Drewfro66
If there is a grain of truth to this story, I'd love to read into it more from a less biased source like Global Times or SCMP.
Liam was on a different boat of the flotilla but not the lead one that got boarded
In other words, "Give up or die".
As long as it's the first Cars I think I could live with it
This is super late but I've been running through my replies today
The difference between the PSL and an org like the DSA or Greens is that we have an explicit ideology. In order to be a full member, you have to take candidacy classes biweekly for almost a year.
Other parties find candidates by some egocentric grifter going up to them and saying "Hey I'm running for [X] I'd love to have your endorsement, yeah sure I'm a Socialist." The PSL has higher standards. If we're going to be fielding candidates, they need to be members, and they need to follow the party program and submit to the Party's authority.
Put these two things together, and it means that while your local PSL Branch may have a large periphery and is very active, it might only have a dozen or fewer full members. And only a very small percentage of those full members are going to be "electable".
What makes a person electable? For many positions, there are age prerequisites, and people prefer candidates at least in their 30's. It's bad optics to run a white Socialist against a Black Democrat in most cases. Some people are too ugly, they're poor public speakers, they are imminently "cancle-able" due to posting behavior or problematic romantic relationships.
So leftist orgs have tons of GenZ autistic transbians and neckbearded schlubs but not a lot of people fit for political office - GenX/elder millennial, attractive and well-spoken, has credentials, no embarrassing posting/romantic history, stable independent household. These are just not the sort of people who are joining the PSL in droves.
As the PSL is building it's membership base, I think the most likely path will just be maintaining legitimacy until our current members who are in their 20s get into their 30s and start to "settle down". At the moment, there are very few "electable" people in my own branch and, out of those few, even fewer actually want to go through it. But we do have a few, where we would have hardly any as of even 5 years ago. Given time, we'll find and build more.
I agree that I think it's silly to draw everything back to "Orientalism".
I would just say that North Korea and Enver Hoxha were/are based and good, actually.
Israel would claim that the flotilla was providing material assistance to a military enemy, and were a legitimate target
"You said you would land on Mars by 2025. You were correct."
I've met up with the RCA guys in my area a few times. They're mostly alright but are exactly what you'd expect
I was going to answer "in the Internet Hole", which was also my college nickname