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Honestly its rude to be invited by a country to meet their president who decided to respond to your criticisms of their administration only to not show up and go meet the opposition.

Being invided and then no showing shows complete disregard to basic diplomatic Etiquette since it was a mission to show solidarity against the embargo

Bonus socdems being cringe part 4.5: about another member that didnt show up to the presidential meeting

Deeply unserious people

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[–] bdonvr 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I might be ignorant on this, but did DSA call these people out or apologize for their behavior? Because they were essentially acting as diplomats for the org and if not strongly refuted then indeed reflect badly on the org as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

The DSA isn't a single entity really, it's a decentralized mass of tons of different squabbling groups. Some of them are attempting to repudiate them, others are defending them. The DSA isn't really capable of enforcing discipline on its members.

[–] bdonvr 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

:deeply-unserious:

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

I'd say the DSA is LARPing as the CNT-FAI with all the disfunction and infighting, but we all know that 90% of the DSA don't deserve the honor of being compared to people who actually went out and shot fascists.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This whole organization is a mess, being able to keep a cogent message for the party is the bare minimum in organizing political action

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s not a party though. It’s a site of struggle and a place where communists can organize and educate among a very large membership of people open to left wing politics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How effective is that if all they have been able to produce is more liberals

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That’s not the case though. This article should serve as an example of that. Red Star was a small ML caucus in San Francisco a few years back. Now they’re a national force that hold a sizable number of positions in DSA national leadership including one of DSA’s two cochairs. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the authors of this article were liberals when they first joined DSA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I might be ignorant on this, but did DSA call these people out or apologize for their behavior?

Impossible to tell from this article