I was an unquestioning left-liberal until roughly 2014, btw. A lot of what I talk about is me explaining how I got from there to here. "AMA" if you want to Reddit-out with me on a rare non-anti-social moment
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lmao, this is very fun but also impossible to keep up with. Several questions about my initial red-pills, I will try to answer that one in this main thread, but the gist is "I finally understood they were lying to me"
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So 2014 was a weird period where a lot of what is now known as the "Successor Ideology" or Wokeness was sweeping across every sub-community If you believed in liberalism, it was clear they didn't. This would require infinite characters to explain, but if you were there, you know
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That's how I found Scott Alexander: he was the only one mounting a liberal defense against it. Also 2014, Ferguson. Me, I looked up police shootings, to try to own the cons. And what I learned was that police shootings had nothing to do with race, at all.
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When I learned that the media was just outright lying to me... it's hard to explain what a shock that is, if you trusted the media all along. Because then you might start wondering what else they're lying about. That's a big, big redpill. No going back from it.
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Someone on here wrote about one of the hate hoaxes of the minute - "mainstream libs are people who read about this and a million other stories like this and never see the part where the story falls apart the next week"
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