Voting for the lesser evil when I was like 18
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thought andrew yang was kinda cool, threw a couple bucks his way (like he was a street entertainer or something, not real support)
I used to be confused why punk songs in the 90s would criticize the President. It was Clinton! He's good, right!? He's not bad like Bush or Reagan!
I was a naive little liberal in those Bush years.
I used to regularly listen to true crime
Out of all the liberal media obsessions (Harry Potter, Ted Lasso) this is the one I don't get. It's just so grim and horrible hearing about people like the green river killer or Ted Bundy. Last Podcast on the Left has been the only palatable way for me to hear about that stuff, because they very clearly understand the dynamics. Most of the victims being vulnerable, invisible populations and the perpetrators being cis white guys. Also police incompetence and racism.
I think I've said this on here before, but there is such a vast gulf of difference between true crime trying to prove someone is innocent and true crime just describing horrific events that I think they should be treated as two separate genres. One of them is morally good.
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No lie. I did too. I watched countless hours or Rachel Maddow. And used phrases like the radical left to distance myself from commies.
correctly predicting the joe biden presidency in like 2015
I liked and supported Bernie Sanders as a non American back in 2016.
I also voted for the DA once back when Mmusi Maimane was their leader.
I was a cop for Halloween when I was six back in the early 90s. Easily most regrettable decision.
9/11. I was in gradeschool but yeah. For about a year or two I made excuses for the war on terror. I still think about it sometimes.
Being a radlib anarchist for like 20 years.