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What was your most lib moment before you were radicalized (or at all)? (hexbear.net)

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I'll start

This is embarrassing but I cried when SHillary lost to Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Manufacturing consent same, also the Shock doctrice and Jakarta Method. Finding out how much of what I think I know is actually bs and finding out about the Chicago school of economics and neoliberalism. The George Monbiot Guardian article about neoliberalism and how it fit into my own lived exprerience from the 90s was a huge step towards understanding for me personally.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I'm optimistic that the pipeline of reading that's:

Extremely critical of capitalism and the U.S. empire (but silent on/dismissive of AES states), followed by
Parenti

Is the fastest way of turning a lib into a leftist.