

I listened to his long form interview this weekend on “The Daily” / NY Times. He’s a smug, overconfident POS. He kept saying how great he’s done in the past leading the party to gain seats in the Senate, etc. And how he’s the one who knows what to do.
First of all, GREAT FUCKING JOB, Chuck. Your leadership has led to the Republicans taking control of all branches of government. Wow, I’m really impressed by your strategy. Secondly, you acknowledge that this time is different, but you want to rely on strategies you’ve used in the past. Way to think outside the box.
He also was saying some really weird stuff about antisemitism. Like, it’s ok to criticize the Israeli government, but if you call someone a Zionist, that’s antisemitic. And that Hamas committed atrocities (true), but basically refuses to say that Israel is revisiting those atrocities ten times over on the Palestinians.
He overall sounded completely out of touch, unwilling or unable to adapt to a changing political landscape, and just completely complacent and ineffective.
So, it’s beyond time that he needs to go. Just like Pelosi needed to go.
I will say that I’ve only had Lemmy installed for a few days and I kinda feel the same way.
Mostly because I see the HUGE potential that Lemmy has, but right now, for the most part, it’s very quiet here. Maybe I haven’t found the right communities yet, but most posts I’m seeing don’t get very much engagement or discussion going. It feels like a ghost town here, which is sad because Lemmy feels like it has so much potential.
Lemmy is also confusing for non-techy users. I’m a software dev, and I find the federation part annoying and slightly confusing. It seems like every server has a ‘technology’ community, for example. Which one do I follow? I don’t have time to look at each one and see which has the most active and fun discussions. That’s the advantage that Reddit has: for the most part, it’s really easy to discover really active communities.
IDK, I just wish there was a way for Lemmy to feel less segmented, easier to discover actually active and fun communities, and had more users. I won’t leave, but I’m not feeling warm and cozy here so far.