The annual Socialism Conference in Chicago is just a few short weeks away! Have you secured your ticket yet?
https://socialismconference.org/The subject came up in the current /ukr/ thread,
>>2279417 , specifically the 2019 article by The Gray Zone outing many of the participants as USAID/NED funded glowies:
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/And the weaksauce rebuttal for what little it's worth:
https://newpol.org/in-defense-of-socialist-internationalism-answering-the-propaganda-of-the-authoritarian-left/This thread is for discussing the upcoming event, which I think is safe to say will be the tastemaking event of the year as far as pseudo-left talking points are concerned. Why not get a preview of the hottest psy ops and troll topics of the coming year BEFORE they hit forums near you? It's GLOW-CON!
>>2296974Looks like generic AI slop. If you want
that glow, you should use the raised fist symbol that they use in almost every one of their "revolutions".
>>2296979>>2296670>>2297051The money is going towards the rent for a venue in downtown Chicago, and towards included professional childcare (which by itself would be a lot more than the cost of a standard ticket.) If you want to hold an event on this scale, you're going to incur costs.
That said, the cost is still hard to stomach for me with a session schedule that looks like that. I wouldn't even have to pay for hotel costs like I assume the majority of participants will, yet I'm still on the fence whether to cough up $155 (or even $65) to attend. A major deciding factor for me would be how much they tolerate heckling, which I'm guessing isn't much.
>>2298019>why have it in downtown Chicago?Because the offices of Haymarket Books are there, and they more than anyone else are the ones organizing the event. I'm not an expert on venue planning, but I'm not sure you'd be able to save a whole lot of money doing things outside a purpose-built convention center - sure, you save on rent, but then you have to haul in and set up tons of chairs and PA equipment to whatever rural warehouse you've picked out for cheap, then attendees have to rent cars from the airport and train station and figure out where to park… or you can just have a $100 cover charge and avoid all that hassle.
>Why have a physical event paywalled by tickets+travel+lodging etc at all?There actually are groups that have decided that physical events just aren't worth it anymore, but the majority think that the excitement, comradery, and ease of debate and discussion makes physical events worth the expense. For a negative example, look at the SEP / WoosWoos's somnambulant "International Online Rallies". They might boast about how ever many thousands of people view them on Youtube, but watch this and tell me how many of them are inspired to take action.
>>2298070The second he says the G word the MK ultra experiments wake up from their coma.
>>2298337Pussy culture and pussy people.
>>2298145They arent larping, this is a glowie con.
>>2279546'anti-kashmiri racism' lmao
Kashmiris are the biggest racists in South Asia
>>2298338I'm inclined to think she misspoke in the heat of her self righteous indignation, but "holocaust survivor" seems to be getting stretched pretty far lately.
Cynically, I think it's because there just aren't that many direct survivors of the genocide left, and that's a detriment to the Holocaust industry, but that's just a shallow impression.
>>2299240Nvm I think I found it:
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/09/establishment-daily-beast-rolling-stone-intelligence-ties/
>On July 15, Rolling Stone announced Shachtman “will lead content, editorial strategy and manage [its] illustrious staff.” Among its initial bows to Shachtman’s ascendancy, Rolling Stone removed from its website, after 16 years, a 2005 article called “Deadly Immunity” written by Kennedy.
>Why go back that far to change the past? Kennedy’s piece was about thimerosal in vaccines. He had constructed the article around the previously secret transcript of a clandestine 2000 meeting between 52 pharmaceutical chieftains, academic researchers and public health bureaucrats in a remote Georgia retreat center known as Simpsonwood. The Simpsonwood transcripts show the participants plotting strategies for hiding a 1,135% elevated risk of autism among vaccinated children — compared to unvaccinated — disclosed by an alarming internal CDC study of the government’s largest vaccine database.
>Rolling Stone and Salon had both extensively fact-checked Kennedy’s controversial piece prior to publishing it. Under pressure by pharmaceutical companies, Salon removed Kennedy’s article in 2011 citing undisclosed “factual misinformation.” Rolling Stone steadfastly defended the article as factually accurate for an additional decade until shortly before Shachtman’s arrival. In an article headlined “How the Anti-Vaxxers Got Red-Pilled,” writer Tim Dickinson announced: “The story no longer appears on Rolling Stone’s website.”Boosting Kennedy isn't great but I think the overall scope of the article is more than just being anti-vax, especially when it was written. Aside from that though even if they are anti-vax weirdos that doesn't mean their other reporting isn't valid.
>>2299344Grayzone writers have terminal conspiracy brain so they immediately jumped on the Covid vax hype train.
Ben Norton cringed watching it happen in real time so he split off to do his own thing with the backing of the Chinese left.
>>2300049I can't say that I blame them. Rfk jr and covid skepticism aside they frequently bring receipts.
And I don't know about everyone else but I'm really tired of guilt by association shit.
>>2300031>I'm convinced to this day that one of the speakers at the event was a fed and since this was at the peak of the syrian war they were defending Levant forces in the FSA against "Russian and Assadist imperialism.There was a trotskyist militia that fought for the DSA, not making that up.
I don't even hate Trots, at least not the RCI, but some almost seem to be contrarian on purpose.
>>2298345Israel proved vaccines are shit.
Why are you so adamant about dying on the hill of vaccines? Out of all the medications out there vaccines are the ones that make you freak out.
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