I don't think people are downplaying them, what you're replying to is good healthy advice. Also Lemmy skews left and modern leftists tend to take a harm reduction stance on drugs and speak very openly and non-judgementally about them.

How "healthy" it is to attend holiday gatherings with your family depends entirely on your family's chud ratio.

If being a realist means compromising your values before negotiations even begin and calling that strategy then yes that is going to be very poorly received.

We didn't finish the job and that's why we're in this mess. We left all the petty tyrants that rule over our workplaces alone and they put democracy on a leash.

Not where I grew up it wasn't.

The corporate media would obfuscate the socialist character of the revolution and call it an anti-communist revolution.

I went normie > libertarian > liberal > socialist > anarchist. I've been on a journey. In a sense my viewpoint now is a synthesis of my initial instincts and what I learned since. Thesis: libertarian, antithesis: socialist, synthesis: anarchist.

Because the basement dwelling Nazi is trying to imply that Russia should be an ally because they're fascist.

My compost pile will appreciate those things more than my colon will.

Sam Altman lamented in an interview where he was asked about the RAM supply shortages (that he is partly responsible for) that it's terribly inefficient for "a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM" to be sitting in people's personal computers and suggested it would be much more efficient to centralize it all in (his) data centers where it would be more fully utilized (charged by usage at a rate that he sets, of course).

Corporations don't have ideologies, only financial incentives and strategic marketing.

I do see a problem with dumb people following rich people, which is why I'm a socialist. I don't see Hasan as a leader, I see him as a comrade. Socialism is not a poverty cult, the rich can be class traitors too and it matters where their money came from and if they're honest about it. Hasan also puts his money where his mouth is, donating to campaigns, mobilizing his audience to campaign, funding and fundraising for causes like the PCRF, and delivering aid to and platforming Cubans suffering under US sanctions. Anyone who consistently delivers materially to the working class deserves the benefit of the doubt.