I advocated for gun control. ugh
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.
I used to be one of those "communism works in theory but not in practice" guys :grimacing face:
yeah but stalin holomodor gommunism bad heh heh updoots to the left.
- 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
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
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
"One day Google's gonna run the whole world and it'll be great!" My dingus levels were off the goddamned chart
- 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.)
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.
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.
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.
Fun fact about myself, I read Karl Marx cause I unironically thought Lenin was attractive and
He is objectively attractive.
While Lenin may have been objectively attractive, young Stalin was a whole other story lmao.
I blame Goldeneye for Wii
That game slapped though. Online MP was so much fun
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.
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.
I listened to the whole Micheal Cohen hearing as it aired because I thought something would come of it
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.
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.
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.
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 :)"
To be fair, I wholeheartedly support the categorical disarmament of white people, gamers, and anyone who owns private property.
Great leaders we've got, where probably the best one installed concentration camps!
