First off, sorry for the troll post earlier. I was copying things I saw liberals actually say that I thought were extreme and evil. Sometimes I have trouble conveying sarcasm online.

I have been a fence sitting progressive type my whole life. I disliked the dems but still supported them every time. I didn't get to vote (ballot issue and I left the country). Done with this shit since last night. They claim they can be racist and screw poor people because it makes them more electable. It's a lie. Socialism all the way. And not that bitch-loser progressive dem-soc or whatever tf. I want it all baby. Eat the rich. Equality/equity for EVERYONE is the only way we can survive (in terms of elections AND the world).

Much love to y'all, fuck kamala, fuck biden, and fuck trump. fuck bernie too for not trying to run even if he wouldnt have won and for supporting the genocide for far, far too long.

To anyone reading this was there one thing that changed you or was it a long term thing?

  • Beaver [he/him]
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    17 days ago

    It was a slow burn for me.

    The first major turning point was Obama's assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, and the way that liberals just accepted it and moved on. I had an understanding of liberalism as fundamentally being the good guy protagonists of the story of America, and I could not square the circle in my head. It was the beginning of a major reorientation in my mind about whether the actions of the Obama administration really matched up with the professed values on the liberal movement.

    The second major turning point was working in a really heavy industry factory job during the late Obama and early Trump years. I worked with a lot of people from very different backgrounds from me, and it really made me face my own internalized bigotries about people from rural areas, and those with a lot less education than I had. I think it finally helped me exorcise the remnants of shitty techbro libertarianism in my soul and actually try to become a better, more compassionate person.

    If you are compassionate, and you are curious, you inevitably end up discovering certain things about the world marx-hi