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:
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Learning Obama and Trump both supported the corruput authoritarian president in my home country.
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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:
fash -> radical centrist -> lib -> commie
The vast majority of my home country is drowned in reactionary beliefs, and if you are young and impressionable and you cant figure out what this dysphoria thing is you can get sucked into some less than pleasant ideologies. Then you can realize, that you are now 15, and have to act grown up so you start moving towards the radical centrism, free market, science, fuck SJWs stuf. Then you figure things about yourself have a crisis, realize you have been a terrible person, and surrounded by terrible people, so you kinda start listening for a change -> Then you transition, listen to a couple of podcasts, work in corporate environment, and realize that those commies had a lot of very good points.