You're the one who made the illogical connection.
DSA co-chair shows what an insane platform they have.
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T. A. Gardner
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Maybe not, but it has a whole slate of persons running for office as Democratic Socialists.
DSA endorsement tracker: The socialists running for office across America
The Washington Examiner's tracker lists candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America for federal offices, governor, and mayor.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
The DSA Class of 2026: 11 Democrats Running as Socialists
Here are 11 candidates calling themselves socialists out loud in 2026.
ivn.us
Our Campaigns – DSA National Electoral Commission
electoral.dsausa.org
T. A. Gardner
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The question of who the DSA is running for office aside, no Leftist / Democrat / Progressive here has tried to defend their platform which was the original topic of this thread.
No Rightist / Republican / Regressive here has tried to defend their platform.
T. A. Gardner
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They wouldn't. On the other hand, I can go through their platform and point out the insanity and absurdity of it. As one example: Abolish prisons.
Which is the point. It destroys your bait.
Link to that part on the DSA website.
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Abolition Working Group - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Defund. Abolish. Create. The National Abolition Working Group was formed to create a collective orientation towards abolitionist organizing within DSA and to build meaningful relationships with external organizations committed to the struggle for liberation. We are both building our internal...
www.dsausa.org
We are committed to the horizon of abolition and the path leading us there. Our demands:
- Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero
- End the criminalization of working-class survival
- Freedom for all incarcerated people
- Demilitarize the police and end colonial policing of our cities and neighborhoods
- Freedom of working-class self-organization and democratic political action
- Invest in community self-governance and care, not cops
Okay, I did in 5 seconds what you could have done yourself.
I already saw that before asking. So I'll ask again... Where does it say that prisons should be abolished?Abolition Working Group - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Defund. Abolish. Create. The National Abolition Working Group was formed to create a collective orientation towards abolitionist organizing within DSA and to build meaningful relationships with external organizations committed to the struggle for liberation. We are both building our internal...
We are committed to the horizon of abolition and the path leading us there. Our demands:
- Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero
- End the criminalization of working-class survival
- Freedom for all incarcerated people
- Demilitarize the police and end colonial policing of our cities and neighborhoods
- Freedom of working-class self-organization and democratic political action
- Invest in community self-governance and care, not cops
Okay, I did in 5 seconds what you could have done yourself.
T. A. Gardner
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If you free all incarcerated people, doesn't that mean there are no prisons?
Prison Abolition and the War on the Poor
A program to abolish prisons and police needs more than sloganeering. We need a program that understands the struggle to win control for all the people looking to pursue a more just society.
washingtonsocialist.mdcdsa.org
Everybody else gets it. They want to abolish prisons.
And you honestly think that means no prisons? I know you're smarter than that.If you free all incarcerated people, doesn't that mean there are no prisons?
Prison Abolition and the War on the Poor
A program to abolish prisons and police needs more than sloganeering. We need a program that understands the struggle to win control for all the people looking to pursue a more just society.
Everybody else gets it. They want to abolish prisons.
What we need are humane prisons and rehabilitation.
"The DSA wants Hannibal Lecter freed." - @T. A. Gardner
T. A. Gardner
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Yes. The want the release of all persons incarcerated.
Rehabilitation generally doesn't work, and US prisons are humane already.
Reducto ad absurdum fallacy.
Again where?
Do you honestly think they want dangerous criminals such as murderers, kidnappers, rapists and such released?
Certainly you cannot be this dumb?
It works for drug users.
And?
Nope. It's your illogical connection.
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You obviously can be. You're down in lawyer territory here, and they're some of the dumbest fucks on the planet.
Not for the majority of them.
Um I'm not the one who made the retarded claim that they want all prisoners released and no more prisons.
So?
T. A. Gardner
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The DSA was.
Ok they want all dangerous criminals released.
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They apparently think that scolding them or something is all they need. After all, Leftist judges, prosecutors, etc., already are doing that with vicious criminals.Ok they want all dangerous criminals released.
Who?
There's already threads on that. You can thank our resident persistent troll.