We know the SWP is controlled opposition, but my district’s ballot is just a clown show of Zionists. The choices in my district are this, MAGA, or the AIPAC darlings Booker and Gottheimer. Anyone have decent third parties on your ballots?

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    A couple years ago an SWP person showed up at a local city council meeting where I live.

    We (coalition of a few pro-BDS orgs) were trying to get the city council to commit to not investing in Israel and to passing a ceasefire resolution.

    The SWP person showed up to call us anti-semites

    • that dude is cool. i just looked him up, and back in 2011 he had his membership in the National Press Club suspended (this suspension was later lifted by the Ethics Committee) when he attended a press conference and asked an al-Sa’ud Prince / former head of Saudi intelligence a self-described “tough” question. here’s the question, which is:

      There’s been a lot of talk about the legitimacy of the Syrian regime, I want to know what legitimacy your regime has, sir. You come before us, representative of one of the most autocratic, misogynistic regimes on the face of the earth. Human Rights Watch and other reports of torture, detention of activists, you squelched the democratic uprising in Bahrain, you tried to overturn the democratic uprising in Egypt and indeed you continue to oppress your own people. What legitimacy does your regime have — other than billions of dollars and weapons?

      guy was not playing lmao. i bet the apparatus fucking hates him.

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      On January 16, 2025, Husseini was physically removed from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s final press conference after interrupting Blinken’s prepared remarks with questions about the United States’ handling of the genocide in Gaza and United States complicity in Israeli war crimes in the Israel–Hamas war. As Husseini was being removed, he shouted “Criminal! Why aren’t you in The Hague?” (a reference to the International Criminal Court). Husseini reported afterward that he was “carried out and handcuffed”, and that he felt that the security team had used “excessive force”.

      waow-based

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    Btw for my third parties, with exception of 1 office, MAGA freaks stole my state Green Party’s elections so everyone, sans that aforementioned 1 guy, are right-wingers running under the Green ticket while being actively opposed by the Green Party itself. If you want any real Green candidates you gotta write them in.

    The state of the Governor ballot doggirl-tears

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    Is it controlled, if they came to that opinion on their own?

    I stg, I can’t stand trots. As an ML, I have great respect for my Maoist and Anarchist comrades, because they’ve actually made Revolution. Trots have never even gotten close, and just devolve into bizarre cults with backward lines on everything from Israel, to UFOs, to The Big Bang.

    Deeply unserious

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      Is it controlled, if they came to that opinion on their own?

      They came to this opinion on their own, from what I understand. They’re not an op they just suck. Even SEP (Socialist Equality Party. The trot, extreme sectarian formation that runs the World Socialist Website) is better than them. ACP might be better than them too.

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        Yeah they’re definitely the worst socialist org in the US because they’re the only one who are truly intensely pro-Zionism, genocide, and apartheid. Not just in the passive, insufficiently critical way of some orgs, but they genuinely love Israel and their primary goal is promoting it.

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    We need to find effective ways to do write-in campaigns when this happens. This removed needs some shaking up more than a 30 year old MMO