Dirt Road Democratic Socialist

Not pretty, but striking.

I don't want followers, but those who think for themselves are welcome to stick around.
She/Her Excellency

🌹democratic socialism🌹

[Dirt Road Democratic Socialist @Smartremarx]

It's skeevy to join DSA if you oppose democratic socialism; it is ultra-skeevy to also exploit DSA's dues waver that's intended for low-income folks who do want to fight for democratic socialism.

[WAKE UP @FalseConsc]

There is literally no down side to “duel carding” and being in DSA. You will be allowed to provide input on decisions as a communist in your chapter. You can sign a dues waiver or make dues as low as you want. There’s no restriction on being in other orgs or parties. Do it.

[Labor Campaign For Single Payer @LaborforSPayer]

Maybe health care would be more affordable if it was used to provide health care instead of create billionaires? If the choice is “provide health care” or “make health care company owners billionaires,” which should we choose?

[Dirt Road Democratic Socialist @Smartremarx]

@chimeraxmachina I am all for reading Marxist thinkers, but treating it like a religion instead of sets of analytical tools? Nah. And the left is rife with people who would be much better organizers if they got actual psychotherapy!

[Emmanuel ❣️ @em_umoh]

@chimeraxmachina You have to go past Marx though. Read Keynes too. The issue with treating Marx as gospel is that Marx didn’t treat Marx as gospel.

[Dirt Road Democratic Socialist @Smartremarx]

@Kellen_Browning Michael Harrington & Barbara Ehrenreich are smiling down & raising a glass in democratic socialist heaven. 🌹🍻🌹

[Dissent Magazine @DissentMag]

Our choice is between a future in which we own and control the datafied infrastructures that shape our lives, or one in which capital continues to steal from us.

https://t.co/mD2CSk1JyF

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

You are SO close to getting the point. I have faith in you.

[Joe Trippi @JoeTrippi]

Umberto Eco, writer: “The tragedy of the Internet is that it has promoted the village idiot to the level of bearer of truth” - AS USA https://t.co/fJjQ3PA7Ah

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Well, your forebears should have thought of that before they went around the world colonizing the lands of Mohammeds, Khans, and Patels.

Enjoy your racism!

[Dirt Road Democratic Socialist @Smartremarx]

@petersterne Michael Harrington smiles and raises another pint in socialist heaven. 🌹

[Rosa Luxemburg Foundation @rosaluxglobal]

🎉 Happy Birthday, James Baldwin! Born #OnThisDay in 1924, Baldwin became one of the 20th century's most brilliant writers and fiercest voices against racism, capitalism, and injustice. As a Black, gay man, he understood and exposed systems of oppression with unmatched clarity.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Netanyahu: I need $12 billion
Trump: Approved

Elon Musk: SpaceX needs $4.16 billion
Trump: Approved

Jeff Bezos: Amazon needs $17.5 billion
Trump: Approved

Top 1%: We need a $1 trillion tax cut
Trump: Approved

Average Joe: My wife has cancer. Can we get Medicaid?
Trump: Denied

[Dissent Magazine @DissentMag]

Rolling back MAGA will require speaking to popular needs and aspirations and delivering on them. It will also require developing our capacities to work together in a spirit of democratic cooperation.

https://t.co/gFnVnklg9f

[cob @cob_is_online]

People who own multiple homes asked to do single instance of paperwork and they're howling. These people would never survive applying for Medicaid

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

DSA has the most articulate politicians in America.

[Dissent Magazine @DissentMag]

Politicians like Roosevelt and La Guardia harbored principled commitments, but social achievements came not from the visions of politicians, but because the people of the city were sufficiently well-organized to compel them to act.

https://t.co/DewjlHXhq0

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The city-council member Nithya Raman was an ally of Karen Bass, but Raman launched a challenge against her to bring more “urgency” to fighting the city’s housing crisis. https://t.co/YgdozsBoEV

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Hey guys, since you released faucis diary maybe now we can do the Epstein files?

[Dissent Magazine @DissentMag]

Last year, billionaires made 19 percent of reported federal campaign contributions. Epstein is gone, but we’re stuck with a class of people with effectively infinite resources that they can devote to whatever they want.

https://t.co/9QqE1YOQW1

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

As temperatures rise, “America is making a concerted effort to make the problem worse as fast as it possibly can,” argues environmentalist Bill McKibben.

“We've shut down wind farms that are 90% finished off the Atlantic seaboard, put the federal land off-limits to solar panels, done every possible thing we could to buck up 18th century energy technology.”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft. They have been stealing the wealth that we all created. It’s why everything sucks right now. We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis. We don’t have a government of, by, and for the people. We have a government of, by, and for the billionaires”