DSA (outside of the local chapter which was told not to do it but they have the independent right to) did not endorse her. She has no relationship to the org and pretty much everyone in leadership does not like any of the former Sanders campaign people (outside of the ones who have gone all in on DSA and labor) and does not talk to them. Nina specifically was never going to get national endorsement (nor did she even seek it) because of political disagreements and also everyone was confident she would lose badly.

I don't even know if she is still a DSA member.

I don’t want dues going towards his campaign

No dues have ever gone to any political campaign actually technically (staff time may get some liason assigned, but we can't give campaigns money). In fact we can't spend more than 40 percent of our budget on anything electoral or the feds shut us down for violating the 501 c 3 laws.

He did say he did not support BDS, however he did retroactively flip flop in the initial endorsement regarding funding Israel.

Yeah Bowman's endorsement was basically a rush job 3 weeks before his election. Paid off massively in PR until the the past month. IMO the NPC made the tough but correct position. Expulsion is not a punishment any more un-endorsement is in terms of DSA affecting Bowman's campaign, and expelling right now could have made building a stronger party more difficult in the near term (don't totally buy that, but it's not unreasonable, enough for me to be okay with the decision).

What's going to happen is that the national electoral committee is not going to endorse any federal office candidate who doesn't hit the platform points again (rightfully). This is the first time a real burn has happened with the federal reps, everyone knew this was going to happen eventually. It's the reason every chapter is now copying NYC DSA's endorsement questionnaire practice more diligently.

This has been quite a brewing internal DSA debate as it was partly the Las Vegas DSA chapter in the state that did this. IMO it's basically meaningless, the shadow party is in full force and will with decent chances win the primaries because the DSA chapters don't have enough members to field their own candidates and do the needed canvassing.

Lol the article is basically Engels clumsily trying to intervene inter-italian debates on behalf the guy opposing the group Bakunin was supporting.

Yeah I had a class offer extra credit once for writing a summary of quantum key distribution suitable for Wikipedia. Tbh a lot of theoretical math and cs articles aren't particularly good either.

Linux shows all the problems of mutualism lol, it just gets subsumed into capital and cannot overcome it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1gaoyo/was_mithraism_a_rival_to_early_christianity_what/ good one on Mithraism.

The Battle of Chile (I have all 3 parts downloaded, can send it to a mod for hosting).

There were other cults that got huge too, what became Catholicism (ignoring the east west schism in the 11th century) just won out. For example the Mithraic Mysteries, and several other mystery religions (and outside the empire there was also Manichaeism which was the major competitor to Christianity and Islam in central Asia and Persia, and North Africa for a time, it by far was the biggest competitor, lasting in China till the 14th century. Augustine of Hippo famously converted from Manichaeism to Christianity. It was a syncretic religion, taking aspects of zoroastrianism, christianity, judaism, and Buddhism I think. It revered Zoroaster, the buddha, and Jesus as prophets. Really interesting in that Zoroastrianism also as a base used the same myths as the Rigveda). Christianity was just rather special in the empire in that it was centered more on common practice and salvation than the mystery cults. However it's important to remember that there were many varieties of Christianity super different from one another vying for mass support, and what became catholicism won out via state support and organization like the Nicean councils (as well as outside factors resulting in the decline of others, like the Church of The East). There were versions where Christ was just a man or just a god, where there two different gods, or seven, or hundreds, and all calling themselves "Christianity" (got that from a good askhistorians thread). A quite strange and eclectic one of these, Gnosticism, had ideas get into Manichaeism that made it to China, and still survives in bits in pieces in Mandaeism, a small now ethnic religion in Iraq.

Yep. Note this only works if your variable is distributed like a Gaussian though (however even if it is not, there are other sampling techniques).

I had family shocked McDonald's was offering 15 an hour, until I told them they only gave any worker like 10 hours.

The sample size is actually not that bad, however it's not random, so it's garbage.

They're practically all dead by now, absolutely no influence.

Yeah Russia certainly does, just not on a global scale yet. AFAIK they're principally active in the parts of Eurasia close to Russia and the other former soviet republics.

IIRC it was not a border dispute but a dispute over some cross border power generation or some other industry. However there is also an ongoing dispute regarding pacific ocean access with Chile (this was actually one of Moraeles big public policy blunders during his last term btw, he way overhyped Bolivia's chances of getting a good ruling in the Hague).

Yeah I mean let's not forget, it's extremely important for Bolivia to maintain a good relationship with China and Russia. It's part of their participation in global capitalism, you choose the lesser evil (and Chinese finance deals are better than the US right now) always. No prominent leader in South America is just gonna go hard in public against them, even if it's objectively true they are part of a global system of inter-competing financial empire. The unfortunate thing is that it's not really viable imo for challenging global capitalism, it gives no path forward.

Also note though that Russia and China just don't have the capability to project imperial power like the US does. They can at best do it to their immediate borders, so it's not like Bolivia sees the imperial boot of Russia like the Caucuses does. Bolivia's most imperial territorial conflict is with Brazil (in fact there was some rather severe strain between MAS and PT over it like 10 years ago).

Because it's his fake publisher lol.

TBH, a bit unfair to the academics at least in my personal experience. While there are certainly a bunch of navel gazers, there's also bunch of labor history and other people that are very active around the country. However most aren't very prominent, and don't want to be big organizers anyway.