I ticked all the boxes in high school. Ironic-but-not-really fascist, incel, anti-LGBT, anti-abortion, pick a reaction, really. Now I’m happily married, father, Kinsey-1, reading theory, with growing class consciousness and looking to build solidarity with those people that a worse version of myself once dismissed as lesser or ungodly. It took leaving home, developing positive and loving male-male friendships, and being told that I was good enough and worth love irrespective of my accomplishments for me to start to develop the capacity to love others in the same way. Those who have traveled a similar path, what did it take for you?
pretty much your story but then i realised i was trans. however i also thought all along that communism sounded like a good idea in theory
I can’t even remember how my opposition to communism worked. It was like received knowledge, inviolable and eternal. Gommunism no füd.
the incredible cognitive dissonance you get to see when asking a lot of unreflected people what they think the “communism” they hate is
The only coherent parts I have been able to suss out from mainstream view of Communism are “not Capitalism” (where capitalism is usually confused with the concept of trade) and “uniformity”.
I took a turn to the left because I personally love large public infrastructure projects like metros, and those aren’t something that can happen in a very capitalistic society. I feel people should also be able to access quality education and healthcare, no matter their circumstances.
I’m really glad I somehow dodged gamergate. It would’ve been like crack if I’d been online enough at the time to pick up on it.
Please don’t take this as negative, but what’s it like taking estrogen as a cis male? It’s the first time I’ve come across such a concept.
I joined my local succ dem party at 18, after 6 months of brain rot I started to feel the sleezyness slowlly getting to me, I snapped out of it and Lenin started to make a lot of sense.
