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Anti-China and Doomerism. From around 2014-2019, I was a Maoist and I thought socialism was never to come back after the fall of the Soviet Union; and if it was, it was going to be too late. Thankfully, it was around that time that I noticed that China was doing a lot of really based stuff, including but not limited to its efforts in reforestation and installation of renewable energy. I gradually came to support China, I realised it has a grand plan for the future with which came to be on board and whose milestones it is meeting or exceeding, and with China's unstoppable rise my hopes for the world returned; we just might not be as fucked as I thought before. I don't know how I had been able to pull my brain through the war coverage of Donbass and Palestine had I kept worrying about China instead of finding solace in it.
Also, around the same time I went from criticising someone for watching anime to joining an anime club, and from failing analysis 2 to tutoring it