Republicans denying basic facts in the oughts. Watching the Democrats burn Sanders. Seeing Trump turn the country into a nightmare. Vaush explaining what a cooperative is. Each event pushed me a little further.
My family didn't want to "spoil" (financially support) me, because what if all those rags to riches tales are all true? Then in college it bit me in the ass really hard, because some fuckwit in Hungary decided that to combat unemployment of young adults, mandatory internship time will be required for all college degrees, except the system is horribly abused, and without the necessary connections you'll be paying 1-2 months worth of salary, so you can work for half a year for free, which is good because after that you might be able to work for barely above minimum wage, which isn't even enough for a rent in Budapest, so I need even more connections to share a room with someone else.
Then I found a channel on YouTube called "Libertarian Socialist Rants".
There are so many things but I really need to say: Republicans
As I started paying attention to politics, I started noticing patterns. And they’ve been getting more extreme over the years. It’s easy to say conservative positions sound good, and it’s easy to say all politicians are cynical self-centered liars with no intentions except amassing power and wealth. But if you’re paying any attention at all, you see Republicans far worse, far more blatant lies, far more corrupt and it isn’t even close.
Then I come online and see Republicans trying to justify absolute shitty behavior, hold themselves above the law, govern by obstruction. They used to say they had goals, a foundation, beliefs but I’d like to see them act constructively for their constituents with those beliefs. Please. Meanwhile people start trumpeting a case of Democrat malfeasance and other Democrats are at the front of the line to see justice done. Sometimes it can be difficult to maintain cynicism.
But then we come down to my vested interests. In a strong believer in education, science, technology, investing for the future. One party has not just given up, but actively obstruct across the board
Hell, Arizona Republicans just passed a law in the senate to ban any attempt to mitigate climate change or increase city walkability. But both sides, vote third party! /s
It's an extremely good, easier read. Don't let it intimidate you. I've given it to people from all ends of the spectrum who have given me raving reviews after. It was a textbook for a Politics of Latin America course I took a decade or more ago.
While the excerpts released by the Pentagon are a useful and not misleading selection of the most egregious passages, the ones most clearly advocating torture, execution and blackmail, they do not provide adequate insight into the manuals' highly objectionable framework.source
The educational system. Then seeing how the judicial system works and how it's no different from how "justice" and punishment is meted out in the educational system to further the lies of "merit", "hard work" and "intelligence".
Being right smack in the middle of the Investment Banking Industry in the 2008 Crash and after that and seeing how those who did the worst shit got rewarded and everybody else got to be squeezed to pay the bill.
Before that I actually believed the "merit" bollock from Neoliberalism.
(It's more than that, but that certainly brough me back as a thinking adult to my younger leftie roots).
I used to upload stuff to youtube, mainly for friends to watch, and I got false copyright claims on every single one of them. I concluded that YT does not want me to share videos with my friends, so I stopped.
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