Ramsin Canon

Ramsin Canon

@ramsincanon.bsky.social

Not ill jeeves but all of a twitter

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Chicago! What are you doing this weekend? Why not come to the best beer bar in the city and meet me and my comrades for a lively discussion of the role of state power and the ‘democratic road’ to socialism, followed by drinks and fun? A great event for everyone, especially the socialist-curious:

Federation Supreme Court legal drama. Case of the week style. Lots of commercial litigation about how to interpret standard weights and times of delivery for goods given relativity and different solar systems. All just oral arguments

Will BOO!-rows 🖖🥖🥀@reforest-kelley.bsky.social

"If you were in charge of Star Trek what would you do?" Lwaxana Troi sitcom

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TOMORROW!

Chicago DSA@chicagodsa.bsky.social

Join Chicago DSA’s Labor Branch on April 3rd for Jobapalooza!! RSVP tinyurl.com/jobapalooza Jobapalooza will include several workplaces organizing a union, or organizing to boost and support existing union organizing. You will talk with people who want to get a job at the workplace to help organize

Well yes but the Supreme Court deciding that talk conversion therapy programs are viewpoints so strict scrutiny applies when banning them amounts to instruction to every circuit to carve out those programs from bans. What’s the survival rate under strict scrutiny, like 5-10% in speech cases?

🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃@angryblacklady.blacksky.app

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

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NEW CLASS: David D and Ramsin @ramsincanon.bsky.social comradely discuss The Party and all (well, a lot) that it entails 🌹🎉 No way this debate is over, but we made a dent and hope to continue into coming weeks and months! Listen, like, subscribe ⤵️ www.buzzsprout.com/2021076/epis...

buzzsprout.comOur Party - ClassDavid (Socialist Majority, NYC-DSA) and Ramsin (Bread and Roses, Chicago DSA) discuss their perspectives on party-building, political independence, and the democratic road to socialism.  Read Dav...

I’d argue it’s even a little worse, which is that they often believe the US working class isn’t constitutionally able to end capitalism and that global south breaking imperialism is a precondition to change—which is a recipe for organizational tailing and immobility domestically

Blossoming GBabeufing@gbabeufing.bsky.social

My friend and I were talking the other day about some Marxist theorists use theory to justify their passivity (as in “eventually, the inevitable forces of history will achieve communism”) and also identified this type of third worldist thinking of an inert US working class as being similar to that

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Let's remember what happened the last time Sara Nelson and the flight attendants decided to flex their muscles

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

This interview is notable because it contains the same hinting about flight attendants refusing to work if they think the system is not safe that we heard before the 2018 govt shutdown ended. No union workers are obligated to work in an unsafe environment.

Yeah, like in a vacuum the logic of citizens united isn’t really wrong (the type of organization you are shouldn’t so heavily factor into your speech rights) but we don’t live in a vacuum we live in a plutocracy. So long as that is true, every “rule of law” bends to benefit the rich.

dr. rich traditions, JD@helldude.bsky.social

virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk

Only people organized as workers can break that. It’s really frustrating how even some socialists talk about “labor” as one among numerous interest groups. Labor creates wealth so only labor can stop wealth from accruing. Rules to redistribute the wealth after it accrues will always be shaky

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Join Chicago DSA’s Labor Branch on April 3rd for Jobapalooza!! RSVP tinyurl.com/jobapalooza Jobapalooza will include several workplaces organizing a union, or organizing to boost and support existing union organizing. You will talk with people who want to get a job at the workplace to help organize

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The Solidarity Mural is an invaluable piece of our union’s history. When we sold the building in Chicago, we knew we had to rescue the mural. There were technical difficulties including some pieces that crumbled. Can we count on you to help us finish preserving this vital piece of UE’s history?

actionnetwork.orgDonate to Preserve the Solidarity MuralFifty years ago, a team of artists led by John Pitman Weber and Jose Guerrero created the “Solidarity” mural in the lobby of the UE Hall in Chicago, at that time the center of a vibrant working-class ...

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On Sunday, March 15th 2:15pm, join us at Uprising Theater & Cafe for our Chicago DSA Townhall on ICE. RSVP tinyurl.com/uprisingtownhall ICE will return, be ready! Join Chicago DSA & our allies to discuss community organizing in Chicago & other cities affected by ICE terror

That means their other polling is ominous. There is a reckoning barely outside the view of the public that the political class is aware of, and I think it is going to explode into view soon, and the question is, will socialists be ready to capitalize on it, or will we be caught navel gazing?

