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A lot of leftists on social media are Big Mad that DSA required masks at their National Convention.
(hexbear.net)
Of all the things you could critique DSA on, this is the hill you're going to die on? 
DSA deciding to do a mask mandate at this event is unequivocally good and based. Shut the fuck up, you fucking dipshits.
Imagine being this much of a fucking goddamn crybaby about masking. Eat shit, you ableist fucks.
One of the biggest lessons this pandemic has taught me is the astounding number of people for whom leftism is really just performative, and that when push comes to shove, these people will make the biggest fucking stink about having to do something even mildly inconvenient for even a single fucking event or context and show themselves for who they really are.
Real impressed by all the
armchairs ITT who are the real DSA understanders, not those of us who spent 3 months planning for the convention and pulled 16-18 hour days all weekend trying to improve the org (which we got a good start on) and network with other leftists to bring resources and support back to the workers organizing in our cities. You all are the real leftists, I dont know what we would do without your keyboards.
If you weren't at the commie caucus party at UE hall raising money for striking workers in Erie, if you werent on the picket line supporting striking queer nightclub workers, if you spent this weekend watching anime and still have the energy to post a priori bullshit that you think makes you a radical, save yourself the energy and just
I went through this rigamarole 4 years ago. hope your experience is different but I walked away 1. burnt out and 2. with the sincere impression that the org is beyond salvaging. hope you manage to succeed where we failed but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Sorry to hear about your experiences, comrade. It sounds really frustrating. Ive been put off by orgs before and it feels like a real defeat.
Maybe I'll learn the same lessons, but this is where my journey has led me so far. And we have helped people form unions and take actions against their bosses, and tonight the mobilized left in my state scored an honest to god (intermediate) victory for reproductive care access. Theres the fight for lgbtq+ especially attacks on trans people. Maybe I can't change the org but I can organize locally and work with a crew. And I'm in a caucus so I do participate in national DSA politics. Dont hold your breath but the org is changing. I guess what is yet to be seen is what kind of reaction will there be, and from where?