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I was assigned Communist at birth
LMAO this was me. Once the faith fell away, and once it was replaced with a humanist lens, there was only one rabbit hole left to fall into :hammerandsickle:
“fiscally conservative, socially liberal.”
Tons of us were, I think, so don’t feel bad about it. Fiscally conservative, socially liberal has been babby’s first alternative political ideology for the past 20 years, and I think a significant amount of posters here will identify as former libertarians. I know I do. I voted Badnarik in 2004.
this. i realized most people that call themselves libertarians don’t really give a shit about liberty at all, as far as it applies to people that are not like them. you can really tell by how many strain themselves into apologetics once the topic of how facist the police are and always have been arises. freedom to choose, unless it’s the brand of boot on your head.
A huge moment for me was seeing the concept of Intersectionality in action. My wife came from a poor background, I did not, however seeing her family struggle and then especially seeing my families reaction to it and attitude towards it definitely shaped alot. The intersectionality at least for me came from seeing the Documentary the “13th” when it first came out. I knew about racism and white supremacy but to just have it instantly “click” like that for me, started me doing a spiraling rabbit hole of “Why are the powers that be so racist”, which led to “Why do the rich hate the poor” and then I realized that there was an entire system in place propping all of this up, and that seemingly EVERY SINGLE PROBLEM IN the World seemed to related to Money, or rather a LACK of money. So many problems in the world all seemed to have a single root “Solution” which was to toss money at it, but that really made me realize that creating a system like that just further shines the light on how the system itself is the problem.
I think it was actually Trayvon Martin’s death that started it. I always hated cops and cop wannabes, but the reaction to his death on the right wing really woke me up to who I was palling around with. I still had chuddy aspects after that, I still liked shit like tumblrinaction for an embarrassing amount of years after that. When 2016 rolled around, I was callijg myself a pacifist anarchist because I had temper issues and I figured my natural impulses were intrinsically wrong and life was sacred and yadda yadda yadda (this cost me a friendship).
Then the Unite the Right rally happened and Heather Heyer got run over and it finally clicked entirely that the far-right was irredeemable. An embarrassingly long journey, but there we go.
