These are getting lower and lower effort so I figure I will join
More or less the same for me. I'll put some effort in:
Were you always to the left of your family's views or were there specific moments that began shifting your ideology?
As I said to Windmill, I went through an Ayn Rand libertarian girlboss phase in high school, which was very embarrassing.
First thing to break was actually gays are fine, then came actually it's probably good to not be (personally) racist, but I was stuck on "the market is good and if you don't have explicitly bigoted laws the best people will rise up and that's a good thing" for a while.
Big tipping points were when I realized how fucked up the foreign wars are, and I thought the dems were against those, then under Obama I realized they weren't, which I think is why I was like "well I guess the least bad thing u can support is libertarianism". Then the Bernie campaign happened and I was like "wait what that's a thing? There are other political beliefs u can have?" and it kinda snowballed from there.
Five apples are in a basket. How do you divide them among five girls so that each girl gets an apple but one apple remains in the basket?
But more seriously what was you're younger political views like?
You'd have to cut the four apples into fifths but that would be dumb
I just kinda repeated stuff my parents said about welfare people being lazy and gay people being gross and unnatural. When I was a teen I started realizing that gay people were fine, so I rebelled by becoming a libertarian Ayn Rand girlboss.
:07: to the Ayn Rand girlboss to antifa :meow-anarchist: super solider pipeline but for real glad you rebelled and made it to the left.
Alaska sounds terrible because I hate the cold, and it's like 80% men or smth. But if we're sticking to states I've been too, probably Georgia just because it contains Stone Mountain, which my parents took us to and that sucked.
Taking your kid to Stone Mountain
That's a rough family trip :cringe:
Can you recall a time where your political beliefs then caused any sort of harm between you and someone close like a friend? Like a fight you dug in too hard into?
Nothing comes to mind if I'm being honest. As a commie I've talked shit to lib friends for being libs but I was super shy and non combative as a teen
