AaronEvery time I see Trump in the news, my politics take another step to the left.
Arx@hosford42 I find myself more on the left just by standing still and watching the world lurch to the right.
@arx There is that, too. But I am definitely moving to the left, as well. I think just observing him, in all his glorious repulsiveness, makes me continually re-evaluate everything I've ever believed, and also makes me want to put as much distance between myself and him as possible.
I wonder just how many people, like me, have moved from the right or center to the left in reaction to his continued public display of what the right is actually all about. By contrast, I think the shift we see towards the right in the public sphere is mostly just those vile sorts of people becoming more vocal and open about their fundamentally reptilian inner nature.
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Yeah, I definitely remember that I a center-right teenager. Politically speaking.
And today, slightly over a quarter century later, I'm suddenly a radical leftist, while being a professional making 6 figures and being part of the owning (in a small way) class?
Ah right, I believe in things like human rights (what a communist concept that the Brits and Americans formalized after WW2) and consider potentially a fellow professional from a different continent as interesting or
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more so than some local idiot. Hint because I believe that the life of the idiot is as worthy of protection as mine does not mean that I have to spend time with him or listen to him. Reading about obscure mathematics or algorithms is way more entertaining than some idiot recounting how he's better than others because he was born in the right place or with the right citizenship. Discussing it with fellow nerds even more fun.
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And if someone thinks that I care about my fellow nerd's skin colour, plumbing or intimacy preferences.
Ah, but obviously the idiot that has problem to understand an exponential function, but speaks with the same suspect is superior. Right, pseudo science for racism/fascism the foundation for their idea of a super race.
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