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I wouldn't say cringy per se, but the most difficult takes for me to overcome were something that had resulted due to identity based politics.
Until I sat down and studied why are trans people being targeted, who are the organizations actually funding the hate campaigns, who was it that paid for the TV programs and the churches that broadcasted propaganda against those like me. I looked into who funds far-right governments across the globe. And sure enough it all leads back to the West. I looked into who funds far-right extremist groups that target those like me.
I figured that I'm just being used as an idea that's going to be thrown away the moment I outlive my usefulness and that there will never be real liberty without the end of Capitalism. And most importantly that sometimes to end Capitalism one must do counter-intuitive things that they don't want to do, or, as it's sometimes referred to as: critical-support.
A rather recent slam dunk on top of all this has been the book: Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? By Gabriel Rockhill
But the most cringe takes I've had were when I was much younger, about DPRK, everyone here already knows all of them I'm sure so there's no reason to repeat them, but it is embarrassing.