🇵🇸Hundreds of PSL members traveled from all across the country for the National March for Palestine in Washington DC, and while this powerful demonstration has concluded, the fight to stop Trump and Netanyahu’s new stage in the genocide is just beginning!
We’re returning to our cities more energized than ever to fight for an arms embargo, an end to the repression against the students, and a free Palestine from the river to the sea!
I wonder how long it will take for the Trump admin to outlaw PSL and send all it’s members to an El Salvadorian concentration camp
hey comrade, i know you already apologized, but i still want to point to this post as an example of why i take such issue with casual DoomJerking:
a good chunk of the people on this website you know and (hopefully) care about are in the PSL, even if you don’t know it. These are the people you’re talking so flippantly about being sent to do brutal slave labor for trying to create a better world - and on strong average, it’s way harder to talk about these things in such a detached and offhand manner if you’re actually in the crosshairs and taking the punches and risks of state violence like that. now, i don’t want to make any presumptions about what kind of irl organizing you are or aren’t a part of, but DoomJerking does imply a degree of comfortable, detached distance from the matter that really rubs me the wrong way. this is me and about half of the people i love you’re talking about when you make posts like this - it’s not an abstraction, these are flesh and blood human beings who have inspired each other & created bonds of love with each other that are hard to overstate. please just try to be mindful of this, even when you are feeling deeply depressed and disillusioned with current conditions (which is completely understandable).
again, i know you did apologize and post a more optimistic sentiment afterward and this is a bigger trend than just you. i just thought it was a good opportunity to hammer out some issues with this kind of thing (which goes way beyond you or this single post of yours so don’t feel too bad) in more detail.
Yeah I’m sorry
no i know, it’s okay i hope i wasn’t too hard on you
it’s just a general trend in the online left that’s bugged me for a while, and i thought it was a good opportunity & might be helpful to you, me, and anyone reading this thread to maybe explore/clarify exactly why i find it problematic in more detail. kinda as a collective learning/growth thing, idk
Okay now you gotta step away from that lathe
Yeah sorry I’m just doomer rn because I saw that insurrection act thing
Anyway it was great to see this post, gives me some hope
Reading about operation gladio def makes me paranoid about what America would look like if a communist party ever became a threat. The cope I have is that:
I think I would be more afraid of a purging of communists under Biden than Trump
Normal cops are not capable of usefully infiltrating PSL. Our vetting is thorough, expectations for commitment are high, and our democratic centralism is impossible for a single shithead to derail - you’ll just get booted if you always gum up the works. And the amount of time you’d need to be in to get any useful secret intel beyond “wow these communists sure have a lot of planning meetings and public events” is literally years. We have worked very hard to build a hard organization and actively study the tactics of COINTELPRO and other state disruptive strategies.
This is really hopeful to hear
Yea I meant that cops would be way less effective than the FBI
Became a threat again.
Because the black panthers were enough of a threat to jail and murder a bunch. Similarly they put CPA leaders in prison during the red scare. And before that killing and arresting various IWW leaders.
Yes put all the communists and socialists in one place! that ought to do it!