DSA completely fukked themselves. Congrats cosplay socialists. Are you happy? I guess we'll get Medicare for All now
DSA fukked up so badly
In an article published Oct. 12 in The Daily Beast, Thanedar wrote that he was renouncing his membership from the Democratic Socialists of America for the group’s “palpable support for the violence committed against Israel by Hamas.”
But the Metro Detroit DSA, the local branch Thanedar belonged to, said it had voted to expel him from the DSA more than a month prior because of his close relationship with Modi.
“Thanedar’s views are not, and have never been, representative of Detroit DSA,” the group said in a press release. “His sensationalist statement renouncing a membership he is not entitled to is a selfish distraction from the tragedy unfolding in the region.”
Hindus for Human Rights, an organization dedicated to resisting Hindu nationalism, had deeper worries, noting that when Thanedar announced a plan for a Hindu American caucus at an inaugural Hindu American Summit on Capitol Hill in June, Hindu nationalist-allied organizations were present. A few days later, Thanedar, who was born in India, escorted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, head of India’s BJP Party, to Modi’s address to Congress.
“Because it’s a federal caucus, it could be a place for Hindu nationalists to organize lawmakers against holding the Indian government accountable for human rights concerns that the broader Indian community has,” said Ria Chakrabarty, Hindus for Human Rights’ policy director.
“There’s this effort by Hindu nationalists to say, ‘These other Dharmic religions are just other iterations of Hinduism,'” said Chakrabarty. “We don’t want a caucus that is treating all of these different religious groups as the same.”
In the weeks after Thanedar’s announcement, too, some in Congress have raised questions about his fitness to lead. In an October barrage on X, formerly Twitter, Thanedar’s former communications director, Adam Abusalah, alleged that the congressman had a “hard time retaining staff,” noting that six people quit from the congressman’s office within two weeks, including an intern.
“He’s the most ignorant, self-centered, and uninformed human I’ve ever worked with,” tweeted Abusalah.
“While he is busy posting memes, his residents are calling my office asking for my assistance because he is absent from doing his job,” said Tlaib in an interview with Detroit News. “He isn’t putting in the work of a public servant and is leaving his working-class communities across his district with no real advocate.”
Shri is the "cosplay socialist", dumbass. You can't quit a party that already kicked you out.
Shri Thanedar is the biggest fake socialist I've ever seen. He's a Modi sycophant and right-wing Hindutva a$$hole. He's worth $200 million due to shady business deals that he's still settling lawsuits on. After failing to buy the governor's office, he bought his way to a Congressional seat by running in a black district under the DSA banner and self-funding his campaign. It was clear he was going to show his true colors soon - before this war even started, he had already started the Hindu Caucus in congress and his half his staff had already quit cause he's an a$$hole. I only became aware of him when he did the Hindu caucus stunt a month ago, but from first look it was obvious as fukk that he wasn't going to stay with the DSA's pro-oppressed stance for anything.
A congressman's 'Dharma Caucus' stirs suspicion for Hindu and Sikh organizations
(RNS) — The joint statement echoes a growing trend among some Hindu Americans who are concerned with the American political courtship of members of the Bharatiya Janata Party of India — a political party they say has contributed to a rise in oppression of religious minorities.religionnews.com
You can't have it both ways. You can't want more progressives then get mad when self-proclaimed progressives ruin the brands associated with themselves.
This no-true-scotsman shyt isn't going to work
I know for A FACT that progressives online are trying to use Ro Khanna as their access to congress as a prominent progressive ...and we all know for a fact that guy is NOT a progressive. At all. THAT guy is reputation laundering.But he wasn't a progressive. It had become absolutely clear that he was a rich corporate regressive Modi follower who cosplayed as a progressive in order to win a seat in a black community. It's not like this is a young man finding himself, he's 67 years old, this is who he is.
As has already been pointed out, he was kicked out of the DSA before the Israel-Hamas War even started, because the Modi visit and the Hindu Caucus stunt both proved that the fears about him were true and he's just a corporate Hindutva pusher trying to sneak in under sheep's clothing. As a centrist dem, are you going to welcome him with open arms? Are you not curious why Hindus for Human Rights doesn't trust the self-proclaimed head of the Hindu Caucus? Are you wondering why he can't name the other members of the caucus? Does it bother you at all that he's had six staffers quit recently, or that his own communications director said, “He’s the most ignorant, self-centered, and uninformed human I’ve ever worked with"?
This isn't something I just heard about today. I looked him up when he pulled the Hindu Caucus stunt, and it was already clear that he was a BJP plant trying to sneak into the democratic party under a progressive banner.
My point is that these are decisions made by congresspeople under their own volition to join these groups and they're welcomed by leadership.
They own it