trots were a lot more common ~30 years ago or so. swp (socialist workers party) was big (for an american communist party) when i was a kid and in true trot fashion ended up splitting into a number of nominally active and defunct parties. PSL actually comes from that lineage via the workers world party who split from swp. these days socialist alternative had been fairly active though they don’t come from the US swp tree. Kshama Sawant was a city councilor in Seattle under SA though i believe she also did a split along with a faction of that party. trots in general are still a going concern pretty much everywhere but with the frequency of party splits and the lack of the USSR as a foil you see where they get the reputation for factionalism and being smallish newspaper/book club orgs.

i think to your first question there’s some accuracy there but, taking off my hexbear hyperbole hat, social democrats are common enough even if they don’t have the terminology for it and social democrats with neoliberal characteristics aren’t exactly uncommon anywhere you find social democrats. democratic socialists being social democrats is common enough to be a thing but it’s not a given and for some people this is a sort of intermediate stage. online is whatever, but Communist is a loaded term in the US when you’re interacting with the waking world where it’s much more rare to hear used as a descriptor and usually not without some meaning behind it. on-the-ground anarchists who use communist as a descriptor are usually anarcho-communists who work within mutual aid and bloc circles, ml and trot leaning people will usually have some sort of theoretical development even if it’s nascent or piecemeal. in the US those people are of course rare but that goes back to what I mean about ‘communist’ being a rare descriptor offline for a variety of reasons.

what you need to understand is that democrats in south carolina decide elections and if you disagree with that then you are a racist.

idk, the moonrunners, maybe the electric eliminators

the lesser satans are still very much satans.

no https://hexbear.net/comment/6272720

It’s not just lately, it’s been a significant tendency since we liferafted in from the discord, waxing and waning but it’s always there and always deserves pushback. this isn’t a serious business organizing forum but it doesn’t mean we cant be earnest when it comes to how we work in our own communities

as a fellow grass toucher i always appreciate your takes on organizing and appreciate and agree with this excellent internet post.

they’re like 3/4 of the economy of Salem, MA

amazing, the average modern f150 crew cab bed is slightly smaller than or roughly the same size as my el Camino’s, depending on if they spring for the 6.5 footer. my novelty car is more of a truck than Joe bob’s masculinity totem