He's a self-described democratic socialist, while being a social democrat. DSA has actual democratic socialist members, just not ones that would stoop as low as to run as a democrat. Anyone who's had the displeasure of attending a few DSA meetings can see the wide spectrum of ideologies represented within it, more than half of which can hardly be called anything remotely socialist.
The nazi's were self described "socalists" too. Let's not take people at their words on these things.
Edit: The point being made here is not that nazi's were socialist (they weren't) nor is it to paint Mamdani as a nazi. The point is him calling himself a socialist means nothing.
I've not checked Livingstone, but I did some digging and pretty much every medical site says it won't ship needles to my state.
The needles I did find are sterilized via E.O Gas and do have an expiration date. That bit of information was very helpful and I'll remember that in the future.
The only other thing I've considered is that potentially the needles are not surgical steel? But I don't have any particularly bad metal sensitivities either way.
Can't wait for the usual pleas at protests in 2 years: "Please bro, just vote blue one more time, it'll work this time bro, Lenin would vote democrat! We gotta vote against fascism! Republicans would be worse bro! Please! Don't be an ultra-leftist!"
In the same way that your friend who drinks a couple beers a day after work is probably fine, you're probably fine spending a few hours after work playing games.
I vastly prefer/recommend stable LTS distros. There are really 2 main families of distros for this:
Linux Mint / Ubuntu LTS / Debian Stable (Ubuntu is based on Debian, Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS):
Basically endless amount of packages. Most people in the linux world have some familiarity with these so it shouldn't be hard to get help if you need it.
Rocky linux / Almalinux / RHEL (Rocky and Alma aim to be compatible with RHEL software):
For desktop systems people usually opt for fedora, but that distro does not meet my own criteria. Biggest reason you'd use these is for professional VFX software support. For whatever reason a lot of that stuff only has official support for this family of distros. Not sure why!
Get good at 1 of these families of distros. If you aren't vibing with one its okay to switch to the other. Both have more cutting edge options if you desire them.
Linux Mint is a community favorite and very much is built with a desktop user in mind, but I don't think it's unreasonable to subject someone to learning any of the others even if they are more server focused. Everything I listed has atleast 5 years of support! If your fiancee isn't super tech literate, you'll probably be the one doing a lot of the system maintenance so keeping those major updates sparse is a very good thing. And of course, if you don't wanna learn 2 different sets of tools, try and keep in the same family of distros.
Also, for desktop environment don't choose anything crazy obscure. KDE & Gnome are most common, Cinnamon & XFCE are less common but IMO fine. Venture into others at your own peril.
Transfer process depends on what you mean. Transferring your files will probably just take time. I'm hopelessly unorganized so for me backing stuff up takes a few days of combing through a bunch of junk and copying to a flashdrive or cloud storage. Other people might have more efficient ways of dealing with this though.
If you mean software Libreoffice is great local office software, SMplayer is imo a good media player, GIMP, Inkscape, and Krita got art stuff covered. We're also at the point you can more or less run most windows software on linux with enough fiddling, but that obviously isn't ideal.
Your biggest hurdle moving to linux full time will be understanding commands when you inevitably do need to change configuration of something with the terminal. If you need help there are usually forums, IRC, matrix, etc.
Socialist in words only. No socialist is running as a democrat. Plain and simple.