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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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[–] HaSch@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago

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