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Zohran saying "I believe Israel has the right to exist as a state with equal rights just like the United States" was really an all-time great contribution to left-wing rhetoric
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MarxistSwiftie
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MarxistSwiftie
@MarxistSwiftie
graduate student || rank-and-file member of @UAW_4811 || @DSA_LosAngeles || @DSASocMaj
Los Angeles Katılım Eylül 2024
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I also care about police reform and the ultimate horizon of abolition. But we need to be honest about what it's going to take to get there instead of lying about the few sympathetic politicians we have left.
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The choice to vote down the entire budget after negotiations are complete is purely symbolic. You can either cast a symbolic No vote to protest the police funding or a symbolic Yes vote to celebrate real wins that the DSA-LA City Council bloc has indeed secured.
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This is the dumbest genre of left-wing criticism. There is no such thing as a "police budget," there's just one big city budget. Nithya Raman has voted against every one of the specific votes about increasing police funding during budget negotations.
Film The Police LA@FilmThePoliceLA
@nithyavraman You voted for multiple years of police budgets. Voted to give new cops $15,000 bonuses. Voted to transfer money from a food program for poor kids and gave it to cops for overtime. Voted for Chief McDonnell. Most of all, Nithya spent 6 years refusing to stand up to LAPD abuses.
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I meant to delete a separate, completely unrelated post that was right under this one.
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I accidentally deleted the first post in this thread!
Democrats for Israel did indeed ask Nithya Raman to submit an endorsement questionnaire and she refused. As with AOC, I think this underscores the importance of working through disagreements with our endorsed electeds.
MarxistSwiftie@MarxistSwiftie
There is also a strong sense that we'll be able to work with Nithya on some national agenda-setting campaign promises on Palestine in exchange for a general election endorsement. Stay tuned for more!
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LA's homelessness crisis is a humanitarian disaster - and our response isn't working.
I have a plan to fix this.🧵⬇️
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I was elected as a democratic socialist, and will continue to govern as a democratic socialist.
100 days in — and we’re just getting started.
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Our ultimate goal should instead be a long-term horizon of abolition through the hard work of actually building socialism, as well as fighting for what Ruth Wilson Gilmore would call "non-reformist reforms" to rein in police brutality in the short-term.
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It would also be great for us to push for a package of popular police reforms, which have actually been shown to reduce police brutality.
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There is also a strong sense that we'll be able to work with Nithya on some national agenda-setting campaign promises on Palestine in exchange for a general election endorsement. Stay tuned for more!
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NYC-DSA's power didn't come from online cruelty, nor from washing their hands clean of moral impurity and walking away from a once-in-a-generation talent.
Their power came from a practice rooted in love and mutuality with an unwavering focus on the eternal class struggle.
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I agree that no single caucus or tendency should take full credit for this monumental achievement. But it is important that we take stock of what exactly NYC-DSA has done over the past ten years to become a towering force in NYC politics.
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If you feel heartened by AOC's decision to come out against Iron Dome funding and want to help build a DSA that is powerful enough to meaningfully influence our elected representatives, there are important lessons we can learn as an organization about how this happened.
Peter Sterne@petersterne
BREAKING: At tonight’s NYC-DSA electoral forum, @AOC committed to voting against “any spending on arms for Israel, including so-called defensive capabilities.”
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