First, A lot of the far-left authoritarian users are in other instances, like lemmy.ml. Those communities are easy to avoid and users from there easily identified.

Second, I can only guess you’re talking about Harris when speaking “a communist and a known war monger”. Speaking as a former libertarian Republican (who left the party when Trump took over), Harris isn’t communist or far left. That’s 100% right-wing propaganda. America’s Democratic party is pretty conservative compared to liberal and leftist parties in Europe and isn’t that much to the left of the pre-Trump Republican party.

As for the known warmonger, I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Could you imagine if the presidential candidates and their VP pick had to play Overcooked together for a few hours?

It wouldn’t even have to be a competition on score. You could learn so much about them so fast - their communication, ability to adapt, and how they handle frustrations.

If people want this to be acted on, then Dems need to win.

Oh, absolutely.

Both to campaign on and to act on, unfortunately.

I think there’s a big difference between them making the small (but good) progress with legislation they’ve done this term compared to making climate a part of their campaign and bringing it up all the time. Idiots on the right will attack opponents on anything, but currently, I imagine most of the population is put off by the “she’s gonna ban ur meat and stove!!1” weirdos. Sometimes not engaging is the most effective way to keep bad arguments out of the public sphere.

Plus, there’s so much disinformation from the other side that you’re apt to lose voters that consume any amount of that crap.

If something doesn’t energize your base and it makes you lose votes from outside your base, it’s a net loss to campaign on. It seems that climate change is currently one of those issues.

I have no idea either. I’m guessing it’s only an “issue” because Trump (and therefore Fox) won’t stop talking about it.