US Out Of Chicago@raucousdukakis.bsky.social

Took a survey tonight that I'm pretty sure was for Chris Welch that seems to indicate that IL Democrats are at least starting to incorporate DSA-style policy demands into their strategy. Three questions mentioned the org specifically.

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Are we setting ourselves up to communicate only to and through existing activist networks, NGOs and union bureaucracies or are we structuring ourselves in a way to bypass those gatekeepers and forge new, direct connections?

If the org connects itself to the world through existing orgs and institutions, the input we get and output we create will be mediated by third parties and that inherently dilutes our control over our own organizations. Be skeptical of structures and projects that take us in those directions

That means their other polling is ominous. There is a reckoning barely outside the view of the public that the political class is aware of, and I think it is going to explode into view soon, and the question is, will socialists be ready to capitalize on it, or will we be caught navel gazing?

US Out Of Chicago@raucousdukakis.bsky.social

Took a survey tonight that I'm pretty sure was for Chris Welch that seems to indicate that IL Democrats are at least starting to incorporate DSA-style policy demands into their strategy. Three questions mentioned the org specifically.

How are we connecting our organizations to social locations where we are getting real-time input from working class people in motion, and offering a message to those same people, ie, a positive feedback loop embodied in our org structure?

Deep cut but there was briefly a place called Fan Si Pan that made burrito sized spring rolls. It was replaced by Hoosier Mama. That or Zorba’s Diner

Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social

What restaurant that you once loved has closed and broken your heart? For me, it's Taste of Saigon, in Rockville, MD.

Jackson tried to recreate Harold Washington’s political path in the Democratic Party primaries, and Obama eventually took that same model (but stripped of any substance, in truly early aughts fashion)

This is so horrible. The criminality and cruelty of this ruling class has to be answered with more ruthless cruelty if we’re ever going to end stories like this

Gregory Pratt@royalpratt.bsky.social

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

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Replying to @leonardpierce.bsky.social

I get it, we can't get rid of capitalism or we'd lose its great innovations like the CSAM chat room, the suicide robot, the plagiarism machine, the doorbell snitch, the fake money generator, the self-immolating auto-car, the thing that puts ads in your ads, and the sex creep sunglasses. But still

For real, QAnon dropping the ball on this when it was their whole purpose is like how Skype lost out to Zoom when the pandemic started

Joel D. Anderson@joelanderson.bsky.social

What the hell was Qanon doing? There really was/is an international child sex trafficking ring and they got almost none of the leaders of it right. Just a whole group of world-class stupid motherfuckers, man

That podcaster saying he’s not a bootlicker because he voted for the boot is among the funniest cope I’ve ever seen, you know his fans were like cmon man don’t admit that in front of people, bc it admits the pathetic psychological projection they’re doing

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Interested in learning more about DSA, democratic socialism, and our political vision? This event will provide a brief overview of DSA and a longer discussion of our political program, Workers Deserve More. Nonmembers interested in DSA are welcome! Info & RSVP: teamup.com/ksc3uaa38o41...

Just woke up from an amazing but bittersweet dream that me and Raekwon had to console GZA because he was feeling guilty that his five percenter beliefs and cursing in songs caused his mom to die. Dream-me said, “GZA, guilt is just your grief looking for a place to go.” Good job, Dream-me.

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Join Chicago DSA and Tanggol Migrante Chicago for a Press Conference at the Philippines Consulate Thursday, Dec 18th at 11am. We will demand that the Philippines Consulate take immediate action to advocate for Tita Rebecca’s safe return home for the holidays!

Vengeance

Leigh Kunkel@leighkunkel.bsky.social

For them to come back to Chicago just before the holidays, right as everyone's nervous system was starting to reset from months of operating in crisis mode, just shows how much joy they find in the cruelty

That was a disappointing thing about the Captain Marvel movie, the comic book version is likeable in part bc she’s a recovering alcoholic who was (in-universe) famously insecure, but nevertheless still traveled the universe doing cool shit and punching aliens

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Sinatra to Soviets: “Knock Off That Commie Bunk or it’s Ring a Ding Ding For You Bozos!”

Nick Fleisher@nickfleisher.bsky.social

What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"