people who actually get shit on neoliberal policies are the kinds of people we should be reaching out, not some shithead named Dave Bavelhoff who owns a jetski repair shop.
people who actually get shit on neoliberal policies are the kinds of people we should be reaching out, not some shithead named Dave Bavelhoff who owns a jetski repair shop.
The chud-to-leftist thing seems overhyped anyway. Could've sworn we had a survey here not long ago where we asked what our political leanings were before we became leftists, and it was like 75% lib and the chud % was surprisingly low.
It's probably just the demographic of this sub, we (understandably) chase out bad opinion havers. I was a chud before I became a lefty.
It's not, it's very rare and everyone who has been part of organising irl knows this. But it happens.
Couldn't that be a demographic bias too? (like living in a lib city?)
No, it's not a common thing anywhere in the world. The people who turn to the left are usually people whose beliefs weren't completely diametrically opposed to begin with, most of the people who care about things are progressive libs already before they become leftists. Like I said, it's not like it doesn't happen but it really isn't that common. However it is somewhat common for these people to support some left wing causes every now and then and that's when it is most important to try and get them on board.
Because everyone online is obviously similar to me and people in my circles, I assume we were all middle-class white millenials who identified as either left/liberal or socially-liberal-fiscally-conservative until either random curiosity or a growing awareness of the gulf between the world society promised and the world observed prompted a first real attempt to engage with politics in a meaningful way.
My family is mostly white, middle class anti-semites. My little sister is possibly redeemable, but my grandparents are liberals, their kids are both Fox news chuds, my cousins are mostly apolitical/libertarian, one is an outright nazi, another is a single issue anti-abortion bro because he can't get laid and his first girlfriend was an evangelical (he was kinda raised that way too, his brother is the nazi). My brother's a "South park has the best ideology" moron. Been trying for 6 years to get him to see the light, but he always just reverts to "nothing really matters and it was probably the Jews" but pretends like he's joking.
So we exist! Definitely the exception though.
I was raised chud, then went libertarian, briefly lib, and finally leftist in about a decade. I've seen tons of people similar to me, though possibly biased in noticing that.
Places like r/stupidpol are rightfully looked down on here, but that doesn't change the fact that they're a useful on-ramp to leftism. That wasn't my particular path but I see it posted often there.