I went along with MAGA and wore the red hat sometimes until about 13
Until the age of about 13, when I met some queer folks (I was straight at the time) and some people with undocumented parents, I wore my grandpa’s red hat at school. I was proudly against undocumented immigration and didn’t care much about the environment, though I was friendly with my peers and left-wingers, I just kept my beliefs and they kept theirs.
Well, that eventually changed. My grandpa became more right-wing, I became more leftist and now I am a proud leftist
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You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back, atheqtpie. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, atheqtpie?"
Let me tell you about my mother.
The reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umc9ezAyJv0
My bad, I am only 18 LOLLL
Whoosh
If the op is a kid....
I didn't read it until I was 30.... Still haven't seen the movies.
And I honestly don't know that I'd recommend it, certainly wouldn't to the average youth.
@op, he's referencing a "humanity test" given to people/robots to see if they are human in Phillip k dick's "do Androids dream of electric sheep" or in cinema the 'bladerunner' series
How were you allowed to wear a cap (that too a political one) in school? I went to a public school and we weren't allowed to wear caps or pull over our hoodies when inside.
Well i took it off when i entered at the beginning of the day, i should’ve said that
Do you remember some of your earliest misgivings about going along with your families beliefs? Things that made you go ‘wait a minute…?’
You figured it out earlier than I did. I remember “voting” third party in my middle school’s presidential tally because the republican candidate wasn’t “conservative enough.”
It’s easy to be shaped by the opinions of your family when you’re young — your brain isn’t fully developed and they’re your unit. Once you started experiencing other perspectives, and realized they made more sense, you changed. It took me until undergrad to realize my previous beliefs made no sense. Give yourself credit, and stay curious.
What was the thing that made leftism click for you?
When I saw what people were doing to the environment, how bad people were treating other cultures and LGBTQ+ people/minorities, and realizing I myself was being disrespectful when I thought I just had common sense and was "patriotic". Also, I turned out to be bisexual
Bisexual with a STRONG preference for women
Nice. So basically listening to your built-in feeling of fairness and decency instead of stomping it.
Felt any class consciousness appearing or not yet?
Still religious?
Not really
What…?
I think this individual cares to only discuss toes.
Why aren't you talking about your 10k hours of flatulence?
My flatulence speaks for itself.
He's on the edge of understanding, there.
Guess who's about to make footlovers10??