Share yall's journey over here. Here's mine. TLDR: apolitical -> chud -> lib -> based commie :sicko-laser:

Was mostly apolitical until the culture war shit of 2016 and I got sucked into anti-SJW youtube. Naturally I developped the standard reactionary views (systemic racism isn't real, offensive = funny, gays are weird, etc).

Then I went on 4chan after seeing a funny video about them trolling Shia LaBeouf, and being edgy I naturally hit the "politically incorrect" board. I knew they were edgy and I had experienced racism before but the shit on there was something else to say the least.

After that I started questioning my views and realized how cucked it is to be a reactionary minority. At this point I was a lib, cuz fuck rightists but Communism seems silly.

What made me swing left is:

  1. Learning Obama and Trump both supported the corruput authoritarian president in my home country.

  2. Taking econ and having cognitive dissonance between the lessons and real life. If the profit motive rewards benefiting society then what's up with climate change? If "supply/demand = cheap price" then why does my mother have to ration her medicine every other month? Etc etc.

Then I stumbled on a Parenti video and everything clicked. Thanks Parenti :michael-rosen:

  • redfern45 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Raised in a generally conservative home; felt the need to be a republican in high school. Became a lib in college. Liked Bernie in 2016 but considered voting for Trump in the general (I didn’t). Realized after the 16 election that the Democrats were basically pointless. Liked, donated to, made calls and knocked doors for Bernie in 2020. That was my last stand. Read Lenin in 2020 and in 2021 I’m reading mao. I live in PA so I’ll vote for fetterman in the senate race but I’m kind of done with voting. now any family get together I just get accused of liking trump because I didn’t vote for Biden. Good times