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

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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

to be fair to myself I was sixteen and like a day later I had the brain break that sent me leftward

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

oh god I also remember in 2016 I remember thinking "i mean it would be kinda funny if trump won" on election day and when he did I half-sincerely believed for like a day that I manifested it and was self-flagellating for the entire week internally because I thought I had wrought neo-naziism unto the world or something. I was 13 and hadn't killed my solipsistic streak quite yet dafoe-horror