I’ve been on Lemmy for about two months and there is a good amount of left-leaning folks here. I definitely consider myself in the left-wing category. I hover somewhere between a bit liberal, a bit socialist, and a bit of a commie, but absolutely no authoritarianism.

Hello, not the wrong place to ask at all.

The Singer Heavy Duty sewing machine is one of your best choices if you decide to get a more recent model. Newer sewing machines are notoriously built like crap (which i personally think is done on purpose to try to screw us over so that we will give up and buy retail clothing), and the Singer Heavy Duty just works like a proper sewing machine. You can sew thick materials. For example if you wanted to repair a hole in your backpack, you could do it with this. I tried using a cheaper “beginners” sewing machine and it lasted about a month before the needle got messed up. I’d been using pretty light material too. It was in 2020 and I was attempting to make masks at home. Managed to make two before the stupid machine gave out. The Singer Heavy Duty machine is easy to use, it’s just more sturdy.