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What topics have you taken a 180° turn on? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My family are mostly Democrat voting liberals and I identified as one for years. When I was in 5th grade I spent more time with my Fox News-watching grandparents and became a Republican for like a year or 2 and became an apolitical lib for a while. From like 2015-2019 I was a Bernie bro who had some objectively shit takes. The biggest 180 I did was probably on the sex trade. I used to be for it as a horny teen like “huh? Did someone say SeX?? Well it’s all ConSeNsUAL so why cockblock someone from getting some PuSsY?” Obviously now I realize that’s a disgusting sentiment and that most people in the industry are not happy and would rather do anything else. Just because a few are happy with their line of work, it doesn’t make it right to force so many others into a position where they feel abused and humiliated or threatened. “Legitimacy of industry” in terms of prostitution always means lining the pockets of abusive pimps (physical or anything else) who will use the opportunity to get rich and usually fund illegal markets (source: Look at Nevada). Enough about me, what topics have become more clear to yall after becoming a communist? I could probably list a few others but I’m interested in seeing what yall say.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Beliefs about Quebec and Ukraine. Very different concepts I know but hear me out. As someone born and raised in the worst province which is also the rival of Quebec I had some weird beliefs. I wouldn’t say they were extreme or anything but I was incredibly misinformed about their history and the separatist movement. While I am certainly no expert on Quebec, comrades here and elsewhere have helped educate me and changed my uninformed view. Now I honestly believe its one of the better provinces.

When it comes to Ukraine, I definitely didn’t have a full picture about what was happening and I wasn’t super extreme on it anyway so I was better off than some. I like to give myself a bit of credit due to me being sceptical of the wave of support for Ukraine compared to what other countries get (like Syria and Palestine). When the war first started I was hella confused as I had no idea about the conflicts before so it seemed very unprovoked. My dislike of Putin (his queer phobia is a big one for me) didn’t help but I wouldn’t say it clouded my judgement either; for example when people on twitter were accusing him of being a pedophile I was quick to refute that (in my head as I refuse to engage with weirdos on twitter). I wouldn’t say I supported Ukraine, as I was against sending military equipment and funding from the beginning, but I wasn’t as educated on the matter as I am now. Seeing footage of Zelenskyy in gear “on the field” vs Putin in office made me sort of root for Ukraine but not really; again, I was heavily against sending money and equipment. I’m having a hard time explaining my perspective on the issue but it was different as to how I feel now. My “support” didn’t last long at all as I was resentful fairly early and exposed to why this proxy war happened in the first place. The amount of photo ops (like the VOGUE magazine fiasco) and money being spent in the wrong places got me to open my eyes and look further into the issue. I honestly believe this war was one of the reasons why I discovered and joined Lemmygrad (I wanted to see how GenZdong felt about the war and long story short I finally joined the Grad because Reddit was not it).