Ok but is it really a true House mod unless it insults my intelligence and then calls me a slur when my armored divisions run out of supply on the Russian steppe?

As someone who was in the Navy, your friend is right.

I've burned things in my backyard without a permit before. Does that count?

I'm actually surprised given Sanders' fairly pro-NATO, pro-Ukraine stance and willingness to work with Dem leadership that he doesn't get this more often from leftists who usually excommunicate anyone including politicians they liked at one point for having similar views.

She's mostly alluding to Sanders being pro-NATO and pro-Ukraine.

It really just does come down to appearing genuine. Most people have incoherent political views. Sanders appears genuine so his more left wing views come off as more normal than Kamala who has more vague platitudes and feels less genuine allowing the public to fill in the gaps with their worst fears

It is happening, again (positive)

As long as you don't ask leftists about JFK, hippy woo woo shit, or don't ask too many questions about what they specifically believe about the CIA and the drug trade, yeah pretty much true.

And they’re already averaging a decade or two older than that!

"Oh, I opposed everyone who opposed Assad, said anyone who didn't like him was a warmonger or jihadist, implied all the causes of Syria's instability were everyone but Assad, lied about Assad's warcrimes to lower support for intervention against him, but I never SUPPORTED him." - Aaron Mate probably

Median Voter: "Well if he was actually as bad as they say, they would've called for his arrest, prevented him from running, and he would've gone to jail. So he can't actually be that bad I guess."