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:
Was apolitical and into conspiracies for a long time while disliking the status quo but lacking actual understanding or a way of critiquing it. In school a teacher showed my class the third Zeitgeist movie which introduced me into anti-capitalist thought and looking at things systemically. While I was anti-capitalist, I still was into the anti-sjw shit for a while unfortunately. Fortunately, I never got sucked into any of the truly awful shit because I at least had a vague understanding of how capitalism influences things to keep me grounded, which stopped me for even humoring garbage like Peterson that blames everything on the person. The anti-sjw community continued to get more and more ridiculous so I was already on the way out until I had some type of anxiety attack or something due to real life events. I watched that series of Anita Sarkeesian videos to distract myself before moving onto Contra, Philosophytube, and Peter Coffin. I think I found the Chapo sub through breadtube which helped me understand more which led me here, where I continue to learn slowly.
