Full confession: I used to believe in The Mission. :surprised-pika:
To be more specific, I didn't believe in :my-hero: 's The Mission in particular, but I sincerely believed that government gridlock (yep, like I said, liberal take) was making space exploration impossible and that if any meaningful progress was going to be made in my lifetime, it would be by private industry. I wasn't particularly enthralled by any specific billionaire, but I had the cynical/deluded belief that "humanity must become an interplanetary species" and that absolutely everything else came second to that.
How about you, (hopefully) ex-libs of Hexbear?
I thought that you could bring change by individual consumer choices.
Buy fair trade chocolate, don't watch a movie in protest. That kinda thing. It's a delusion about the power we have as individuals.
I thought that you could bring change by individual consumer choices.
Buy fair trade chocolate, don’t watch a movie in protest. That kinda thing. It’s a delusion about the power we have as individuals.
I believed that, too. :liberalism:
not voting for Hillary in 2016. I have started reading more theory and realized that the correct ML position is to support Hillary in 2024
Okay so super long ago i was like 13 or 14, when I was raised by my extremely reactionary parents and I was exposed to 4chan on a very regular basis, I took "the bell curve" at face value and literally believed it. I even talked about it. I think i saw it on fox news when i was a kid or somwthing, but i dont know. My god I can barely think about it now, just makes me :cringe: so hard. Serioisly i wish i had never had this By like 10th or 11th grade I started to get into the libertarian phase (no, not pedophelia), where I was "socially liberal fiscally conservative". Had some banger takes like the government should privatize social security and stuff.
When I left my house and wasn't subjected to Fox News for 4 hours a night, I finally started having halfway decent liberal takes. I didn't like Obama because he didn't end the Afghanistan war, he supported Saudi in Yemen, he didn't succeed on Obama care at all. At this time I'm also exposed to some community radio stations that pull me quite a bit left. Start learning about the drug war, FBI bullshit in black communities, had a general fuck cops streak.
then bernie came around and I think I remember saying "universal Healthcare won't work" basically repeating fox news propaganda I mindlessly internalized from when I was a kid.
The very last ultra liberal act i did was something related to mueller.. I went to a mueller related protest, and some guy told me to read Anarchism Works by Peter gelderloos. I read that and fell into the leftist hole and have been here ever since. So, thank you to the agitator at that protest.
Your story gives me hope that it's possible to reach out and make new comrades, even now. :stalin-heart:
i was like "billionaires should pay taxes" and now I'm like "billionaires should be hit with axes"
I legitimately thought the Mueller Report would actually matter. All that fuss for fuck all.
Yep same, that was going to be the moment I would join with others and fight back. My god they milked that shit.
I want to acknowledge the level of trust this comment took to make
Surely Obamacare will lead to competition among insurance companies and lower prices for customers! (Me in 2013)
i kinda bought into that radlib Kaiserreich auth-com v. lib-com shit for a minute. when i used to like that mod.
got too much historical knowledge and gaming chops to like it now tho :soviet-chad:. only good hoi4 mod is Old World Blues dont @ me
When I was in middle/high school I was basically a positivist, I thought the highest truth was the scientific method and that the problems of the world could be understood as a matter of how educated and rational (or not) people were. You could solve problems by simply spreading the correct opinion, and the correct opinion is a thin veneer over verifiable scientific work.
As you can imagine, this method is how the very worst liberals justify their monstrous ideas, so I'm glad I took a break from that pretty early. But still... hoo boy was that some serious lib shit.
When I was in middle/high school I was basically a positivist, I thought the highest truth was the scientific method and that the problems of the world could be understood as a matter of how educated and rational (or not) people were. You could solve problems by simply spreading the correct opinion, and the correct opinion is a thin veneer over verifiable scientific work.
I had almost this exact same take, and it shames me now.
Positivism isn't so bad, just incomplete. It's the highest form of naive materialism. Russell and Carnap et al were all Succdems. But it does prevent further progress in a haze of "this is the perfect way to do an science!"
At least you avoided the ultimate in liberalism, the Falsificationist bro or the Kuhn paradigm guy.
Totally agree but I must admit I was definitely a falsification bro for a while
You could solve problems by simply spreading the correct opinion
this but with communism
