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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 20/06/2026

You could have applied for a national endorsement and had all the support you needed. Why should we help a chapter that has repeatedly told the rest of us we don’t matter?

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 30/11/2024

While I think representative democracy is valid, I don’t think it’s enough to have WG reps elected. How are they responsive to member concerns? What feedback mechanisms are in place. Much of the drama around electeds comes from members feeling they don’t have a say.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 30/11/2024

Yes agree about the endorsement process. I would like to see direct member input into strategy and approach to governing. This could happen through passing a yearly strategy document before the legislative session or something like that.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 30/11/2024

Earnest question…where does the democratic input of members fit into this? All I have seen from the model is a siloing away of electeds from democratic input by the membership.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

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marlo @marlo.ooo · 27/11/2024

many such cases on this website this month

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 28/11/2024

Pro tip- put on a movie while your dough is rising. Makes the time go faster.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 28/11/2024

There is truly nothing that makes me happier than cooking a gigantic and elaborate meal. It’s so fun and I get to just be in the cooking zone.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 28/11/2024

On the whole we all need to work on keeping things political and not letting factionalism turn into grudges. That requires all parties to be truthful and direct with their politics and know that we’re all stuck together and a commitment to democracy and protecting the multi-tendency nature of DSA

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 28/11/2024

Everyone can always tone it down a bit, but there is always going to be factional fights and that’s fine. We also aren’t all always moving in the same direction and we do need to democratically work that out.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 28/11/2024

Ehhh…I think this is a little wishful thinking. It CAN but there are competing interests and visions for the direction of the org. Not everything needs to be a drag out fight, but sometimes it does. In the grand scheme of socialist history DSA is actually very harmonious.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 27/11/2024

This is just cheap opportunism. Continuing to glom onto a disorganizing force for clout. I find it embarrassing.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 27/11/2024

Thanksgiving bake number 3- black bottomed oatmeal pie. Tomorrow is dinner food prep night.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 27/11/2024

That’s life in the ol’ bread and roses.

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Neal Meyer @nealmeyer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Training what Gramsci called "permanent persuaders" — party activists who constantly are organizing their neighbors/coworkers/friends — is a critical political task. Volunteers knocking on strangers' doors and having 30 second convos at election time isn't enough. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Democrats’ much-touted ‘ground game’ was a disaster. Here’s how to fix it

Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 25/11/2024

Not sure how this is relevant to the topic at hand.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 25/11/2024

I’m not a social democrat, but social democracy is part of a socialist tradition. I’m not saying people can’t be social democrats. The ideology here is still socialist though.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 25/11/2024

What constitutes socialism really isn’t up for debate. You can say you’re not a socialist, that’s fine. But you don’t get to argue the definition of socialism.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 25/11/2024

That’s what socialism is and that’s why we need theory.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 25/11/2024

What you are calling for could theoretically happen under capitalism. Though it would not be sustainable for the long term. The removal of the profit motive and the emancipation of the working class from the capitalist class is necessary for a system to be socialist.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 25/11/2024

Yes, that will be the result of socialism, but it is not its goal. The goal of socialism in order for it to be socialism is for the working class to have control over the means of production and the removal of the profit motive from that relationship.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 25/11/2024

First thanksgiving bake complete. Apple cider donut cake. I also have pie dough in the fridge.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 25/11/2024

I don’t have to understand the toaster to use it, but if I wanted to create a new kind of toaster, I need to know how it works, what’s its weaknesses are and how to improve it. Socialism’s goal is to build a new kind of society. We have to understand this one and the one we want to do that.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 25/11/2024

Self-emancipation requires understanding. What things are we getting done? Who decides? How do we know what to do to win? What tactics are we using? What is the end goal? Answering any one of those questions requires theory.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 25/11/2024

Nope, socialism is an ideological project as much, if not more so, than it is an organizing project. It’s one of liberating ourselves as a class from capitalism. We need to do more than just talk about policies and campaigns. Theory is necessary for that.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 24/11/2024

I mean this isn’t really a message for those people. It’s a message for people who organize as socialists about the importance of leading with our own politics.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 24/11/2024

Congrats on being my first block in here.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 24/11/2024

To add…you can have a mass movement that is not socialist in nature and you can have a socialism that is not mass in nature. Our goal is connect our socialist ideology to a movement that is mass and collective. That is the most difficult part.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 24/11/2024

You’re not ideologically close. You’re ideologically distinct. And your defensiveness over having to admit you are not the left is very telling.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 24/11/2024

No you misunderstand me. I am not interested in it being an identity marker. I do think it’s important to see it as movement and a collective struggle. That is part of shifting mindset. But you can’t get there without making the ideological difference clear.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 24/11/2024

I think one thing as socialists we need to be clearer about in this moment is that liberalism even progressive liberalism is not socialism. Becoming a socialist REQUIRES a break with the liberal worldview and a transformation of the way you see and understand the world.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 24/11/2024

Oh really? We were getting universal healthcare? They were giving over the means of production to the workers? They were stopping the genocide in Gaza? Oh wow news to me.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 24/11/2024

Oh yes, the powerful far left with the ability to sabotage the Democrats who would do what we want if we were just nice to them. lol.

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

There's a strange idea among moderates that radicals take far left positions for the vibes, or to posture, or just because they're radical position. We take these stances because we want a livable planet, we want people to have good lives, and because in many cases they're winning positions.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 24/11/2024

One of my favorite things is when it is really obvious that the capitalists want us to like something. Right now it’s wicked, it was Barbie, Taylor Swift falls into this. The act of cultural creation by the ruling class is so blatant and transparent now.

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Megan Romer @meganromer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

DSA is, and has been, doing all of these things, and you (and Bernie) should all join. dsausa.org/join

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 24/11/2024

Bread and Roses comrade, Ramsin in ultra liberalism. Must listen.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 23/11/2024

It’s cool! I don’t find having a kid be inconvenient at all. Being a parent is really fun.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 23/11/2024

If you are cooking for thanksgiving I highly recommend using Smitten Kitchen for all your recipe needs.

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Allan 🌹 @afrash.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Currently in my labor party era

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 23/11/2024

Doesn’t say “socialist” once. No hint of doing what’s right because it’s right. Opportunism is ugly.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 19/11/2024

I really wanna make this site work, but it feels so much less dynamic.

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Kristin 🍞&🌹 @marxandcookies.breadandros.es · 17/11/2024

Agree. It’s actually fine for people to disagree. We can all stand to be a little more kind but everyone in DSA is an adult and we need to stop acting like people simply can never experience conflict.

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