Personally, I was a left liberal for all my life, but had kinda looked into the abyss of anti-sjw and gamergate stuff, like watching Sargon and Bearing, but hadn't really subscribed to their beliefs, more putting them on as background chatter.

Things changed when I read manufacturing consent, listened to Chomsky and found Chapo at around the end of 2018, at which point I found myself as more an ancom, but Chomsky's talking points on Leninism and the USSR was never as cogent and didn't make as much sense as his other points, so I held skepticism about my beliefs then.

Reading more on theory and history, and looking more into different left tendencies via channels like Rev Left moved me over to be a Marxist, as it made the most sense to me in explaining the current and historical situation. Currently making my way through Lenin and looking more into historical ML states and I've found that I'm pretty comfortable as just a Marxist with ML tendencies rn.

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    This thread jostled an absolutely horrific memory in my brain of going through a brief anti-Islam phase in high school, at one point having a teacher talk to me after class after submitting an essay about Islam being too conservative and authoritarian and thus incompatible with liberal European values, meaning I managed to be racist, reactionary and a lib at the same time. That teacher probably thinks I went on to be a huge dumbass : /

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Thanks :thumbs up: I'd completely managed to suppress memory of this period, and now I feel incredibly embarrassed and ashamed. The funny thing is, I'd considered myself a liberal and a feminist since middle school, and didn't see myself as at all racist- if I'd been on Reddit at the time, I probably would've been upvoting the shit ouf of those endless posts thirsting after photos of Afghani or Iranian women in the 60's

        • claz [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Self-reflection and self-crit are virtues that you've shown, comrade. I hope this post hasn't triggered anything too major in you

          • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Nothing too crippling, just the memory of that specific interaction induced extreme delayed cringe and embarrassment. I'd been in that teacher's classes for a couple of years and she'd clearly become concerned I was suddenly falling into some right-wing rabbit hole

    • Lava [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      For real.

      The only reason a smaller number of Christian extremists are doing petty bombings and shit, is that they already own the world and more crucially, already own the nukes. They can already just say so-and-so has oil and commit genocide on a massive scale.

      We have the same phenomenon as ISIS here, and that's Apocalyptic Christians digging deeper and deeper into upper levels of government. They want to start a nuclear war to kill almost everything on the planet. Wahhabis don't even want to do that.

      They are also trying to expand Israeli domination of Jerusalem because they think they are tricking the Jews into killing themselves. Once the temple gets rebuilt, a lot of evangelicals are going to get reallllll fucking restless.