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:

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I read The Jungle in middle school, and that trivia nugget about people misunderstanding Sinclair's anticapitalist intent was the seed that rooted and grew in my brain for the last 20 years

    9/11 happens, I will always find it absurd that the fuckin' Dixie Chicks getting ostracized for saying "war bad" is my first explicitly political memory

    Never understood the appeal of cultish patriotic displays or black friday tier consumer spectacles, but otherwise was pretty apathetic. Had a couple friends who were gay, hated the creeping anti-Arab racism

    all of the above led naturally to being repulsed by the GOP, and then Obama was just kinda "yeah he's better, but what's with this treating him like the sun god incarnate shit," still too apathetic to give a shit about Ron Paul or whatever

    Bernie's message really resonated in 2016, blood-run-cold horror when we elected the genocide gameshow president, but also rapidly being repulsed by the dems as I learn how much Bad Shit was actually holdovers

    started listening to podcasts, PSA and Chapo at the same time at one point, their wildly different reactions to McCain's death finally snapped whichever neuron was still making me think dems were worth anything

    it's been downhill ever since :agony-turbo: