197
I was a sh.itjust.works user
(hexbear.net)
We can be radicalized
Granted I only used sh.itjust.sucks because it was the first instance recommended to me. However, it was during the brief time when hexbear was a boogeyman to all that I was exposed to true leftist thought. It took about a month or two of reading yogthuos memes before I read theory
Anyway I thought I'd give a hopepost, I genuinely was a turbolib
I fell into the youtube antifeminist mysognist pipeline as a kid, I grew out of it pretty fast thankfully but I definitely hurt some people with my words in those times. I've worked to make it up to them where I can but it fucks with my head pretty often. I was still very liberal after I grew out of it but not bigoted (as much as a liberal can be). Shockingly it was actually reddit that pulled me out of that pipeline; after I realized I was bi I sought out queer communities on reddit (which I had only just downloaded like a month before this) and found 196 which was pretty far "left" for me at the time. Then I used lemmy and found hexbear. Fuck I really have been raised by the internet, dammit.
I was gonna go somewhere with that but I am high and lost my train of thought. Basically I'm glad y'all exist and post as much as y'all do, genuinely helped me grow as a person.
Hexbear as a haven and rehabilitation of problem childs is a good bit
I am glad that you found your way comrade. One piece of advice, never stop learning. Never feel "finished".
lmao i could have written this about myself and it still would be true
I too have questioned my gender, still haven't really figured it out tbh
This seems to be a trend I've noticed
Glad to hear about your growth, shark fucker.
Holy shit were you shark fucker on 196 too, or like the "I follow shark ladies" account? Bcs I think I saw your posts and comments iirc and that account followed me I think
Lmao i was in fact sharkfucker on reddit as well ๐
If i followed you its bc i thought you were funny
Similar enough to my own story. I was never conservative outright, but definitely had my own biases being raised in a heavily conservative environment, then started identifying as liberal until I learned more, grew up, and read more.