there's a lot more small biz tyrants than petit bourgeois class traitors but the latter do exist and need to be found/linked up with! revolutionaries have always had to find friendly bars, etc, to have their meetings and whatnot at after all.
EDIT: in the context of the chart, the types of sympathizers/traitors i'm thinking of may fit better in "the sympathetic base"
i, against my better judgment, am still here 
yeah seriously. honestly, unless you live in the global south or imperial periphery, quit with the performative "we're doomed because the American proletariat sucks so much ass, wah wah wah" bullshit. if you're American you want an excuse not to do shit while simultaneously feeling better than the Rest of the Treatlerites, if you live in another imperial core country you benefit from the same fucking satanic exploitation (and honestly your working class gets a bigger slice of the suffering-pie since a lot of yall are social democracies).
if you already do stuff or idk live deep in CHUD country and there just aren't any orgs near you, disregard this post it is not directed at you.
DSA/PSL/FRSO/Code-Pink/Samidoun/whatever are the opposition in the US. There is no other "adult in the room" that you can just whine at and have things fixed. There are no official rules. There is no bigger plan. What we have now is what exists.
PSL "marxist footsoldier"
in this economy, it’s not just the straights who aren’t OK 
TY comrade. i try to maintain a certain kind of revolutionary love/universal compassion, but it’s pretty frequently overridden by waves of misanthropy. i think this is a good reminder to keep in my back pocket for when those waves come.
yeah the way we talk to each other here shouldn’t be how we talk to the broader working class. moving the masses takes a lot of patience and meeting people where they’re at, making them feel heard and not dismissed, and easing them further along by at once finding points of agreement but also encouraging them to go further with their critique of the system.
EDIT: also our private convos with people in our lives trying to change their minds separate from a larger org recruitment strategy or concrete organizing ask only has so much value, don’t drive yourself crazy trying to shift every single persons thinking. like it can have some light value and plant some meaningful seeds, but just keep some perspective.
if they were trying their best, they would take seriously the many, many concerns people have had about a lack of accountability, transparency, and community input over the past year. instead they continue to make decisions in a black box matrix server where they shittalk the userbase - the people that actually make this site worthwhile despite its many, deep problems - and run cover for abusive members of the community if those people are their personal friends or they find them funny enough or they align on some pet issue. i'm not mad at your comment to be clear, i've agreed with your analysis across this whole struggle sesh and am pointing out what i think the real core issue here is.
shit, i wanted to find the right time/place to make a nerdy effortpost about how people are operating on an oversimplified view of what a "vassal state" is, how there's a base superstructure feedback loop here where US imperialism is the root cause, but belief in Zionism w/in the ruling class takes on a life of its own and informs the base, but that's not worth it right now because it's clear people's analyses on israel aren't the issue and neither is antisemitism. it's site management refusing to take an L, self crit, change site processes, and then continuing to cudgel the userbase with their radlib liberal zionist brainworms they refuse to grow on. (and to be just slightly conciliatory, yes, mods are not a monolith - when i say "the mods, the admins, site management" i mean admins and the powermods they allow the most sway over the community).
rlly varies, if your online application gets black holed i'd follow your PSL local's insta and go to either an upcoming protest or meeting and talk to a member about your interest in-person there.
I try not to bully people IRL the way i do online
fwiw this is a positive, prosocial instinct. unlike online, reaching & moving ppl irl involves a lot of patience & meeting ppl where they're at. if someone comes at you hot/aggressive a little self-defense counterbullying is fine tho ofc
the virgin gigachad vs the chad this fuckin kid