Chana

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Christianity should be incompatible with basically anything that isn't ascetics constantly evangelizing to others. Of course, in the US the most "Christian" thing to do is to be a racist CEO that calls on God to punish LGBTQ people (the CEO is funding hate groups).

At least it's honest about being a new American forward base.

Anglo political circles aren't just shifting everything right, they just don't even know these words or what they mean. To them, cops are socialist because they are publicly funded by also socialism is when Mao killed everyone in China. Communists are the dictators that force everyone to wear the same gray jumpsuit and work in the smog factory and the only Westerners that call themselves communists are confused college students that haven't learned better yet. Don't worry, though, they will become "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" (they describe fascist sympathizers in reality) as they age.

Mention a lefty identity and they will just tell you something wrong, often different things depending on which TV show they watched or pundit they heard last. Tell them you are a socialist and they might tell you that Nazis were socialist (it's in the name!) and how their friend's family had to flee Castro because he was evil and nobody liked him.

so we can retain the right to vote so that we can in people who respect the parliamentarian.

Well I used a weasel word qualifier of "usually" because there are exceptions of course. There is no internal standard or political education program in DSA so it really depends on what composes a given local chapter and who their leadership currently are. It ranges from jokers that never win anything and don't even file for candidacy in time (because they forgot, because life is hard, because Todd was supposed to do it but then he got sick) all the way up to a Mamdani who has been a force for years and has a coalition backing him, not just NY DSA, who are very electorally invested and do have competent people (but overly suffer from electoralism brain and therefore liberalism).

PS you'd hate a lot of NY DSA if you had conversations with them about basically anything regarding imperialism or unions having petty bourgeois limitations or how much to avoid criticizing Iron Dome AOC. Most of them would get themselves banned from this site for chauvinism.

Haha nice

Since he's calling this Dems' "9/11" we should assume this is just an islamophobic reference to it.

It's a truly exhausting strategy. It takes so much work and for very little payoff. And often (usually?) it just makes everyone involved mad at each other and burned out, even worse off than before.

There are ways to make "foment a split" work if your goal is to enrich a particular group and then peel them off of a dead-end org to instead do good work. To me this only makes sense if that group basically already exists but is stuck being useless.

Some commie factions in DSA are basically doing this, knowingly or not, and with unclear success. All DSA factions are basically premised on exhausting their opposing factions as much as possible by being a (often fairly insufferable) advocate for their positions. Obviously the libs are the most guilty of this, they tolerate genocide and tokenize etc etc, but this sets the battleground up: keep opposing these libs within that group and tiring them out or go to another org where you don't have to deal with them, at least internally. If you do the former, you are a hair's breadtg from an entryist + split position, as you are not going to convince the libs, generally speaking, but you may eventually get them to force a split on some key issue, and when your faction is large enough to either take over the org or leave and form a new one.

Entryism is basically this same thing only less authentic because you don't even think of yourselves as truly part of the org, and instead try to join and take over as fundamentally external.

Nice! I don't know if I personally need it yet so don't do any work just for me, ha! But parent might want it!

I'm sure! Deleting or editing any post must go through the API. Just need whatever authentication/authorization mechanism is needed, which for Lemmy (I believe) is a JWT.

I'm sure the API supports it. If there isn't a tool already, someone should make one. For infosec purposes, think of these two things to balanve expectations:

1. Deleting history to prevent leaking any level of personal info is good, as is rotating accounts, because it limits exposure and makes it harder for someone else to "connect the dots".

2. You should assume that anything you post to a website is permanently archived somewhere. If a public website like this one, a person could simply archive hexbear once a day with little effort. Federated instances basically do this in real time. Basically every stateful website uses a database and users have no control over what happens to the data in it - we just hope that admins are careful.