trots were a lot more common ~30 years ago or so. swp (socialist workers party) was big (for an american communist party) when i was a kid and in true trot fashion ended up splitting into a number of nominally active and defunct parties. PSL actually comes from that lineage via the workers world party who split from swp. these days socialist alternative had been fairly active though they don't come from the US swp tree. Kshama Sawant was a city councilor in Seattle under SA though i believe she also did a split along with a faction of that party. trots in general are still a going concern pretty much everywhere but with the frequency of party splits and the lack of the USSR as a foil you see where they get the reputation for factionalism and being smallish newspaper/book club orgs.

i think to your first question there's some accuracy there but, taking off my hexbear hyperbole hat, social democrats are common enough even if they don't have the terminology for it and social democrats with neoliberal characteristics aren't exactly uncommon anywhere you find social democrats. democratic socialists being social democrats is common enough to be a thing but it's not a given and for some people this is a sort of intermediate stage. online is whatever, but Communist is a loaded term in the US when you're interacting with the waking world where it's much more rare to hear used as a descriptor and usually not without some meaning behind it. on-the-ground anarchists who use communist as a descriptor are usually anarcho-communists who work within mutual aid and bloc circles, ml and trot leaning people will usually have some sort of theoretical development even if it's nascent or piecemeal. in the US those people are of course rare but that goes back to what I mean about 'communist' being a rare descriptor offline for a variety of reasons.

as a fellow grass toucher i always appreciate your takes on organizing and appreciate and agree with this excellent internet post.

but then my son will see it on our shared jerk off tracker

would be more resistance, and it also encourages the transphobic parts of the 'lgb' communities to participate in erasing us before society turns on them.

this is the end result of devaluation of the humanities. Dunning-Kruger is overused on the internet but freaks like this are just a massive, massive, glaring example of it

color revolution of usa incoming

allen dulles currently pleading with satan for a day pass

skynet but it's a racist chatbot

this is meant to be an in for adult care bans as well

Sec. 3. Ending Reliance on Junk Science. (a) The blatant harm done to children by chemical and surgical mutilation cloaks itself in medical necessity, spurred by guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which lacks scientific integrity. In light of the scientific concerns with the WPATH guidance:

(i) agencies shall rescind or amend all policies that rely on WPATH guidance, including WPATH’s “Standards of Care Version 8”; and

(ii) within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) shall publish a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion.

(b) The Secretary of HHS, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, shall use all available methods to increase the quality of data to guide practices for improving the health of minors with gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion, or who otherwise seek chemical or surgical mutilation.

and

(b) The Secretary of HHS shall promptly withdraw HHS’s March 2, 2022, guidance document titled “HHS Notice and Guidance on Gender Affirming Care, Civil Rights and Patient Privacy” and, in consultation with the Attorney General, issue new guidance protecting whistleblowers who take action related to ensuring compliance with this order.

the fact that it's not an organization works even better for them, now anybody they want to arrest is a member of 'the local chapter of antifa' and subject to the extremely squishy definition of 'domestic terrorism'

(5) the term "domestic terrorism" means activities that-

(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;

(B) appear to be intended-

(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;

(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or

(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and

(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States

the reverse Dullesification of the capital class and the MIC, these fools don’t make the kool aid but they do drink it by the gallon