As a DSA member and elected officer in a medium-size chapter, just want to say pretty much everything you’ve said is 100% correct. DSA is multi-tendency, but the idea that democratic socialism (or mainline opinion within DSA) is based on some weird non- or anti-Marxist socialism is both historically bizarre and…

The person you’re replying to is a troll but for the record by basically every metric the US is significantly more unequal than Venezuela (we’re just much, much richer in aggregate), and the gap in social mobility has been rapidly declining for the last 50 years or so, to the point of parity. The generational poverty i…

So I never comment on here anymore (sorta lost track of my username in one of the Great Kinjaings yeeeaaars ago), but as a (newish and initially extremely skeptical) DSAer: no idea what your local is (and there’s definitely enormous variations city to city) but you do Very Good Posts, and if you’re on the fence about…

I mean- Chile has 3 or 4 guys unquestionably better than any US player in history (Bravo, Medel, Alexis, Vidal). Argentina, it’s pretty tough to pick the regular starter that isn’t better than anybody the US has ever produced. At best it’s veeeerrry mild hyperbole.

This is where I’m a bit torn. From a storytelling and experiential standpoint, the potential of these things seems *staggering*. On the other hand, everybody in those photos looks dumb as hell, and I’m genuinely not kidding when I say I think that could potentially be a dealbreaker for this going mainstream.