No more replies, but your second comment is also well-written, so there's that.
I salute you for doing your best do deal with idiot Compatible Leftists who admit they barely disagree with liberals :rat-salute:
I don’t fully agree with you about Sanders. I may be wrong but he strikes me as somebody who is in favour of socialism, but knowing that he can’t achieve socialism in short time, is trying to be pragmatic. He won’t manage to create a world ruled by the workers in his lifetime but he makes efforts to improve the lives of workers within this one.
God fucking damn it. Sanders did campaign on legitimately demsoc policies in 2020, but if you look at virtually everything that he has done before and since, as well as some of the other things he has said during his campaign (disavowing socialism outside of the Nordic model), he is very clearly a socdem at best.
The whole fucking point of socialism is that you won't get there by taking incremental steps from liberalism.
Absolution doesn't exist. You've done a hell of a lot more than most of the people here who can only pretend to have moral purity because they do nearly nothing at all. You've actually helped the world and many people in your life in what for them was likely to be a life-defining way.
I know I'll never talk you out of your guilt, but I think you should feel proud.
Lolita is pretty plainly anti-pedo. More than likely, he just got a version of the book with an abominable, sexualized cover and just leaves it on his shelf.
It's something everyone does if they are competent (and frequently even when they are not). The interesting part is how it demonstrates they aren't discussing social squabbling but an irreconcilable ideological difference with the anti-imperialist "tankies".