If they're common and normal then the left shouldn't have been working on them since 2016.

For as long as capitalism exists, the left should be working on creating or maintaining strike funds.

f we're talking about the DSA specifically, they have one. It doesn't even make since as a suggestion there either. So the person you're defending either isn't talking about a strike fund, or they are and they don't know they're common or that the DSA already has one. Either way, it's not my problem they're wrong.

Not every DSA branch has a functional strike fund, which again should be obvious, and I don't think counting on national to do everything is a good strategy. I think our friend is talking about strike funds, does know that they are common, and does know, at least more or less, about their status in the DSA, and none of the advice you and I are talking about is contrary to that.

They probably could have used clearer language, though.