why dear god why must these memories resurface :agony-shivering:
I accept whatever punishment hex bear dot net decides for me :kitty-cri-texas:
If it makes you feel any better, I almost got an Obama tattoo after he won for the first time
Good thing I went with the timeless geometric patterns instead
Good thing I went with the timeless geometric patterns instead
this is what made me realize i don't want tattoos. Because you either go with something that becomes cringe in 5 years (I remember when chicks used to get playboy bunny and hello kitty tattoos in the 00s) or you go with something so abstract that it says nothing
or you get something political/sports-related that someone will stab you in an alley for having
I got a simple Saturn for a couple reasons (though it's a stick & poke). So far, no planetary scandals have made me regret it.
no planetary scandals have made me regret it.
wait until you hear about the time saturn devoured his own son
So far, I haven't run into anyone old enough to have had a dog in that fight.
Dunking on your former lib self is an extremely powerful sort of posting. :rat-salute:
Your punishment is to be pointed at by Lord Farquaad and as he calls you white
"Ah but Farquaad your majesty, are you not white as well? :very-intelligent:"
A non-insignificant part of my radicalization was learning about Paul's insanely racist newsletters, and realizing that some of the lolbertarian movement's most revered figures approved and/or authored a number of them. American Libertarianism is more white than fucking White Evangelicalism. As someone who was part of both worlds when I was younger, trust me on that.
Aww sweet, a self-dunking thread. Your punishment is to read all the other stories of former CHUDs. Here's mine,
I was both a EXTREMELY cringy lib from 3rd grade when I first learned what a politic is to being a rightoid at 6th grade because youtube told me feminism was when women oppress men as revenge for the past. Fortunately, I never went fash, but I did become a lolbert.
Then, on IFUNNY of all places, I saw a user, let's call him Daniel, who was a communist. I thought "look at this cringy SJW" and began hate-scrolling, only to find that a lot of his arguments kinda made sense.
Yes, the WHO says that trans people and non-binary are fine, and only an absolute DIMWIT would try to ad hom them by implying they are under control by teenagers on the internet.
Eventually, I ended up becoming a Syndie, but now I want to actually read more theory like Bookchin or Rocker. I read Kropotkin so I have some sense of what I want, but I obviously shouldn't believe something for no reason.
I like that it's kinda abstract so you sorta have to read into it. As far as dumb, blunder years memes go, it's not that bad. Could've been a rage comic.
Well since this is a shameful confessions thread, I'll participate
I remember being 8 years old and shooting up a picture of Saddam i cut out of the newspaper with my bb gun because he was The Bad Man the tv told me to hate. This was the 1st Gulf War btw
Also i was really into GI Joes. And i wore my dad's old marine corps hat
Real glad i didn't keep following the troop worship path, or i would've probably been a statistic in the war in Afghanistan or Iraq. Thank god for punk rock, weed and curiosity into leftist politics thanks to Hunter S Thompson!
I remember being 8 years old and shooting up a picture of Saddam i cut out of the newspaper with my bb gun because he was The Bad Man the tv told me to hate.
this but for a random professional sports league referee because he "made" our home team lose the big game. Multiple families were involved. American culture is fucking psycho lol
I seriously believed returning to the gold standard would solve the country's problems at like 12 years old. And became a Ron Paul fanboy from it. Why the fuck did I even care back then?
I remember buying a fedora but never having the courage to ever wear it in public. I shudder to think what dark path that hat would have taken me down if had unleashed that abomination.
thank the lord you were rescued from that fate, comrade
Maybe it was just a special interest? I dunno. American culture trains children to identify a unique yet non threatening aspect of their personality and magnify it to the point of caricature. Really prepares you for the prospect of commodifying you’re own identity
i was significantly older than 14 when I found and then shared this to fucking everyone I knew :what-the-hell:
Lots of us have gone through a cringy libertarian phase in our teens or early twenties. For someone who's white and has any generational wealth to speak of, it's almost a certainty that they'll have had it.
All the sweeter and more enlightening the progress of moving through it and having a more comprehensive understanding of freedom and the barriers to it.
Batman is a libertarian fantasy character so this actually makes a lot of sense, though probably not what you were going for.
If it makes you feel better, I was also a fan of Ron Paul, or at least sympathetic. If someone has consistently said they want to end drug prohibition, the death penalty, and foreign intervention, and is willing to vote against their party to do it, it's hard not to root for them a little. Just shows how low the bar was and still is for elected officials.
sorry to the rest of yall but my politics have always been perfect and they always will be
Same, but I somehow read the completely wrong message in all of them. I also somehow missed all the biographical info about Ayn Rand being a libertarian racist weirdo. I interpreted Anthem as a positive portrayal of a socialist revolution and Atlas Shrugged as a scathing critique of how stubborn capitalists are, that they'd rather shovel pig shit in the mountains than accept any amount of regulations. It took me until the Fountainhead, where the main character rapes a woman and blows up a housing project to understand this Ayn Rand person might not be normal.
