Leaked picture of OOP:

Ok this dork calling himself a harringtonian at least made me look up Michael Harrington and learn something about the history of the DSA.

Here’s some choice bits:

Harrington was a founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America and its most influential early leader.

After leaving The Catholic Worker, Harrington became a member of the Independent Socialist League (ISL), a small organization associated with the former Trotskyist activist Max Shachtman. Harrington and Shachtman believed that socialism, which they believed implied a just and fully democratic society, could not be realized by authoritarian communism, and were fiercely critical of the “bureaucratic collectivist” states in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.

Although Harrington identified personally with the socialism of Thomas and Eugene Debs, the most consistent thread running through his life and his work was a “left wing of the possible within the Democratic Party.”

You may already be reeling in pain, but there’s more:

Harrington was present in June 1962 at the founding conference of Students for a Democratic Society. In clashes with Tom Hayden and Alan Haber, he argued that their Port Huron Statement was insufficiently explicit about excluding communists from their vision of a New Left.[14] Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. called Harrington the “only responsible radical” in America.

Harrington said that socialists had to go through the Democratic Party to enact their policies

And if you still had to ask at this point:

A Zionist, Harrington supported Israel on socialist grounds.

Man, not even Gorbachev thought Gorbachev handled his tenure well

“You thought you were gonna do spy shit when joining the CIA huh”

Very cute, now get in the re-education box

Sometimes we’re calling them the moderate wing of fascism because the libs are like “yes we need the Mordor gate at the southern border to keep Mexicans out”

That would be one of the “many times” when “push came to shove” and the libs caved.

They also historically cave on queer rights, and refused to codify Roe V Wade if you want to get granular and American about it.

Goddamn debate nerds

I am Sisyphus, but instead of rolling a boulder up a hill for eternity, I must watch people argue about the merits of being “left of dem” for eternity

I just assume that anyone with political endorsements for specific US elections in their bio is hopelessly lost in the sauce. Looks like this one caught a case of anticommunism that coincided with a teenage “will never accept being wrong” mentality, and the result is someone who, confronted with the ego danger of encountering someone to their left, doubles down on anticommunism until they’re just a nazi. Many such cases, genuinely.

Execute all twitter leftists

Including me

(I’m not on twitter but that’s fine I guess)

Austin, TX

that about sums it up.

That “AOC 2028” bio page at the end was like a jumpscare that I still should have 100% expected

“Read” folks I gotta tell you right now libs will never do this unless it’s pure slop

analyzing and predicting hyperreality w/r/t social media is the experience of having 0% proof, 0% capacity to acquire proof, and 100% assurance that what you are looking at is a bot or sockpuppet

I’ll give them one thing, they are very good at posting rage bait.