It’s ironic that I grew up conservative and anti communist, but just seeing the pointless suffering my family had to go through working brutal blue collar jobs just to support us, having every student pool in for school supplies because the teacher was broke and so was the school and also many individual student, and eventually working manual labor myself for a few years made me more communist and despise loyalty to the fuckers who cause this.

Unironically, if the US was one of those socdem European countries that liberals love so much while ignoring its exploitation of the global south, I would’ve grown into a casual liberal who supported his country and company. I suppose I have to thank the Great Satan for helping me realize the woes of our world and not falling victim to being comfortable with exploitation.