I advocated for gun control. ugh

  • asaharyev [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I still believe in gun control.

    You should be barred from owning a gun if you've ever been employed as a police officer, for example.

  • Hog [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I used to be one of those "communism works in theory but not in practice" guys :grimacing face:

    • fart [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I mean this is essentially what was taught to me in high school

  • MasterCombine [he/him]
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    4 years ago
    • Obama was good
    • Capitalism was the best system we have/communism could never work
    • The Democratic Party cared about people

    Edit:

    • America was good
    • The troops deserve respect
    • Not all cops are bastards
    • goldsound [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's amazing looking at just your list and how strongly this used to represent my beliefs and how I'm now staunchly on the opposite of all of them. Maybe there is some hope for all us libs here

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think being "anti-conservative" when you don't know any alternatives forces you towards a lot of these conclusions, I found myself tied into a lot of these knots back in the Bush/early Obama era just because I didn't know any better

  • AnalGettysburg [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "One day Google's gonna run the whole world and it'll be great!" My dingus levels were off the goddamned chart

  • PurrLure [she/her]
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    4 years ago
    • America is one of the best countries to live in.
    • It's all the Republicans fault that we're stuck in wars.
    • Gun control (but I didn't even think about it for cops).
    • Obama was a good president.
    • The last recession was due to regular people spending too much on their credit cards.
    • The banks were too big to fail, therefore Obama had to bail them out.
    • As long as you study hard in school you're guaranteed to make at least 30k annually out of college. (This was before I got into the workforce, lololol)
    • If you're poor then it's probably your fault.
    • Churches not paying taxes is totally normal. (Back when I was religious and thought the transition from conservative to liberal was radical, HAH.)
      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        America is absolutely one of the best countries to live in and be a citizen of

        Sure, unless you live in one of the places that has some of the worst poverty in the world.

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        4 years ago

        Ah yes I love living in an amusement park for rich psychopaths where everyone else is a blood bag, workers rights are nonexistent, and protest organizers keep accidentally shooting themselves in burning cars.

  • Earthbadger [she/her,any]
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    4 years ago

    I believed;

    • America is a cool place to live
    • Just vote™
    • I dead ass wanted to be a police officer cause I wanted to keep the peace and help people
    • Not all Cops™
    • Rich people have worked for what they have but should help more
    • Compromise
    • There are no far-right people left
    • People are the only racist things left
    • SocDem
    • Communism has killed a bajillion people and only works on paper.
    • Obama
    • Russia are still communist and will take over the world. (I blame Goldeneye for Wii)

    Fun fact about myself, I read Karl Marx cause I unironically thought Lenin was attractive and was trying to figure out why "he fell for the bs that was communism". I am not joking.

    • neo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Fun fact about myself, I read Karl Marx cause I unironically thought Lenin was attractive and

      He is objectively attractive.

      • Earthbadger [she/her,any]
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        4 years ago

        While Lenin may have been objectively attractive, young Stalin was a whole other story lmao.

      • Earthbadger [she/her,any]
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        4 years ago

        Oh don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore the game. I've actually been playing through it again during quarantine. But god, the anti-Russian and communist sediments are strong. I'm having a great time and then there's a voice line that throws me off.

  • Jorick [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I was a fucking lib at 16. I believed :

    • in meritocracy
    • in patriotism, even wanted to become a fucking cop at some point (gendarme to be exact, bc you know, being French and all)
    • in electoral politics
    • in pacifism
    • in compromising and respectability
    • rich people worked hard enough for it, they should just pay a little more taxes
    • communism was tried and failed, sounds good on paper but will always fail
    • liberal democracy will mean fascists will always lose, and that progress will never end
    • that a better world would be possible with this system
    • that I'd live a happy life

    I'm now nearly 24, and I'd beat the liberalism out of my old self with the communist manifesto. Ironically, what turned me to communism was memes and Hearts of Iron 4; watching the world get poorer and miserable helped me to understand we have to burn this motherfucker down.

    • PurrLure [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Oh wow, you're giving me 2017 flashbacks of self cringe.

    • DreamingVirgo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I listened to the whole Micheal Cohen hearing as it aired because I thought something would come of it

    • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The Mueller investigation was kinda a big deal given that things like this rarely happen and that sessions stepped aside and had a special prosecutor investigate the president.

      The report and Russian collision stuff was always cringe.

    • PaulRyansWorkoutTape [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I'm not gonna die on this hill but it was and how horribly the media and democrats mishandled it turned it into a joke that it shouldn't be.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I used to believe that everyone wanted the same things and it was just a matter of getting everyone to the table to talk.

    I also used to be a pacifist.

    • buh [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I thought about the world like this for a long time, and I think it was from the way they teach history in school (in the US). So many events ended with something like "mistakes were made by both sides, but then they got together and talked it over like adults and lived happily ever after :)"

    • AnalGettysburg [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Great leaders we've got, where probably the best one installed concentration camps!