SpookyBogMonster

I don't disagree, but I think it's worth recognizing that when we talk about the DSA, that it is, for better or worse more than just a reformist org.

I would not call Zohran Mandani a socialist.

He literally said, "The end goal is seizing the means of production"

Zohran Mamdani is a Socialist.

Traditionally yes, but the Democratic Socialists of America, as an organization (and of which Mamdani is a member), has a wide array of internal ideological factions within, that include Reformist Socialists, but also more revolutionary factions like Anarchists, Trotskyists, Marxist-Leninists, etc.

Oof, Bernard's old Trotskyism jumped the fuck out

Rare China L

That fucking sucks. Don't they have rich people to execute, or something

Remember no politics! LGBT people's lives can be different because the world isn't LGBT inclusive.

The world not being queer inclusive is political. I might not have legally available HRT by the end of the year :/

Impeachment is how you do that...

The house brings articles of impeachment, and term it's up to the Senate to decide whether or not the president should be convicted, and thus removed from office

Then people started "well red is this, yellow is that, green is that ...."

But the stripes always meant something:

Hot pink = Sex

Red = Life

Orange = Healing

Yellow = Sunlight

Green = Nature

Turquoise = Magic/Art

Indigo = Serenity

Violet = Spirit

Flags being symbolic was never the issue. The progress flag was made in lieu of black, trans, and intersex queer USAmericans being excluded from big, corporate backed, pride events, which brought to the fore, a slew of intra-queer tensions.

By making this new flag, it was a way of symbolically coming together. And it's stuck around because of, well... Everything going on lately.

Weirdly , I think the chevron works. But instead of adding all of the extra stripes , I think it would have been better to make the chevron a single color.

Gilbert Baker, before he died, added a lavender stripe to the original flag to for 'diversity'. I say we blend the chevron with Baker's vision and have it be a singular lavender color

That said, while I think that would be more aesthetically pleasing, I have come around on the progress pride flag in the same way that I like the flag of Maryland. It's so busy that it's circled around from being ugly to charming.

I've seen TERFs use it less, as they've started to win the "trans debate" less of a need to disguise their shit as "protecting lesbians"

Where's the well regulated militia you Americans scream about

So, one could argue that the well regulated militia in question is constituted by the National Guard, as they nominally are the armed forces of individual States, and can be nationalized under certain circumstances.

Except for the fact that Trump just nationalized the California National Guard when he's nominally not supposed to....

Like the relationship between Juche and Marxism-Leninism.

Ok but what is the relationship between Juche and Marxism-Leninism? Because I've tried to wrap my head around it a few times and always struggle.

(Also, Juche Gender, let's fucking gooo!)