A comrade here proposed a theory that chud are easier to radicalize than libs so i decided to create this poll to get some actual data instead of speculating so that we may form an accurate theory
Everyone would instantly become true leftists if they were allowed to unleash their vital essences freely, you pig
I have diplomatic immunity so it looks like there's nothing you can do, pig
Exactly. The question is about ideology before radicalization. None of us are radical.
I was a Sargon of Akkad atheist dipshit in middle school. In high school I graduated to liberalism but it took at least three years for that "women be talking hurr durr" to fully extinguish within me. Then I saw Castro, Mao, and Che posters in my 12th grade English class and I was like "hmmm who are these fascinating characters?" That then led me to Chapo. My teacher even taped a photo of Lenin on the outside of the classroom door. I asked him about at the end of the semester and he flatly told me he was a ML.
My teacher let me hang up pictures of young Stalin in her classroom in high school, never asked much about her ideology but by the end of the year Che and young Mao had joined him. The wall of revolutionary baes laughs at the volcel vanguard. Hornyposting irl is praxis I guess.
I'll always remember that I owe my radicalization to my senior year English teacher's acting career not taking off. Looking back something tells me it was what radicalized him too.
Massachusetts. Nobody really cared, but he had Gandhi, Einstein, and some others up there that made it discrete. The Lenin photo was def ballsy tho.
Conspiracy connoisseur, and I gotta say, since Epstein was fucking merced in broad daylight, so to speak, I'm kinda back on that shit. Seriously though, conspiracies are a good point of entry because, barring alien pyramids and bigfoot, almost all of them have a kernel of truth, and that kernel is capitalism is a fucking terrible system.
You know, I never actually heard a plausible explanation for the free-fall collapse besides explosives, I just noticed that "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" became a meme, as if that was enough to refute all the fairly obvious questionability of the official explanation. I never even heard the idea that the buildings or planes were empty, never got that deep I guess. TrueAnon did a 5 part series on 9/11 on the week of this year.
See, I don't think I ever got into right-wing 9/11 circles, I don't remember any of the documentaries I binged mentioning "arabs" or muslims at all, just talking about how no skyscraper has ever collapsed from fire, before or since, and the building fell at free-fall, which unless I just don't understand some shit, only happens when the bottom falls out, not when the top collapses down onto the rest. I recommend the TrueAnon eps, they're lefties, and are still pretty sure the official story is bogus, so I feel a little justified in remaining unconvinced.
It's good shit, I think Brace is one of the funniest motherfuckers ever
Ooooh we should do a watch party of Loose Change. The documentary that started them all. Who’s in?
That was literally the first thing I ever watched that was even remotely political.....started them all indeed for me
I think it was Fahrenheit 911 for me. In theaters. I remember the bodies hanging from the bridges. And my father covering my eyes a second too late.
They just couldn’t find osama for all those years. How convenient.
I also believed in the antisemetic shit when I was a teenager. Started getting into the race realism bullshit too and fell for the imperialist propaganda. Literally never interacted with a black person on a personal level until I was 17. Made some friends on a photography forum and made some offhand remarks that alarmed them so they called me out on my bullshit. Eventually became a liberal but one of the aforementioned friends was a socialist who tried to radicalize me. Of course being a liberal I thought the Manifesto was the communism book so I thought I'd read it and refute it easily because my head was still in my ass but ended up agreeing with Marx. I'm cringing rn thinking about teenage me.
I don't think most people's early conception of political beliefs are comparable to what someone believes after fully thinking through this stuff and possibly reading some different sorts of political theory.
Politics often starts either as support for a specific set of policies a la Sanders or in opposition to something (like Bush/Obama's wars or great recession programs). And often relate at least in part to what sort of beliefs your parents have.
The vast majority of contemporary US leftists come from ancestrally democratic households.
You have to realize that's not the norm right? Youth are trending left of their parents.
I was lib as they came. I watched MSNBC. I watched SNL even though I didn't even find it that funny. I was a Hillary supporter in 2016 and cringe when I think about some of the shit I said out loud back then: "fRaCkInG iS gOoD" "oBaMa'S dRoNe wAr iS kEePiNg uS sAfE."
Anyway Hillary lost and I read a few books about American imperialism, read some Marx, and started listening to Chapo. Now I'm a Socialist.
I can't identify myself with anything on the list, before I became a Commie I was a Kirchnerist/Peronist, Social Justice good but NEVER changing the basic fundations of Capitalism, in other words, I was in support of exploitation by Capital (even though I had NO IDEA that Capitalism was exploitative).
A bit after I was going through reactionary-militant atheist route, my conversion to a "Fascist-lite" was still in its infancy when I made a clearly Islamophobic comment in a group chat years ago and a good friend of mine confronted me. That left a mark and I started to talk more with this guy about Communism, as he is a Communist himself (Well, actually some sort of Anarchist but the point is that he is anti-Capitalist). And yes, Red Army Choir played a HUGE role in my radicalization, the aesthetics of Communism came before Theory in my case. Also TYT, Kyle Kulinski and Jimmy Dore, among others, further pushed me to the left (with varying degrees of course). Today I'm even involved in organizing, I assist, whenever possible, our local Socialist Party (Trotskyst) because Left Unity good.
To my eternal shame and disgust I was a full blown free-market libertarian.
This poll is biased because only liberals would care about this
Why only liberals would care about this? This helps us decide which group has most potential for radicalization
Let me rephrase. Former liberals are more likely to jump at the chance to fill out a survey about political opinions.
I thought I was left wing but I didn't know there was a letfter wing.
I was radicalized by the comment section of the Jenny Nicholson video on the book "Trigger Warning"
Was kind of a liberal hipster, lol.
Bruh, I'm not a mainstream liberal, I'm more into this obscure guy - FDR - you've probably never heard of him. Anyhow, his stuff's pretty good - you should check it out.
that's the closest thing to what i was, too. the snowden NSA leaks in 2013(?) was what got me to realize the US government is not good, and then i slowly moved more and more left.
