CW: The Guardian

spoiler

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/18/usa.dickcheney

2006 was part of the now dark ages we've been living in.

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    We couldn't have formed an alternate world view because we were being kept in a box where that view was simply not available. I wonder what changed it?

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      For me it was Trump.

      Here's how I became a leftist...

      1. Trump won. Mother of fuck. What the fucking fuck. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

      2. Trump's inauguration and "American carnage". Holy fuckety fuck are we fucked. Trump is going to be far worse than I ever imagined. Mother of god.

      3. Miscellaneous stuff Trump or his administration did or was doing in the few months.

      4. Sebastian Gorka. There's a Nazi in the White House! My god. How the fuck!... And as days turned to weeks - I realized Trump was not going to fire him or ask him to resign. Also the democrats ignored Gorka. They just pretended he didn't exist. Even the Jewish dems. Even worse - the media still had a "Trump will become presidential" mindset and they quickly lost interest in Gorka. Both the dem and media POV left me aghast, enraged, and very depressed.

      5. In r/politics (around April???) some CTH fan saw one of my many "There's a fucking Nazi in the White House!" rants and turned me on to CTH and James Adomian.

      Within a month or two I had a religious like awakening. I realized without a doubt the dems were going to do nothing at all to stop fascism. and that I should have become a leftist decades before.