I'm asking this in good faith.

Background: I am very leftist, card carrying DSA member, etc.

I remember being angry with Bernie for not immediately decrying the genocide in Gaza but it seems he's completely flipped and is one of the few people in Congress speaking out against the US's support for Israel.

I think it's highly likely that he was influenced by fear of reprisal from AIPAC. He even mentions how AIPAC torpedoed two primaries for members of "the squad".

Anyway, I like Bernie mostly. Is there still a genuine reason to throw him out like a baby with the bathwater?

I recently heard Obama talk about the "circular firing squad", where perfect is the enemy of good and progressive forces tear each other down for the smallest ideological differences.

I'm hoping to hear from a few voices in lemmygrad and hexbear on their thoughts.

Edit:

Maybe I asked the wrong question. I hate Democrats, possibly more than I hate Republicans or Trump supporters. At least the Trump supporters I could write off as too ignorant, undereducated and manipulated to know better.

I joined the DSA, donated, did phone banking, went to events, and should be more involved but sometimes I can't be.

What is the call to action? What can I do? If there were socialist candidates locally I would absolutely vote for them but at the presidential level I have no other option but to vote Democrat if we want to stand a chance at preserving democracy. For my own mental health I have to have some faith that there are some mainstream voices that have a prayer of a chance of pushing the Overton window to the left.

If this is just a thing where I must present two faces, one true one where I roast libs for being horrible and another fake one where I have to have a soft voice and try to gently move my lib friends towards sanity, then that makes sense too.

I just felt hopeful for the first time in years that the US could be slightly better than the dystopian shithole that it is.

Edit 2:

This is the forum for being true and telling it like it is. Even if I like some parts of Bernie that doesn't mean that hating the rest of him isn't true as well.

I really like Bottles. I also tried Lutris for Battlenet which worked really well.

I don't know all the differences between them though.

I'm desperate to find a mod or standalone device like a track ball or track point that can be comfortably mounted near the right half of my Ergodox Moonlander. So far I've seen people buy the Thinkpad keyboards to mangle and remove the red track point nub.

With that number of cat toys it makes me think you really care about your kitty.

We spoil ours as well.

Spot on!

Thanks!

It gets thrown around a lot by people who don't know the first thing about Marxism.

I'm a card carrying socialist so you think, with the communities I subscribe to, I would have seen some Tankies commenting, but I've yet to run across any Uygur genocide or Russian apologizing so far.

It really makes me mad when people accuse the maintainers of Lemmy of being Tankies when all I can find are very based essays they've written about socialist philosophy.

Edit: Just to be clear, I won't tolerate any Russia/China apologism. My account being from Leemy.ml means I still see content from the people most likely to be Tankies. I'm always willing to admit I am wrong if someone makes a compelling argument. I've just been silent on this topic since people started complaining and this is my first real push back. I don't want the Tankie slur applied to anyone who doesn't deserve it.

Thanks for this!

Gigachad

Thoughtful take! Ditto.

Obsidian is so so good.

I don't even mind to pay for their sync service to support them. You can even encrypt your vault (notebook) with your own key.

Dude it is absolutely an EPA report, the chemicals are all named with their IDs, and ProPublica got experts in the field to corroborate the data.

What more do you want?