of the 1970s, however, and the left came to place itself outside the political system, condemning itself to marginality.

First off, most of that youth-led protest movement was petty bourgeois white kids whose interest was not being shipped off to war, with some hedonism thrown in. So a liberal movement. Second, way to overlook the legacy of McCarthyism pushing leftists out of political and labor organizations.

In Israel, a left-wing coalition with Arab and Jewish members decided to join Zionist parties of the left and the center in endorsing the centrist Benny Gantz for prime minister, with a goal of ousting Benjamin Netanyahu, seen by the group as a menace to Israel’s democracy.

Okay now he’s just embarrassing himself.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Also they literally sent in the National Guard to murder youth protestors in addition to other incidences of violence against demonstrators. The social-protest movement didn't just "peter out"

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