I feel like his jackets have gotten worse as Nvidia valuation has gone up

Seeing this one, we must be at the peak

1. Very interesting timing to try to bring back this type of stuff. I'm sure we'll see a lot of Dem "progressives" borrowing from this. Preview of 2028 discourse.

2. What does this have to do with Hasan? I guess even on bearsite people just toss his name on anything to farm engagement.

I'm shocked to hear there was a rich person at a senator's event

"so many proteins to choose from"

Should sell a branded kevlar neck gaiter, that would make more sense

Yeah, but $9? Will people pay $9 for a meme? Will zoomers pay $9 to troll their uncles at Christmas? idk, it sounds plausible at least. Would work better if the Kirk sauce was more Kirked though, it's almost too normal

It's also just pathetic; however much she nets on this, even if it goes well, is probably less than one donor check or one speaking fee would have brought in before

Curious to get some opinions: what, if anything, should non-members be doing about all of this?

I think it's reasonable to discuss informally in our own orgs & communities, to hopefully learn some lessons from it. Would the same apply to more open discussions (posting, articles, letters, or whatever) assuming it's done in a productive way? Is it best to let former/current PSL folks figure it out without added noise/pressure? Or is maintaining some amount of pressure useful?

What about for non-members working in coalitions and whatnot? Wait and see how things develop? At what point do they go on the "avoid as much as possible" list? I don't think they've reached that point yet, but that's the direction currently. Are we obliged to let them know publicly before things reach that point?

Edit: It really seems like their leadership is in serious denial. There are certain other orgs, who every new leftist is warned about by other organizers of other tendencies. It becomes the thing everyone knows about, the org everyone is warned about. And those orgs stop growing, turn inward, and become cult-like. It's how a lot of orgs end. And their leadership thinks they're preventing it, by repeating the exact steps that cause it.

Didn't the ISO claim around that many members at their plateau, during the Bush & early Obama years? I think historically a lot of US orgs have topped out around that size for whatever reason. Hopefully a coincidence and not a pattern.

PSL was originally a split from a Trotskyist group, so I wouldn't necessarily read too much into the choice of jargon, unless someone who knows a lot more specifics wants to weigh in.

We should make one called "The Hexbear Prize in Posting Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" since apparently that's all it takes

His coalition is really falling apart, at this point the base that's remaining is (white) Florida boomers and (white) southern gen-x restaurant owners, not much else

honestly I don't know how they survived for so long after publishing that