Jabril [none/use name]

the people who would be fighting a future war against mainland China for Taiwan the US are getting obliterated in Ukraine

This is a perfect description

Yes, I’ve seen so much heinous shit come from of DSA members that I can’t say because it would dox me, but I have been surprised by the sentiments here towards DSA.

I haven’t interacted with SM because I’ve never been a DSA member and only interacted with DSA members in organizing spaces outside DSA that their members are involved in. When it comes to caucuses like SM and B&R, it is easy to spot their terrible politics from a mile away, but with CC they posture so much to be “the good ones” that I think they are worse for being manipulative and deceitful. I wrote out the things I’ve seen them do but deleted it because it does feel like a way to get identified.

Edit: also they are huge rojava stans

They do seem better from the outside but I haven’t worked with them directly. I did meet a few at a party once and one of them was arguing in favor of electoralism and using Venezuela as an example of how electoralism could work in the US to bring about socialism. I referenced this in one of the recent Mamdani struggle sessions. I liked that they were pro Venezuela but immediately thought it was a display of their lack of understanding of dialectical and historical materialism to assume that the conditions in Venezuela which lead to Chavismo were anything similar to the US

I’ve organized closely with communist caucus members and they are not MLs. I have heard different members go on rants against tankies on many occasions. I won’t say more specifics so I don’t dox myself but those people are some of the worst settlers I’ve ever organized with

They are racists

DSA is full of Zionists which is why I would never work with them at this point

oh ok, yeah it might still apply to your situation there

Yeah it’s brutal, and funding has dried up for the doctorate and post doc programs. A friend who was trying in the states had to accept a position in Germany and luckily they were looking before the biggest cuts happened because the EU funds a fraction of the positions that were cut in the US.

Not sure if you are committed to staying in US but you could get a TEFL certificate and teach English in another country. It might not be a long term career but it could be a great way to spend a few years, get some new experiences and perspectivesz and ride out the US crash from afar

I feel like with physics you’d probably need to go for grad school, doctorate, post doc and end up working in academia or labs

Pretty easy to hold a territory when the people who live there voted to do so

Didn’t some lab just announce a general cancer mRNA vaccine that is in the works? It trains your immune system to go after any cancer cell, based on success with mRNA vaccines targeting specific types of cancer. The closest thing to what he is describing is being worked on and the US just cut major funding to the research that makes it possible

Edit: https://ufhealth.org/news/2025/surprising-finding-could-pave-way-for-universal-cancer-vaccine

Is all your equipment insured? I’ve had many different touring friends have their stuff stolen and the ones that didn’t have insurance were pretty fucked

I said it in the last news struggle sesh on this topic but I do see a lot of people here with principled takes on the subject, which really makes the kinds of responses you are describing stand out to me. I think there is an underlying dialectic of bloom/doom (optimism/cynicism) mentality where some people just need to feel like the left is having a win and so get invested into being very hopeful and positive and that means that any critique which undermines that position is automatically “doomer.” Whereas I think many here can have a materialist take outside of this dialectic like “he is exactly what the has always been, a radlib, and he is doing nothing unexpected. There is also no reason to desire his loss because everyone else is worse and it will be good to see what happens if he wins whether he does better or worse than expected”

The one user here who worked on the campaign and is super invested because of it is being extra which I get on some level because it’s not just an abstract thing but a personal project that dozens of hours went into which affects the place he lives. There’s a lot of reason to take it personally for him, but I think being rude and insulting out the gate isn’t doing any favors or displaying a comradely debate style. I get clapping back when someone starts it tho

Just a reminder that in America social workers are often functioning as cops, they are usually agents of the bourgeois state and not inherently doing good.

This is the critique from leninists, he isn’t letting his alleged politics be in command - but since he isn’t a leninist why would we expect this? The critique is valid of communists but he isn’t a communist. Every Democrat and bourgeois candidate, mamdani included, says shit to get elected and usually backpedals a majority of it. He is doing what is expected but because he identifies as a democratic socialist it feels as if he should be held to a standard higher than he really deserves to be held to. I don’t think it’s fair to expect a liberal to be a communist, even if they think they are. What’s more annoying on this forum for me is the Democratic socialist members here acting like he isn’t a liberal, more so than the ML members acting like he should be a communist.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/

Edit: just saw the other link from EllenKelly which includes this one in it as a source but has even more sources

Reminds me of that recent case where they made an AI version of a murdered person to “forgive” the person that murdered them

Yes that’s the same guy

Multiple air filters will help. You can build them with box fans