Anti Nate Silver

gonna start a 🧵 of the many DSA victories last night as i see them

Your post says she "continues to double down on support for Iron Dome funding" but you're quoting a screenshot of her voting *against* the bill that funded the Iron Dome (among other military funding) We can and should criticize her but our criticism should be rooted in reality.

We’re excited to introduce Seth W for NPC, who has been leading at the nexus of movement building and electoral politics for over a decade. Most recently, they were the Organizing and Field Director for Uncommitted and also organized in Asheville in the wake of the 2024 floods.

I'm sure there are both sides to this and I think it's worthwhile seeing a response, but I'm shocked at reactions calling this petty or uncomradely It seems like a pretty clearly written set of criticisms of political actions & work, and no personal judgments at all

SMC members get death threats leveled against us by others in DSA but god forbid one of us writes an article criticizing how a committee is run

We're excited to introduce Jeremy C for NPC, a longstanding NYC-DSA electoral powerhouse. A socialist who studies teachers unions, political economy, philosophy, and Marxist theory, he recently worked on his 30th (!!!) DSA campaign with Zohran for Mayor.

We're excited to introduce Leslie C for NPC, a founding member and leader of DSA-LA's Eastside Branch. She is currently at the forefront of fighting ICE in LA: giving know your rights presentations, supporting campaign development, and building coalitions with community groups.

Bobby Seale is still alive and has never renounced his work in the Panthers. But he has said this in more recent interviews. As the Panthers themselves realized in the 70s, changing socio-political conditions call for changing tactics, and the use of armed resistance is a tactic.

Yeah and NYC DSA is doing the same thing

An openminded (rather than party line) reading of US history clearly shows that sectarianism rather than reformism has been by far the biggest flaw of organized socialists 🧵

“if you think critiques of NYC DSA should identify comparatively better alternatives, you believe in fiefdoms, you literal feudalist” yeah you’re right, much healthier attitude you’ve got there

“mass politics” is an accurate descriptor of DSA’s left (SMC & GW) because we believe in putting faith in DSA’s membership, we don’t fear them

“democracy is only deliberative when the voters i think are smart enough make the decisions i want them to make. when democracy causes me to be outvoted, it’s no longer deliberative 😠”

and that’s why all the B&R chapters have more membership and more local political power than NYC DSA….wait….

Counterpoint: there will never be a structure that pleases everyone, and looking purely at results NYC-DSA is the most successful chapter in the org so we must be doing something right

A membership run organization where we don't trust the majority of dues paying members to vote right or be informed...

if I were on the dsa left I wouldn’t hitch my wagon to the argument that letting more people vote inherently helps the faction you oppose. like you could go outside and talk to people too damn!

the attempts to reduce 1m1v to “quantitative” or “spreadsheet”democracy are just fancy ways of saying you need fewer folks to vote bc your ideas are unpopular near identical to the far-right’s attacks on voting rights that warn that “lower quality” populations will get to vote

Wish we'd stop assuming there's a timeless "right" answer to organizational democracy: there's always a context-specific tension between its depth & breadth More deliberation stops being good (or real) when only a sliver of people participate—e.g. horizontalist Occupy assemblies

The 1M1V debate is a mass org vs cadre org, PT vs PSOL, La France Imsoumise vs Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste . A cadre only organization running in circles figuring out its perfect program while disconnected from popular struggles or a history changing org with mass scalability.

the sectarians are unwell