You are a major political party. You govern half of the states and at-risk populations are already moving across the country because they scramble towards a sanctuary. You are well-connected to unions, civil rights groups and other orgs about to get fucked over by the federal government. You regularly recruit tens of thousands of campaigning volunteers. You run the second-largest political fundraising network in the world. A metric fuckton of government employees from all possible backgrounds are about to get fired. The half of the country that isn’t gloating over mass deportations may be at the most mobilizable moment in their entire life. And there’s millions of people that need protection because they are about to get hit by the seething rage of a fascist government.
Don’t even get me started on the amount of dirty tricks they could play. The congressional building staff are probably anti-Trump. You could team up with them and fuck with Republicans.
Stop emptying their trash
Stop cleaning their bathrooms
Find their favorite bathroom and close it
Change meeting rooms on them, fuck up the whole meeting schedule
Cut off their internet access periodically
Fuck with their parking
Find out their favorite foods and stop serving them in the cafeteria
Change the locks on their doors or put superglue in them
Throw their umbrellas in the garbage
Throw away their remote controls to their TVs
Hijack their TVs and show shit they don’t like
Put fake crickets and other noise makers around their office
Put really dim bulbs in all their lights
Stinkbombs
Put red ink in their blue pens
Stop buying them office supplies
There is no end to my fucking pettiness and you best believe their lives would be fucking hell. That’s not even getting into the physical threats and battery that would come next. You can throw lots of sand in the gears. I’ll make LBJ cry.
If only. There were people who said Jamaal Bowman deserved to lose his primary for pulling the fire alarm that one time, and these all sound along those lines.
The average Democratic voter appears to be a coward, and their cowardice is putting us all in danger.
Hell, there’s stuff any local Dem party could do right now that’s legal and would scare the shit out of Reps: economic warfare.
Do some real boycotts of anything attached to a GOP donor.
Mail out flyers to all Dems with this info. Call out the shifty GOP small business owners in the area.
Start pointing out how many GOP elected have been caught with various sex crimes. Republicans are set criminals, to put it lightly.
Or just point out all of the shifty comments and lack of caring from average GOP voters. Print them out. Print out screenshots from 4chan and other right-wing incel forums. Print comments from the local GOP cranks whenever they post shit on Meta or X or whatever. Put some sunshine on who these people actually are.
And for fuck’s sake get off X and Meta and put up actual websites for once with clear call to actions like where is the next meeting. So many county parties are just a Facebook page that hasn’t been updated in six months.
Comrade this feels weird, I am not trying to call you out but respectfully I feel your estimates of the popularity of deporting undocumented workers is too high. This is a recent poll shows the base question of “deporting all undocumented persons”, while it has a plurality, is only at 43%. I like that AP poll because it asks a number of questions that show Americans are all over the map on this issue. Like, Americans seems to distinguish quite a bit between deporting recent and not recent migrants. Strongly against separating families. Yeah Americans are very very in favor of deporting “violent criminals” but put yourself in the shoes of a typical American trying to answer that question when asked.
I only push back on this because I believe strongly that there is a tremendous opportunity for the left in the US to seize on the opportunity and do the right thing: boldly take a stand for undocumented workers and push for their rights, and I think it will be more popular than most realize.
I only push back on this because I believe strongly that there is a tremendous opportunity for the left in the US to seize on the opportunity and do the right thing: boldly take a stand for undocumented workers and push for their rights, and I think it will be more popular than most realize.
This is exactly what’s playing out in real world organization right now. has been able to position itself as a legitimate leader of the anti-deportation movement, which means larger numbers of people than I’ve ever seen are following the political direction of a revolutionary communist party.
yeah, the question gets remarkably different answers depending on how it’s asked (naturally) as do trans questions and others. it’s really reductive and misleading to just blanket buy that 80% of the country is in absolute lockstep on trump policies and it will lead to strategic errors in organizing for those who are actively involved in it if they don’t take advantage of what will clearly be growing unrest because they’ve resigned themselves to inaction against some nonexistent mandate
in short, communists should not be taking cues from hakeem jefferies
The half of the country that isn’t gloating over mass deportations may be at the most mobilizable moment in their entire life.
But the problem is this is just not true. Deportations have between 60-66% approval. So it’s not half of the country opposed, it’s a third. And of this third, most of them are in a position of defeat and shock, not in a position to fight and mobilise, which is why the resistance to Trump is much more subdued this time round. The very uncomfortable truth is that Trump’s policies (and Trump to a certain extent) are just that much more popular than they were eight years ago, and the Democratic party’s mandate is not and never has been to stand up for human rights, it’s to win elections. When standing up for human rights was popular, the Democratic party was prepared to work with these unions, civil rights groups and NGOs. But this was always a very unhealthy marriage used to launder the Democrat’s image. Now that this is unpopular, the Democrats aren’t going to waste their political capital on pesky things such as “human rights”. These unions, civil rights groups and NGOs sold out for almost nothing in return. Many on the left, as far back as 2008, were warning these groups about the consequences of getting into bed with Democratic party as a shortcut to achieve their goals, but unfortunately not many listened.
