This is the one I'm most upset about to this day. The shit they tell you about Korea is just fucking evil. The most explicit, obvious example of brainwashing done across the West. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide truly believe that an entire country we fucking destroyed but which has recovered to a remarkable degree is just a self-imposed dystopian hellscape that would make George Orwell go "no, wait, this doesn't make any sense"
Only 4 legal haircuts and if the crossing guards drop their smiles in front of foreigners they're killed.
You can see the seeds of new DPRK nonsense forming in reddit comments even today. Reminds me of the wriggling mosquito larvae you find in a bucket of stale water.
Why don't I just log off, you ask? I don't know either. :shrek-pixel-despair:
i watched the entire first impeachment trial :ooooooooooooooh:
i called the offices of republican senators like "do you have no decency sir" :NOOOOO:
I thought my parents were naive and idealistic for voting green/PSL their whole lives.
Boy was I wrong, but now I'm the radical one my dad's checked out of politics and my mom has Qanon brain
Yeah my mom always had a bit of an affinity for new age quackery, but she did good work for causes like drug decriminalization and prisoner advocacy etc. My dad I think was mostly interested in such causes because my mom was, after they separated he just kinda gave up and went full :grillman: while my mom got corrupted by reactionary conspiracy theory shit on social media.
I spent 10 years being a Chinese gusano in the US. In fact if I end up getting walled after the Revolution I really shouldn’t complain too much.
To share a bit more, growing up gay in urban China was quite fine (literally never experienced open hatred or even micro aggression there), except I was made to think I had no future there (“future” = marriage aka suburban lifestyle) and my only future was assimilating to the US-led progressive liberal world order. Ergo I became a Chinese gusano.
growing up gay in urban China was quite fine
Just curious if you have anything else to say about your experience. No worries if it's not something you wish to share more about.
I'm gonna leave it at this - in high school I was sucked into 4chan culture. Obviously, I've been out of that culture for a long time now, well over a decade, but I have extreme shame when I think about how that cursed site affected my brain
I was on /b/ and /sci/ mostly. Please send me to the gulag :gamer-gulag:
“what is your most epic villain speech in your D&D campaign and why is it yet another fucking copy of Watchmen’s Ozymandias?” and “post your generically grimdark superpowered yandere-smiling-with-blood-on-face ‘futa’ player character picture” posts kept clogging the front page.
I have this memory of someone making fun of me because I couldn't find any copies of some RPG book, and all of the advice he gave was about browsing /tg/, which is a thing I did not do. In fact, I actively avoided 4chan in general.
I think my biggest thing was that I totally bought the Steven Pinker line of “the trend of all history is that before civilization things were a horrific nightmare and ever since things have been slowly getting better and will continue to forever.”
Edit: oh yeah, I remember I was very sure all politicians were corrupt and capitalism was kinda fucked, but also “communism is good on paper but doesn’t work because people are greedy” (not that I actually knew what communism was) and also “this system is bad, but it’s the best one we’ve got.”
I was a 4channer back during the Obama admin so I thought that "Let the f**s marry" was a fun edgy way to say something progressive.
I feel like there's a significant portion of the online left that had experiences with 4chan but broke away from fascism, I know I did
I don't even know if it counts as "broke away from fascism," since the 4chan of that era really was "progressive liberalism but we get to say slurs." I don't want to defend that position too much, since is and was dog shit, but I don't think it was fascist or proto-fascist or whatever. There was a concerted effort by fascists to take over the space, followed shortly by gamergate, before it became what it is now.
It was basically the foundation of the dirtbag left as we know it today :mattjak:
Used to be into moral relativism until I realised how bs of a philosophy it is and started thinking in a materialistic way. Like moral relativism is commonly used to excuse Nazism and slavery for one. Yet for some reason it's a popular mainstream view? Hmmm.
Also used to be really into hedonism and utopianistic ideals. To the point I would actually think that addiction to certain things was not possible and that the ultimate goal in life is as much pleasure as possible. Basically your standard "weed bro" type dude.
It would just be "radical liberalism" all the way down lmao
To be fair I guess that's where most of us started, as radlibs or social democrats
Outliers actually does a good job of explaining how success is largely a matter of where & when you were born and has little to do with merit. He should have ended the book there but instead he kept writing.
Dude, that's literally Socratic ethics. That's what Socrates thought of "moral evil."
My worst lib take was thinking we could simply innovate out of our problems and one day people would all just upload themselves into the future internet. I didn't really think politically until college when I read some Marxist stuff the first time.
