*advancing her career

https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3ldhxclo4wk2c

This is about AOC losing her bid for the Oversight committee to a geriatric Dem lifer. Sure she has systematically shredded any last bit of credibility with her triangulation, but hey, at least all the 5D polítical chess is paying off! She’s changing the system from the inside! It’s working this time!

Girl, you abandoned any pretense of doing working-class mass politics when you decided to do insider politics! Why are you tweeting like Bernie Sanders circa 2012? There’s no we! There’s no mass movement behind you! It’s just NYC DSA and some Warren libs (but I repeat myself)

  • blunder [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It’s just NYC DSA and some Warren libs (but I repeat myself)

    At risk of being called a lib: NYC DSA in particular runs explicitly socialist candidates, wins, and gets real political results at city and state level at least… I have yet to meet a member who isn’t well versed in theory.

    I’ve been in multiple DSA chapters as I’ve bounced around burgerland and some were effectively lib children with their underwear on their head, but I honestly think NYC DSA is the rare effective force for good rooted in theory.

    Now, I supplemented that work with mutual aid in different groups bc electoralism is a fuck and because I don’t care about the “party politics” of DSA in general (nor was ever really ingrained enough to understand them). But I think there are more deserving targets of dunking than NYC DSA.

    (ducks incoming tomatoes)

    Edit: read further into this thread for a wholly deserved dunking on NYC DSA

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      Okay, I was partly going for a cheap dunk here. A lot of the issues I have with NYC DSA (I am a former member) are DSA problems generally not NYC specific, and there are plenty of comrades in the org.

      HOWEVER, the refusal by NYC DSA to hold electeds to any standards has been absolutely disgraceful, particularly in AoC’s case wrt to Palestine

      • blunder [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        I’m interested in your opinion on the link I just posted below, where it looks to me like it was the NYC chapter that specifically requested the revocation of her endorsement?

        I’m not trying to “gotcha” I’m just well outside of the party politics and curious whether that changes your view or not

        • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          13·
          2 days ago

          “NPC received a request from NYC-DSA SC to withdraw the endorsement because it took place after the New York Democratic Primary and they did not expect a conditional endorsement or feel it was strategic.”

          NYC DSA withdrew their request for endorsement because national put conditions on it regarding Palestine

          • blunder [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            14·
            2 days ago

            Your reading comprehension is better than mine, thank u comrade :rat-salute: apologies for my poor interpretation, the coffee machine at Langley is broken today.

            Yeah I agree with you that’s a shit look. It reads like “we don’t need to make this endorsement to win, and we don’t feel the need to campaign against our incumbent who is going to win anyway”. But in the process wind up looking ambivalent to genocide.

            I feel like I can even see the logic where they’re like, “how she voted in this meaningless motion that was gonna overwhelmingly pass anyway has no real world impact,” but it’s like, if you’re not even gonna protest the sham votes, why are you there???