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.
I used to think that all ideas, even potentially harmful ones, should be free to spread so they could be defeated in the “marketplace of ideas.”
Me too.
I later learned that was a mistake because the best ideas don’t usually win, only the ideas with the most immediate appeal for the audience, no matter how short-sighted or destructive. I’d be like a supermarket expecting vegetables to be its biggest sellers instead of candy, energy drinks, and junk food.
That’s a good analogy.
Also, me too. I was the libbest of JS Mill-Keynesian libs and thought that if only we could secure liberal values/rights, we could instigate a welfare state for all and keep it, this time. What a muppet. My 180° shift began when a Marxist friend said, but redtea, how will you convince everyone else to voluntarily pay high taxes to pay for it all?
I learned that no one actually believes this
I used to believe that