You are a major political party. You govern half of the states and at-risk populations are already moving across the country because they scramble towards a sanctuary. You are well-connected to unions, civil rights groups and other orgs about to get fucked over by the federal government. You regularly recruit tens of thousands of campaigning volunteers. You run the second-largest political fundraising network in the world. A metric fuckton of government employees from all possible backgrounds are about to get fired. The half of the country that isn’t gloating over mass deportations may be at the most mobilizable moment in their entire life. And there’s millions of people that need protection because they are about to get hit by the seething rage of a fascist government.
So yeah, what could you possibly do?
Don’t even get me started on the amount of dirty tricks they could play. The congressional building staff are probably anti-Trump. You could team up with them and fuck with Republicans.
There is no end to my fucking pettiness and you best believe their lives would be fucking hell. That’s not even getting into the physical threats and battery that would come next. You can throw lots of sand in the gears. I’ll make LBJ cry.
If only. There were people who said Jamaal Bowman deserved to lose his primary for pulling the fire alarm that one time, and these all sound along those lines.
The average Democratic voter appears to be a coward, and their cowardice is putting us all in danger.
Hell, there’s stuff any local Dem party could do right now that’s legal and would scare the shit out of Reps: economic warfare.
Do some real boycotts of anything attached to a GOP donor.
Mail out flyers to all Dems with this info. Call out the shifty GOP small business owners in the area.
Start pointing out how many GOP elected have been caught with various sex crimes. Republicans are set criminals, to put it lightly.
Or just point out all of the shifty comments and lack of caring from average GOP voters. Print them out. Print out screenshots from 4chan and other right-wing incel forums. Print comments from the local GOP cranks whenever they post shit on Meta or X or whatever. Put some sunshine on who these people actually are.
And for fuck’s sake get off X and Meta and put up actual websites for once with clear call to actions like where is the next meeting. So many county parties are just a Facebook page that hasn’t been updated in six months.
Incredible democracy in which one side has 49% of the vote and yet is reduced to shidding and crying
‘we can’t do anything’
Comrade this feels weird, I am not trying to call you out but respectfully I feel your estimates of the popularity of deporting undocumented workers is too high. This is a recent poll shows the base question of “deporting all undocumented persons”, while it has a plurality, is only at 43%. I like that AP poll because it asks a number of questions that show Americans are all over the map on this issue. Like, Americans seems to distinguish quite a bit between deporting recent and not recent migrants. Strongly against separating families. Yeah Americans are very very in favor of deporting “violent criminals” but put yourself in the shoes of a typical American trying to answer that question when asked.
I only push back on this because I believe strongly that there is a tremendous opportunity for the left in the US to seize on the opportunity and do the right thing: boldly take a stand for undocumented workers and push for their rights, and I think it will be more popular than most realize.
This is exactly what’s playing out in real world organization right now.
has been able to position itself as a legitimate leader of the anti-deportation movement, which means larger numbers of people than I’ve ever seen are following the political direction of a revolutionary communist party.
yeah, the question gets remarkably different answers depending on how it’s asked (naturally) as do trans questions and others. it’s really reductive and misleading to just blanket buy that 80% of the country is in absolute lockstep on trump policies and it will lead to strategic errors in organizing for those who are actively involved in it if they don’t take advantage of what will clearly be growing unrest because they’ve resigned themselves to inaction against some nonexistent mandate
in short, communists should not be taking cues from hakeem jefferies
But the problem is this is just not true. Deportations have between 60-66% approval. So it’s not half of the country opposed, it’s a third. And of this third, most of them are in a position of defeat and shock, not in a position to fight and mobilise, which is why the resistance to Trump is much more subdued this time round. The very uncomfortable truth is that Trump’s policies (and Trump to a certain extent) are just that much more popular than they were eight years ago, and the Democratic party’s mandate is not and never has been to stand up for human rights, it’s to win elections. When standing up for human rights was popular, the Democratic party was prepared to work with these unions, civil rights groups and NGOs. But this was always a very unhealthy marriage used to launder the Democrat’s image. Now that this is unpopular, the Democrats aren’t going to waste their political capital on pesky things such as “human rights”. These unions, civil rights groups and NGOs sold out for almost nothing in return. Many on the left, as far back as 2008, were warning these groups about the consequences of getting into bed with Democratic party as a shortcut to achieve their goals, but unfortunately not many listened.