Personally, I was a left liberal for all my life, but had kinda looked into the abyss of anti-sjw and gamergate stuff, like watching Sargon and Bearing, but hadn't really subscribed to their beliefs, more putting them on as background chatter.
Things changed when I read manufacturing consent, listened to Chomsky and found Chapo at around the end of 2018, at which point I found myself as more an ancom, but Chomsky's talking points on Leninism and the USSR was never as cogent and didn't make as much sense as his other points, so I held skepticism about my beliefs then.
Reading more on theory and history, and looking more into different left tendencies via channels like Rev Left moved me over to be a Marxist, as it made the most sense to me in explaining the current and historical situation. Currently making my way through Lenin and looking more into historical ML states and I've found that I'm pretty comfortable as just a Marxist with ML tendencies rn.
Wore a red "Moscow University" sweatshirt in a buttoned down farm/military town in the Midwest. Read Russian history, Marx, and voted for HW in '88. Gulf War 1 happened, missed going by 22 lbs., got booted from my ROTC unit (family traditions to uphold) for being overweight. Thought being anti-war meant Democrats, was a Clinton supporter.
Sat on the lawn of the student union in '91 and pronounced "we'll be a Fascist nation inside 30 years." Nailed it!
Proceeded to help that happen by being a right fucking Lib. Oblivious to the damage I was doing because at least I wasn't a conservative...
Married, kids, career... Bush 2 was a nightmare of liberal outrage for me. Slid left but still believed in the system, voted Kerry. Shake my fist at those conservative bastards!!
Voted Obama. Watched the wheels come off. Everything. More drone strikes. Spinning up more and more and more war... I mean, I saw it happen with Clinton, but thought it would be better with Obama.
Got divorced. Then married my beloved Raccoon.
Then came 2016 and they put Hillary up. And I said, well ok... But then she said, "Universal health care will never happen, get over it."
And I was done. I took a look at Bernie's campaign and liked what I saw. And I watched the Dem establishment crush his campaign. And then I watched Clinton lose to Trump.
Then Trump.
And that was that I needed something. I read Marx again. Read Mao.
Then Chapo happened and I found it with the help of The Dollop.
Bernie was the compromise.
Biden is still a rapist.
it's covid season.
Raccoon organizes.
We serve 50 meals a day, three days a week to our local unhoused at a city park in our town. No contact, socially distant. No charge. Ever.
The cops stopped by to hassle and the first week they swept on Thursday morning before service.
But we came back. The cops didn't. The city stopped sending their "intern" to find out our per plate cost weeks ago.
We will beat them, because threepers don't feed you. Boogaloos won't feed you.
We are the intolerant left, we will not tolerate hunger in our town.
We will move among the people as the fish swims in the sea...
He'll yeah comrade, your work is necessary and an inspiration to all ✊✊
Anarcho-raccoonism gang. (I want that flair back dammit)