• GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    If he’s more extreme than the MAGA crowd then how would that explain his democrat past? That’s such a radical change in political ideology over such a short time.

    He was probably terrified of project 2025.

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      4 months ago

      If he’s more extreme than the MAGA crowd then how would that explain his democrat past? That’s such a radical change in political ideology over such a short time.

      half the people here were generic centrist libs in 2016 and turbomaoist anarcho-tankies with dolphin characteristics in 2017

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      My guy have you never been 17? You are like an empty bucket waiting to be loaded with ideas. He was in highschool at 17, graduated, no indications he went to college, and does what for the next 3 years? Works a deadbeat job and possibly hangs out online a lot?

    • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      According to public records, he registered as a Republican in 2021, and voted as Republican in 2022, before Project 2025 was even leaked to the public. I don’t know why a chud would be terrified of Project 2025 unless he was undergoing a political change of heart again, or was a closeted queer person who realized what it would mean for him. It doesn’t seem very likely to me.

    • IceWallowCum [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      “Ideology” is not a fixed thing, specially in unstable times and with the internet around. This is a confused person experiencing material decline with access to guns and internet forums, and that’s probably as deep as it goes. It only gets confusing if you think it is supposed to make sense on it’s own (ie. the whole analysis begins and ends with the parties and this one individual, nothing else). This is why marxists talk so much about “material conditions”, which is what makes nebulous political phenomena make sense

      • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        I was 17 in 1999 and 20 in 2002

        1999 me and 2002 me were sooooo incredibly different

        honestly makes me wonder about people who didn’t change a bunch from late teens to early 20s. like, that’s the time of your life you’re supposed to be changing rapidly and becoming a totally different person as you separate from your family and become an adult – was your childhood just that awesome and leftist or were you sheltered or what