Just a heads up that Andreich and I are working on a collaborative post so no one thinks I'm dead or anything.
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There is no such thing as innocence!
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Hearing the Emperor's voice is a sure sign of mental integrity!
@Kratesis If you learned how to debate from reading T_D posts I suggest you quit while you're ahead.
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Alright knock yourself out, lets hear some rational arguments.
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That the implications of politics are serious, that was my position all along, like I said I probably didn't specify enough, but that's the claim you cant argue against.
I was in that generation of people who started paying attention to politics in the Bush years. Like a lot of people from conservative backgrounds at that time, I identified as a libertarian for a while, and voted libertarian in 2008.
My process of moving to the left was driven by my experience, and the experiences of those I grew up around, in the aftermath of the recession, so I would consider that to be the formative factor in my political opinions. The social stuff seems secondary imho, though I'm sure that's largely because as a white straight dude I didn't have much invested in the social justice movement to get into it, and I'm not nearly autistic enough for white nationalism.