I advocated for gun control. ugh

  • 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.