EricThePooh [none/use name]
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fyi the new url to use: https://hexbear.net/ppb
Kinda wild I didn’t end up a chud honestly. I grew up Christian, with a pastor for a father. I went to a private Christian high school in middle America (and looking back it’s pretty insane what we were taught and generally people’s beliefs). My saving grace was that my family wasn’t Evangelical, and very pro immigrant. Still conservative, but my dad was incredibly smart and morally minded. That’s led to a noticeable change in his beliefs over time politically.
I went out of state to college then with two other high school friends who ended up going through the same changes as me, just sooner. I rather quickly became a lib, helped a ton by going into fine arts (Trump helped a bunch too). I was still very skeptical of the Democratic party because of my upbringing which helped, but my two friends from college became Marxists at some point without me noticing. Likely during the 2016 Bernie run, where I was a passive observer but intrigued. I was then radicalized pretty heavily by them if just subconsciously since we did basically everything together. Now my brain is broken and I feel like left politics is the only thing I care about anymore since… well since it’s basically caring about everything and everyone