At what point did the final straw finally break?

  • join_the_iww [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    One memory that sticks out to me is, I was reading some comment thread about like unemployment or something, and somebody wrote a comment that was something like the following:

    "Republicans dream of a country where everyone is their own small business owner, but that's literally impossible to achieve because then there wouldn't be any workers. Capitalism needs workers."

    Suddenly a lot of things about the economy started to make more sense. I became a socialist not long after that.

    I think it was an r/politics thread, strangely enough

    • duderium [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      I’m pretty sure an r/politics thread I saw back in 2018 linked to r/chapotraphouse, which was maybe the most important factor in my radicalization. This is probably why r/chapotraphouse no longer exists and why r/politics is now so meticulously policed.