In desert heat. Humidity is a thing.

Possible if not likely, but also being an anti-Harris leftist indicates the sort of person who doesn’t touch grass anyway.

Though, I had seen handmade anti-Harris sign in Chicago once shortly before the election. “A vote for Harris is a vote for genocide” is what it said. I suspect that if there are some of those people do touch grass at all, they are aware of how incredibly unpopular they’d be in most progressive spaces if they openly stated they advocated against and refused to vote for Harris and would keep very quiet. Thus cowards.

Yes they are.

One can hate capitalism and also hate Stalinists. The “good vs bad guy” ideology is just projection on your part.

I could nitpick and state I’m not a liberal as well but whatever tankies call every other non-tankie leftist a liberal so who fucking cares.

I simply avoid actively educating myself on current affairs now. It still seeps to me through internet and casual socializing osmosis. I let the news come to me.

I’m done being the guy in the office/cafe/bar who brings up politics unless I’m really desperate for a topic of conversation.

That said, people do seem to bring up politics to me now, which has been fairly disarming. I was always the initiator before November 5th. Normies are reacting now that shit is negatively effecting them. I’ve still not encountered any anti-Harris lefties IRL only online. Fucking cowards.

Fascism and Stalinism are not the same.

People who unironically support Stalinism in the modern day are red fascists. Whether they are technically the exact same thing or not isn’t a meaningful discussion considering the commentary that Sanders is offering here. He is specifically operating within the context of modern American politics. Something average academic/armchair/larpy leftists are often completely fucking incapable of. His main use of analogizing Stalinism with Trumpism is the Cult of Personality not that they are literally the exact same thing. It is exhausting that this needs to be explained.

Sanders use of the term as a political slur wrongly directed at Trump confuses the issue, and ultimately gives capitalism a pass for its own crisis.

How does it give a pass to capitalism? Sanders himself would agree that capitalism contributed to Trumpism.

This is a deliberate falsification that is calculated to confuse political consciousness and hinder the development of revolutionary conclusions.

This is a level of paranoia suggesting actual brain damage, seek medical attention.