Asklemmy

2020 george floyd protests

even during protests about police brutality they did even more police brutality

it's never going to stop. the system has too many meaningless pressure valves that they've convinced people are actually valuable [writing a letter to a local official, voting (depending what state), clever chants during protests, etc]

Russia's invasion of Ukraine made me realize the fundamental wisdom of the saying "Speak softly and carry a big stick".

Four years under The Idiot destroyed any assertion that conservatives are trying to be reasonable. It's all just a word game to these people. And they think it's all anyone's doing, because they think that's all there is.

The most damning evidence for this is when right-wing bastards of the highest order get booted out for not playing the game. Mitt Romney was the fucker who wanted to "double Guantanamo." He's also now called a RINO, and he's running away with his tail between his legs, because he acted like we kept fucking imagining "real Republicans" were supposed to. He asked what happened to all the talking points he ran on... because he believed that garbage. Nah, Mittens: it was ad-hoc justifications then, and it's ad-hoc justifications now. (And he still voted to absolve The Idiot on most counts, the useless bastard.)

The war in Iraq. It was bullshit and everyone knew it was bullshit, but it happened because politicians forced it through. 9/11 was a horrific disaster but the war in Iraq that followed left me completely jaded.

The coup in Bolivia shook me of any demsoc liberalism I still had in me and made me understand that a worker’s movement can only be defended with force

9/11.

I didn’t think much about the dangers of religion and “faith” in general until then.

Finding out in primary school that other kids weren't poor and had all the shit they wanted while we sometimes had issues getting food.

The damn toilet paper crisis

Personal event: Dropping acid.

Everything I thought I knew about life, the universe, and everything was wrong.

The Obama presidency and how all flavors of western media acted like it was taking the US down a radical leftist path.

I stopped watching the 24/7 need channels. It cut out so much fear and paranoia that those channels thrive on.

That week recently when there were floods in every country except where there were fires in every country. That was wild.

The state murdering Fred Hampton.

Probably being on welfare for an extended period of time. It kinda beat the techno-libertarian out of me.

Most of my big internal changes were done through years of struggling in communities and therapy though

Finally seeing sense and not believing religion anymore changed everything.

And oddly enough, it all started because of an X-Men movie.

When two friends and me got punched on the street by robbers, i look in all directions now.

Unironically since I live in the imperial core and am from an ex-socialist country, but not old enough to have experienced it. It was the Trump v. Clinton elections where I saw what lib brain does to people.

Going through spine surgery at a relatively very young age, and all the suffering beforehand. Revealed just how fake the world is and just how superficial a lot of things are.

GamerGate destroyed my confidence that the mainstream media tended to get things right and pick the right side. That doesn't mean it is always wrong, but it is not always right either.